Above All Love: A Micro Blog
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Neurodiversity, Faith, and Pacifism. Above All Love. https://linktr.ee/loveabove Feel free to check out my bio link for more about me or see the pinned post. Every blessing.🕊️ My lovely wife's page: @rainbowskyegirl.bsky.social
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Welcome to my mini blog.
I am autistic.
I am a follower of Jesus.
I am pro-peace.
I live in Scotland.
I like walking and nature.
I like writing free verse.
I work in an outdoor early years nursery.
I have a speciality in work with ASN.
I am not always right about things.
I am still learning.
I am autistic.
I am a follower of Jesus.
I am pro-peace.
I live in Scotland.
I like walking and nature.
I like writing free verse.
I work in an outdoor early years nursery.
I have a speciality in work with ASN.
I am not always right about things.
I am still learning.
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Jesus said, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first commandment. And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbour as yourself.' On these two hang all the Law and the Prophets.'" (Matt 22:37-40) #ThisIsJesus
February 27, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Jesus said, "'You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first commandment. And a second is like it: 'You shall love your neighbour as yourself.' On these two hang all the Law and the Prophets.'" (Matt 22:37-40) #ThisIsJesus
"JOY: Jesus Others Yourself" holds truth. Love enemies, even love yourself (as Jesus does). Accept His love, be God's child, forgiven. True joy.
"Jesus said to love my enemies. So I did. I started by loving myself." - Anon
Know who you are in Christ, and accept His love despite our lack of merits.
"Jesus said to love my enemies. So I did. I started by loving myself." - Anon
Know who you are in Christ, and accept His love despite our lack of merits.
February 26, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"JOY: Jesus Others Yourself" holds truth. Love enemies, even love yourself (as Jesus does). Accept His love, be God's child, forgiven. True joy.
"Jesus said to love my enemies. So I did. I started by loving myself." - Anon
Know who you are in Christ, and accept His love despite our lack of merits.
"Jesus said to love my enemies. So I did. I started by loving myself." - Anon
Know who you are in Christ, and accept His love despite our lack of merits.
Goliath gets a stone in the head from David and falls. He was a bad man and suffers the result in this the old way of conflict. In contrast, St Stephen, a righteous man, resists not evil, prays for persecutors. Takes stone after stone from religious. "Forgive them." The new way of non-resistance.
February 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Goliath gets a stone in the head from David and falls. He was a bad man and suffers the result in this the old way of conflict. In contrast, St Stephen, a righteous man, resists not evil, prays for persecutors. Takes stone after stone from religious. "Forgive them." The new way of non-resistance.
Young David of OT fame dodged a spear thrown at him by wicked King Saul.
In contrast, Jesus, son of David, takes a spear for us on the cross. Blood and water mingled down. In this kingly sacrificial act, He prepares the way for the day when spears become pruning hooks and swords become ploughs.
In contrast, Jesus, son of David, takes a spear for us on the cross. Blood and water mingled down. In this kingly sacrificial act, He prepares the way for the day when spears become pruning hooks and swords become ploughs.
February 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Young David of OT fame dodged a spear thrown at him by wicked King Saul.
In contrast, Jesus, son of David, takes a spear for us on the cross. Blood and water mingled down. In this kingly sacrificial act, He prepares the way for the day when spears become pruning hooks and swords become ploughs.
In contrast, Jesus, son of David, takes a spear for us on the cross. Blood and water mingled down. In this kingly sacrificial act, He prepares the way for the day when spears become pruning hooks and swords become ploughs.
Anabaptists historically are radical, peaceful, and free. They try to avoid "pro/anti" traps. Pacifists of all sorts should nonetheless oppose all sides in all war, and if possible, aid victims. Anabaptists loved enemies, faced persecution, and pioneered liberty. This is an example to be followed.
