<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Part of my early morning meditation is coming across some of the writers, spiritual guides, etc. and I got Richard Rohrs this morning and thought about us.<div><br></div><div>"<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="content_width" width="530" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 16px; "><tbody><tr><td align="left" class="daily_heading"><h2 align="left" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="24px" style="margin: 0px; font-size: 24px; "><font style="color: rgb(61, 31, 13); ">THE REIGN OF GOD</font><font style="color: rgb(61, 31, 13); "></font></h2><font style="color: rgb(61, 31, 13); "></font></td></tr><tr><td><img alt="" height="12" width="10" id="068c5fa6-6bcd-4cf2-9c00-de8a0db4b0f6" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:9D82BDBE-EEB8-4FDB-BFB7-F1F89C7C2A64@austin.rr.com"></td></tr><tr><td></td></tr><tr><td class="content_body"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" style="position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td width="10"><img alt="" height="1" width="10" id="005494ae-860c-4058-adb6-fbd622dae187" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:9D82BDBE-EEB8-4FDB-BFB7-F1F89C7C2A64@austin.rr.com"></td><td><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="content_width" width="510"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><p color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="16px" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; ">There are always two worlds. The world as it operates is largely about power; the world as it should be, or “the Reign of God,” is always about love. How can you live in both worlds at the same time? As you allow yourself to loosen your grip on the first, you will gradually see the inadequacy and weakness of power as domination or control. You will then tighten your grip around the second, which is the ever purer motivation of love for others instead of yourself.</p><p color="#000000" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="16px" style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 26px; text-align: left; margin: 1em 0px; ">Any exercise of power apart from love leads to brutality and evil; but love that does not lead people to a whole new kind of power is mere sentimentality and emotion. I must admit, it is rare to find people who hold both together in perfect balance—who have found their inner divine power and use it for others.</p><div style="text-align: right; font-size: 14px; margin-top: 2em; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left; "><span class="hdr" style="color: rgb(85, 85, 85); font-size: 14px; ">Prayer:</span><br><strong color="#7F3931" size="16px" style="color: rgb(127, 57, 49); font-size: 16px; "><font style="color: rgb(61, 31, 13); ">Your will be done.</font></strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; widows: 2; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><div style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">George Holcombe<br>14900 Yellowleaf Tr.<br>Austin, TX 78728<br>Mobile 512/252-2756<br><a href="mailto:geowanda1@me.com">geowanda1@me.com</a></div><div style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hope appeareth, but it is not your Hope—you do not have anything to do with it. It just appeareth. It comes as a stranger, as an alien—it just appeareth! You do not even know why you hope. How in the world could you hope when there is absolutely nothing to justify any hope? ~Joseph W. Mathews<br><br></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></div></span></span>
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