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Our best images of God are still only pointers. Hold them lightly —and please, don’t be a dick about them. mrose.substack.com/p...

#HumilityInFaith #GodImages #SpiritualDirection
November 23, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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Because #love and #life hide in the dust, sweat, chaos, and sheep poop, along with the unexpected joy of ordinary #work.

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October 3, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Grass isn't always greener on the other side or at another time in history. #ancientinsightsfortoday #SpiritualJourney
August 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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On my Substack: "Love is a choice. Each morning, I need to choose it again — choose love when I’m anxious, when I’m furious, when I feel completely lost. Love is grace, yes, but it’s also a practice, a habit, a muscle that only gets stronger with use." Read: mrose.substack.com/p...
#SpiritualJourney
August 24, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Love is a choice. Each morning, I need to choose it again — choose love when I’m anxious, when I’m furious, when I feel completely lost. Love is grace, yes, but it’s also a practice, a habit, a muscle that only gets stronger with use. Read: mrose.substack.com/p...
#ChooseLove
August 19, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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I need your help!
I’m publishing a book this fall and would love it if you would share with me which of the four book covers you like most? Please leave your vote (1,2,3 or 4) in the Comment Section. #FallReads #IndieAuthor #Spiritualbooks #TeilharddeChardin #ORT
August 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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The big idea in my latest Substack;

"Love does not win
by crushing enemies
or by pitchfork and torches
but by giving itself,
come what way may
and rising
and rising
and rising still."

If you like, read it here: mrose.substack.com/p...

#LovePrevails #LoveWins #SpiritualDirection #EmpathyInAction
August 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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I offer some wordplay on tenacious self-giving love with my new Substack post:

" Love comes back,
not with armies
but with bandages,
bread,
and broken hearts
that beat anyway. "

Read it: mrose.substack.com/p...

#SpiritualDirection #SelfGiving #SelfGivingLove
August 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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To love God is to love what God loves - the planet, the flowers, trees and animals ... and human beings. We are entangled with God and therefore entangled in all things.

#EntangledInAllThings #SacredRelationships #SacredNature
August 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Your heart isn’t a monster. It’s a compass. Sure, it needs tuning now and then — but it still points toward Love. 🧭 #RethinkJeremiah #BecomingLove

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August 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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God is love. Love is relational. Freedom is key for love. Love doesn't control.
#EmbraceTheLove #FreedomInLove #LoveWithoutControl
August 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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God is Amipotent not omnipotent. God's superpower is love.

#GodIsAmipotent #LoveIsStronger #TransformationalLove
August 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Perfect love drives away fear.
#exvangelical #GodisLove #faithshift
August 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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God is love, Love is relational. Love is dynamic - The faithfulness of God's love is rooted in love's nature to change, to grow ... #Onesizedoesntfitall
#GodIsLove #amipotence
August 1, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Everything is Love ... Love expressed or Love required.
#Godislove #traumainformed #exvangelical #findinghome
July 31, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Take a 1-minute break - a covert, mini meditation to reset, re-ground and refresh. (Don't forget to breathe). #Mindfulness #Meditation #SelfCare
July 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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"And even in a heart gone dark, there remains a flicker — a bridgehead of good."

Read it here: open.substack.com/pu...

#HopeInDarkness #EmotionalHealing #InnerLight
July 27, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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A few thoughts about loving the folks that are hard to love and avoiding the viciousness of ideological purity that masquerades as justice ... but probably isn't. Read it here: open.substack.com/pu...

#LoveAndCompassion #HealingHearts #HealingRelationships
July 25, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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We become what we love. What are you becoming?

#Becoming #LoveAndGrowth #IliaDelioquotes
July 24, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Grief is hard. Grief has a 1000 different faces and is as unique as you are.
#GriefJourney #GriefSupport #healmyheart #religiousdeconstruction
July 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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One Minute Meditation. I am my beloved's ...

#SpiritualDirection #OneMinuteMeditation #GodisLove #Entangled #Godineverything
July 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Everything we are sings ... #divinelove #mystic
July 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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#SpiritualJourney #endure #grief #hope #ancientwisdom
July 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Interesting read: "...Embarrassed by your feelings of boredom ... . Those feelings are an important signal that the practice may not be optimal for you. It’s as if boredom is saying: ‘Change something ...'"

psyche.co/ideas/find...

#SpiritualCare #Meditation #PersonalGrowth
July 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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What if sin is anything that opposes Love? And what if justice is healing? Rethinking sin through the lens of Jesus.
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#JusticeAndLove #SpiritualGrowth #JesusTheHealer #FaithReimagined #HolyCuriosity #UnlearningReligion #HealingNotHarm #ReclaimingJesus
July 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM