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Poem by Ryan Hogarty

God said love me with all your heart with all your soul with all your mind and with all your strength.


This was his greatest commandment and not a suggestion, something to do and not to shew....


But what did the master mean when he wanted us to love with everything we had, surely we can not stay the same, we had to change!


Well, with Father its always simple... With your mind, the mind of Christ , imagine, dream, and envision with Christ's thought, in the power of the Holy Spirit spend your strength on His mighty works, with the inspiration of the Father in your soul create, sing aloud, compose and dance with daddy, and with everything, with all your heart, and all these days on this earth let not your heart remain silent as you spend your all for your King!!!!


But that was only one half of the equation, an unbalanced part of the Father's determination...
For without the second we would be lead into navel- gazing introspection...


For His love is only complete when we give it away, a windfall gain to be passed by the saint... For his second commandment is to love, your very neighbour as yourself!


For Your gift, your heart, your mind, your love is NOT for your own, its not by chance to you it has been sown...


It's for the lost, the hurt, the broken to release, the whole, the body, in fullness to bring increase....


And so we swallow our pride and to the Father's wing we return to hide, for in Him alone, in His love do we have our strength our joy our victory song...


And so now balanced and even spanned do we walk with our hearts turned heavenwards and our hands and eyes, touching, looking, releasing His love by the power of His dove.


For at the end of day all that remains, is His love not just for us but to give it away!

"Breaking of Bread", By Rory Cassy

Initially, I had an idea of what I wanted.  I put everything together in ‘my’ way, but I just could not get the right picture.  But suddenly, when I was just looking through the camera lens, there was everything that I was trying to capture, and much more!  Just as in life we try to do things in our own way and we seem to miss the mark.  When God takes over everything falls into place!

There is so much to ‘see’ in this image:

Broken bread risen like sin but now broken.

Seeds of promise, faith, potential.

Wooden table the cross, table of the Lord; the table prepared for me in the presence of my enemies.

Shadow of cross in the background the future church, bride, up ahead.

Bright shining light Holy Spirit’s presence.

Crumbs on the table is food for the Gentiles which also reveals great faith.

Base of glass planted firmly.

Twisted stem they that wait ( cleave, bind themselves as twisting) to the Lord will renew their strength.

Glass half empty His Blood poured out, but there is still plenty(grace)

The Cross it doesn’t matter how full or empty your glass the cross will always be reflected.

The clouds His return with His army.

The sky Heaven awaits.

The ground soaked up His Blood.

The circle of the glass rim Eternity

His body broken so I can be made whole

His glass half empty

Mine is half full

Calvary shines

I reflect…….