February 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Anabaptists historically are radical, peaceful, and free. They try to avoid "pro/anti" traps. Pacifists of all sorts should nonetheless oppose all sides in all war, and if possible, aid victims. Anabaptists loved enemies, faced persecution, and pioneered liberty. This is an example to be followed.
Devotional thought:
Adam and Eve's sin led to banishment. Angelic stop sign: "Sin, no entry." Temple curtain: same message. Jesus' sacrifice: curtain torn. Now: "Come in, reconciled."
Adam and Eve's sin led to banishment. Angelic stop sign: "Sin, no entry." Temple curtain: same message. Jesus' sacrifice: curtain torn. Now: "Come in, reconciled."
February 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Devotional thought:
Adam and Eve's sin led to banishment. Angelic stop sign: "Sin, no entry." Temple curtain: same message. Jesus' sacrifice: curtain torn. Now: "Come in, reconciled."
Adam and Eve's sin led to banishment. Angelic stop sign: "Sin, no entry." Temple curtain: same message. Jesus' sacrifice: curtain torn. Now: "Come in, reconciled."
Prayer:
God of Love, bring peace. May peace prevail. Help us be your hands and feet, witnesses for peace. For your glory, improve humanity. Amen.
God of Love, bring peace. May peace prevail. Help us be your hands and feet, witnesses for peace. For your glory, improve humanity. Amen.
February 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Prayer:
God of Love, bring peace. May peace prevail. Help us be your hands and feet, witnesses for peace. For your glory, improve humanity. Amen.
God of Love, bring peace. May peace prevail. Help us be your hands and feet, witnesses for peace. For your glory, improve humanity. Amen.
Flash Fiction:
Hilltop, kilted man weeps, "It's over." Shocked, he falls, pleads. Nuclear cloud, city gone. "No!" Scotland doomed. Unthinkable begun.
Action needed:
Be peacemakers, abolish war like slavery. Faith, hope, love, end war.
Hilltop, kilted man weeps, "It's over." Shocked, he falls, pleads. Nuclear cloud, city gone. "No!" Scotland doomed. Unthinkable begun.
Action needed:
Be peacemakers, abolish war like slavery. Faith, hope, love, end war.
February 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Flash Fiction:
Hilltop, kilted man weeps, "It's over." Shocked, he falls, pleads. Nuclear cloud, city gone. "No!" Scotland doomed. Unthinkable begun.
Action needed:
Be peacemakers, abolish war like slavery. Faith, hope, love, end war.
Hilltop, kilted man weeps, "It's over." Shocked, he falls, pleads. Nuclear cloud, city gone. "No!" Scotland doomed. Unthinkable begun.
Action needed:
Be peacemakers, abolish war like slavery. Faith, hope, love, end war.
Bonhoeffer film uses "Sound of Silence" with Nazi imagery. "Darkness, my old friend" & "neon god" highlight sin. Light, scientifically indestructible, mirrors Jesus, the eternal light. In darkness, remember Jesus' light prevails. Be a beacon like Bonhoeffer, shining Christ's light.
February 26, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Bonhoeffer film uses "Sound of Silence" with Nazi imagery. "Darkness, my old friend" & "neon god" highlight sin. Light, scientifically indestructible, mirrors Jesus, the eternal light. In darkness, remember Jesus' light prevails. Be a beacon like Bonhoeffer, shining Christ's light.
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1/"Yesterday's text for #lectiodivina is a long one but it was suggested by one of the participants. #Quakers This is the context: "Now after I had received that opening from the Lord that to be bred at Oxford or Cambridge was not sufficient to fit a man to be a minister of Christ" (G Fox Journal)
February 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
1/"Yesterday's text for #lectiodivina is a long one but it was suggested by one of the participants. #Quakers This is the context: "Now after I had received that opening from the Lord that to be bred at Oxford or Cambridge was not sufficient to fit a man to be a minister of Christ" (G Fox Journal)
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2/"I regarded the priests less and looked more after the dissenting people… As I had forsaken all the priests, so I left the separate preachers also, and those called the most experienced people; for I saw there was none among them all that could speak to my condition." G Fox Journal
February 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
2/"I regarded the priests less and looked more after the dissenting people… As I had forsaken all the priests, so I left the separate preachers also, and those called the most experienced people; for I saw there was none among them all that could speak to my condition." G Fox Journal
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"Love can be a radical and subversive form of activism. It has the power to change us like nothing else can. It also challenges our selfish egos while emphasising connection and responsibility. Love is worth risking everything for." Bayard Lay
February 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
"Love can be a radical and subversive form of activism. It has the power to change us like nothing else can. It also challenges our selfish egos while emphasising connection and responsibility. Love is worth risking everything for." Bayard Lay
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God allows himself to be humiliated and crucified in the Son, in order to free the oppressors and the oppressed from oppression and to open up to them the situation of free, sympathetic humanity.
Jürgen Moltmann - The Crucified God
Jürgen Moltmann - The Crucified God
February 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
God allows himself to be humiliated and crucified in the Son, in order to free the oppressors and the oppressed from oppression and to open up to them the situation of free, sympathetic humanity.
Jürgen Moltmann - The Crucified God
Jürgen Moltmann - The Crucified God
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Being born against from a Peace Church perspective. Dying to the self-centered injustice and violence of Adam, and being born again into the self-giving justice and peace of Christ.
February 19, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Being born against from a Peace Church perspective. Dying to the self-centered injustice and violence of Adam, and being born again into the self-giving justice and peace of Christ.
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We are called to live ‘in the virtue of that life and power that takes away the occasion of all wars’.
February 25, 2025 at 8:28 AM
We are called to live ‘in the virtue of that life and power that takes away the occasion of all wars’.
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February 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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A picture is a poem without words. — Horace
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#sunset #australia #sunsetphotography #photography #nature #afterglow #aesthetic #hope #peace #mothernature
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February 25, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Oh well… it could be a lot better, let’s be real.
Enough of politics, I’d like to thank all you lovely people for liking and following my little artistic endeavors. It really means a lot!!! ♥️ Let’s keep bringing art into our world! #urbansketching #watercolour #art #hope #landscapepainting
Enough of politics, I’d like to thank all you lovely people for liking and following my little artistic endeavors. It really means a lot!!! ♥️ Let’s keep bringing art into our world! #urbansketching #watercolour #art #hope #landscapepainting
February 24, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Oh well… it could be a lot better, let’s be real.
Enough of politics, I’d like to thank all you lovely people for liking and following my little artistic endeavors. It really means a lot!!! ♥️ Let’s keep bringing art into our world! #urbansketching #watercolour #art #hope #landscapepainting
Enough of politics, I’d like to thank all you lovely people for liking and following my little artistic endeavors. It really means a lot!!! ♥️ Let’s keep bringing art into our world! #urbansketching #watercolour #art #hope #landscapepainting
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February 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
—Confucius
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#sunset #australia #sunsetphotography #photography #nature #afterglow #aesthetic #hope #peace
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
—Confucius
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#sunset #australia #sunsetphotography #photography #nature #afterglow #aesthetic #hope #peace
February 24, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
—Confucius
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#sunset #australia #sunsetphotography #photography #nature #afterglow #aesthetic #hope #peace
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
—Confucius
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#sunset #australia #sunsetphotography #photography #nature #afterglow #aesthetic #hope #peace
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For those looking for some #peace and #tranquility, here's some from #Panglao. Have a wonderful day!
#sunrise #ocean #beach #Philippines #cultureofnature #nature #photography
#sunrise #ocean #beach #Philippines #cultureofnature #nature #photography
February 25, 2025 at 1:56 AM
For those looking for some #peace and #tranquility, here's some from #Panglao. Have a wonderful day!
#sunrise #ocean #beach #Philippines #cultureofnature #nature #photography
#sunrise #ocean #beach #Philippines #cultureofnature #nature #photography