Wigs Word of God Today 3-17-2013
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How to ignite the Child of God by righteousness in Spirit.
The concern of the flesh is death, but the concern of the spirit is life and peace. For the concern of the flesh is hostility toward God; it does not submit to the Law of God, nor can it; and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you are not in the flesh; on the contrary, you are in the spirit, if only the Spirit of God dwells in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to Him. But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the spirit is alive because of righteousness. Romans 8:6-10
“Master, the one you love is ill.” When Jesus heard this He said, “This illness is not to end in death,* but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Our friend Lazarus is asleep, but I am going to awaken him. So the disciples said to Him, “Master, if he is asleep, he will be saved.” But Jesus was talking about his death, while they thought that he meant ordinary sleep. So then Jesus said to them clearly, “Lazarus has died. And I am glad for you that I was not there, that you may believe. Let us go to him.” So Thomas, called Didymus,* said to his fellow disciples, “Let us also go to die with him.” John 11:3-4, 11-16
Ezekiel 37:12-14, Psalm 130, Romans 8:6-11 & John 11:1-45
The horizon of life beckons us to know God’s Will living in the Spirit gaining all that belongs to Christ “because of righteousness.” Amen! We die the death from dwelling in “stench” from sin that Jesus waited two days to prove He could raise the dead as well as rid the horrendous smell of rotting flesh. “I am glad for you that I was not there, that you may believe.” Even after following Jesus the Disciples still missed the point sometimes Jesus often answered in Parables.
We too find this reality in our lives when we allow the race of life to push aside the spirit for sensations opting for flesh crumbling the foundation of God’s being. The “Law of God” ask us to rid our “hostility” towards ridding our ability to please God separating us from His grace of Truth. You too can be “alive in righteousness” by the life you lead in His Spirit killing off the sin of flesh and fantasy. We must be willing as “Thomas, called Didymus” said, “Let us also go to die with him.” Are you willing to die for Jesus to be alive in righteousness? Or will you rot in the flesh of death? Amen.
These last three days I’ve been in Orlando attending the American Montessori Society 2013 Annual Conference titled, “Sustaining the Light in Every Child.” This is my first for a vocation I undertook almost five years ago and it surely won’t be my last. The desire and determination I have witnessed in countless people across the world seeking to teach tolerance and tenacity while engaging children to be tender and total as Beacon of Light for the world has reenergized my desire to love each and every child as a Light of Hope for the world. Today my poem reflects the keynote address of Dr. Edward Hallowell titled, “Igniting Every Child’s Full Potential- The Five Steps of Excellence.” I pray you’ll enjoy this amazing journey of every child written in rhyme revealing how a child connects to life through connection, play, practice, progress and recognition.
We ask in prayer: Dear LORD, we pray today live in Your Spirit ridding the stench of death in sin. Day 5 of a Novena of prayers for New Jersey Emmaus AND Pope Francis I. Praying for Kairos. Prayers for Dr. Cruz-Peluca and Tom K. Greg Bishop has constant prayers. Day 6 of a Novena of prayers for Wayne battling cancer. LORD, grant us strength of purpose that we may faithfully bear our crosses each day. In Jesus Name we pray. Amen.
Yours in Christ,
Thomas Cruz†Wiggins
†Spirit led God inspired Christ fed†
Romans 8:28
In Honor of Dr. Edward Hallowell- His Life in the Five Steps of Excellence
Igniting Every Child’s Full Potential
Feel free to daydream
Go wherever you want to go
Happiness of childhood’s mind
Myself permission to eternally grow
There is a myth of what children need
Contrary to evidence we seem
To forget what’s True in learning
Forgetting God Who allows us to dream?
Children to do best in life
By what they do in their childhood
Blindly embracing the fallacy
Ambition is not wrong its selfish livelihood
The race to the top is not what’s education
Do all you can do to ignite
The passion in every child agreed
Purity models disable children’s might
Predicting a great life
Is not the SAT scored alert
It’s not a resume to list
Predictions given in curiosity to flirt
Do as you are told
Number one at giving
Not happy or fulfilled
Letting die the force of living
Having children was a surprise
Knowing the Harvard misery
Promote joy was absent
Learning Montessori
Five Steps to the model
Cycle of excellence to connect and play
Practice to progress to acclaim
Mastery recognition at the end of the day
Aruba’s beach I left
To learn with you today
Life’s expectations
Joy in life by the process I laid
Dad was tragically mental
Came home for leave to fray
I will kill your desire to kill me
Mom made love to create me he obey
Connection connection connection
Powerful force to fulfill
Joy is driven by connection
Disconnection recluse the pill
Knowing it is true
Un-acted afraid and blue
At most scared to accrue
Truth is love the best to prove
Every child needs connection
My mother’s eyes brought these smiles
Never ever giving anything but love
Boarding school brought release complied
In an odd funny brave
My dad gave the feeling of love’s way
Maybe not given normally
My dad’s demeanor was silent love rave
The arm of safety in first grade
Held me by connection’s right
Problems dissolved in loving
Me the child Mrs. Eldridge my light
The choir drew me
The club I loved to say
Connection to God freely
Safety His Spirit to pray
Connection is not theology
Inviting the kids to the feast
Allows for joy to celebrate
The love of growing in peace
I feel the strength of connection
Awareness of my past
Lacretia my great grandmother’s life
Open up the feast to last
Masters of the step of injection
Asking questions by safety felt
Mostly men who enjoyed teaching
Activity lights up the imagination belt
Permission to play and be myself
A kid fitting not in a mold
Round tables were a natural invitation
To discuss the experimentation not scold
Turning my life into a novel
Fred my teacher asked me to be
Challenged to practice of progress the novel
Senior English prize not impossible to see
Recognition can come in the arm
Of the teacher whose hug to breathe
Igniting Every Child’s Full Potential
Making public the progress to seethe
© Thomas Joe Cruz†Wiggins March 17, 2013 @ 7:01 AM EST
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