Clean Sweep!

The red wine-colored border and text portray the color of the human heart. The swirling gray background reflects the turbulence of the heart when sin is unconfessed.

Psalm 51 is King David's prayer to God after David's adulterous affair with Bathsheba and his subsequent murder of Uriah. David repented and cried to God for forgiveness. He pleaded to God for a clean heart and a right spirit within.

Want a clean heart and right spirit within? Pray the words in this verse to God. Cleansing hearts and renewing spirits are specialties of his!

A Prayer begins . . .

Our Father in heaven, hear our prayers. Forgive us. Cleanse our hearts. Renew our spirits. We rejoice in you and enjoy the shelter of your arms.

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Sigh Language

June Cerza Kolf's, When Will I Stop Hurting? Dealing With A recent Death, 1987, Baker Book House, pp. 32, 33.
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Category: Christian Living
Keywords: sighing, Joyce Huggett, breathing techniques, relax, release stress, grieving, high-stress state, anxiety, depression, fatigue, Baker Book House, Kolf, June Cerza Kolf

"The sighing stage that Joyce Huggett mentions in Growing Into Love is similar to the deep breathing techniques that are taught in stress management classes. It is a natural way to relax the body and release stress.

Grieving people are in a high-tension, high-stress state. Their breathing is often fast and shallow, thus not getting enough oxygen to their blood. Poorly oxygenated blood contributes to anxiety, stress, depression, and fatigue. Digestion is hampered. Good, healthy sighs can help to relieve and in fact make a person feel more relaxed physically and mentally."

SoAmazing Review: When Will I Stop Hurting? focuses on grieving as a normal and necessary process for those dealing with a recent death. Kolf explains the stages of grief and offers practical advice to those in need.

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The God Blessed Them!

Gary Smalley and John Trent, Ph.D The Gift of the Blessing and The Gift of Honor, Inspirational Press, 1998, pp.24, 25.
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Category: Christian Living
Keywords: Hebrew, Old Testament, blessing, Bible, creating, blessed, truth, curse, God, Inspiration Press, Smalley, Gary Smalley, Trent, John Trent

"The Hebrew word for blessing in the Old teatament is one of the most important words in the Bible. It was used over 640 times in the Old Testament alone . . . .

The word for blessing pictured God's oiginal plan for mankind. Do you know the very first thing God did after creating us? In Genesis 1:27-28, we read, 'So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him, male and female he created them. Then God blessed them . . . ' (italics added).

What an encouraging truth to know that we were created for blessing! That is God's design for us. Yet, as we'll see later, some of us have grown up under a 'curse,' not a blessing. In Old Testament thought, there was nothing worse than being under a curse. But as powerful as a curse might be, there was one thing stronger . . . a blessing.' "

SoAmazing Review: In The Gift of the Blessing, Smalley and Trent team up to trumpet blessings, and they do it well.

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