Marching Orders 2

In faith we wait, and in faith we walk.  In faith we wait as we walk.

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Genuine Effort

Genuine effort is an effort that doesn't work to be "like" but to become.

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Sudden View

Don't pity those who pity you, but pray for those who pity wooes, for its a short road, to a deep ditch, in an old story.

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God Bless You

To diminish hatred and preserve your soul, God sends an enemy to bless you.

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Crickety Songs

The cricket sings three songs... sometimes it stops between each one, and other times it's a continuous humdrum which all depends on whom it may disturb.

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Pot Holes

The open mouth of a pot hole, with its lips caught under tire, becomes a resounding gong, to awaken all who pretends to be asleep.

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Frigid Revelations

The truth rides in on a chili breeze, and the concerns of its enemies are held captive under a frigid revelation.

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No Edges

Out of a box and into a sphere, is the persistent work of love to soften edges.

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Distinctions in Freedom

The highest freedom is the freedom to believe in good.

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The Travelers Club

They travel beneath and between burgundy and mustard dusks and lemon and orange dawns.

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Crumbs of Souls

Crumbs of souls gather around the furnace.. rubbing shoulders, shaking hands, and fanning the flames together.  In time the crumbs become a single soul that moves about with haunting wisdom and hysterical freedom, and if it stands still long enough and the people listen close enough, they will find the crumbs of each soul that gathered on a dark, cold, winter journey.

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The Whip

Underestimation is not a whip for catalyst or debilitation, but for deep investigation.

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Fallacy Arrives

Fallacy arrives when you place your  curiosity to high up on your agenda.

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Echonomics

The ability to use the echos in your life to judge your distance from God.

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Objectives

More is fire, but less is salt.

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Revelations

When God places a memo on your desk, it doesn't fall; it surfaces.

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The Nine Lives of Leaves

For most, it appears that the life of a leaf ends when it falls from a tree, but with every brush of the wind, the leaf lives on to see what's next.  So perhaps it's the moment the leaf finds itself underfoot that it's life comes to an end. And yet perhaps, it's not until it's swept up and thrown away.

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Too High to See

Could it be that where crime is low, high crime is high?

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Tough Question Vol. 14

As to not violate your rights, something is given to you at the poorest quality, are your rights still violated?

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Reason

Reason is that which cannot be removed, and must not be assumed.

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Beginnings Only

Those who believe in continuation bypass all endings.

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Traveling Feet

If you keep your feet ahead of your mouth, you'll never end up with your foot in your mouth.

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Life's Wins

Life's wins are not managed by outcome, but by input.

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The Predators Test of Feedback

A sudden sink in the chest, and a quick twist of the neck.

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Feast of Thrones

Your vision is only a beast if it can beat the beast that envisions killing you.

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LLO and Behold

Pick up your GEMs in person!

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Until Then

Until consumption is a pattern, production is a guess with one short arm and one too long.

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Punctuate

Suspicion is a question, where as faith is an answer punctuated by exclamation.

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Fully Materialized

Fully Materialized the eyes draw back as awe turns to average and average turns to awe.

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The Eden of Injustice

Where liberty is just an ideal and not exacting, justice becomes elusive.

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All Three

Perhaps we are always our past, future, and present.  Therefore I am she; the mother, the child, and the single adult... all at once.

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Drizzle

Drizzle not rain, is a piano being played on a row of leaves.

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Spirit Sojourn

Not by the Abra Ka Dabra, but by the Abba Father.

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Notices

Not at a moment's notice, but in many moments that pay us notice.

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Stagger

Although we stagger, our paths are made straight by what God eliminates in the process.

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Weightless

The things we are blind to, will always remain weightless.

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The United Stakes

A brotherhood of shared interests.

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Blank Stare

Perhaps if He never draws us a blank, we would never stop to  listen.

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Conversations with Corruption

When money talks, and influence claps.

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The Left Hook

Prayer is a jab the enemy hates to face.

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Wiping My Own Eyes

The one who draws your eyes forward, is the keeper of your soul.

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Leaky Faucets

You can't play to an agenda unless you're part of the agenda.

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Justice

Just when the enemy thinks it's stringing you along, the Father steps in with promise.

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The Evolution of Response

Linda, Nora, Veronica.

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Go To

If you want to be the "go to", be ready to go through.

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Tough Question Vol. 13

Can a positive impression ever be erased?

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Warning

Don't mistake a gem dropping for a rain drop. A gem that falls on your head will break your neck.

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Conceited

When self-centeredness leads to celibacy.

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Awakening

When your pain becomes light.

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Ungolden

Sometimes people don't do unto others as they would have done unto them, simply because they don't understand what can be done to them.

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Best Image

The best images do not speak, but demand you speak of them.

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Wisdom

When the degree doesn't change, only the subjects.

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Reciprocity

Reciprocity comes when doubt gives birth to acknowledgement.

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Operatives

Do plants carry eyes at the back of their heads, or in their ear buds.

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Time and Season

Time and season is a precursor to prophecy.  For you cannot prophecy what has not been scheduled.

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Precious Penny

When you're not thought of as money, but as a prerequisite to making change.

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Light Cures

Truth be Told: The truth. What about the truth. The truth is too pure to destroy, and it contains too much light not to cure.

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Love Lingers

Find what you love to do, and love on it.

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Tough Question, Vol.12

In 2018, why can't you stick a jump drive into a phone?

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The Measure

Principle over L squared divided by Spirit.

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After a While

After a while you relax your preferences and pick up your purpose.

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We Still Fly

Woman: When wisdom met matter.

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Best Bait

The best bait remains brilliance.

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Separating Fields

Separate your purpose from your ambition, and all kinds of possibilities appear.

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Fire Fly

On my weakest day, my mouth is strong.

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About Ballot

The only way to know you are truly the winner, is to vote for your opponent.

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Be Told

When your contributions can't be Erased, then your story will be told.

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A Divine Impulse

No divine impulse is random, rather each impulse has a pulse. Catch it before it runs out.

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Mind Is

The mind is a container by which we hold each version of our self.

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No Hands Free

Left hand stretched out to the father and the right to your brother.

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Operation Useless

To many kisses on the butt makes you dull.

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Head High

An empty sorry, is worse than an absent apology.

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Open Definition

History unzips definitions.

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Ghetto vs. Hood

Ghetto is a condition of economics, Hood is a condition of mind.

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Busy Spinning

The more we read, the busier the week for the spinners.

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Righteousness Objects

No one needs to make a case for righteousness, but for many righteousness objects.

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Rules of Monopoly

The one who chooses to become a monopoly, naturally forfeits their inclination to discriminate.

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No Test of Character

Sleep is simply no test of character.

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Proper Response

When the Elite uses poverty to suppress competition, the poor must use innovation.

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Law's Demands

A true and equal law never cries out for help, but stands up and demands to be acknowledged.

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Inspiration and Power

When you are empowered by your dream, you're inspired to pray.

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Trustworthy

Trust comes the moment you realize that the ink from God's breath dries instantly.

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Something to Acknowledge

You can't overcome barriers until you know what's holding them up.

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Something to Remember

None of the tangibles are satisfactory without the company of the intangibles.

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Proper Hand-off

For the one who chooses righteousness in harsh circumstances, the Lord show's up to claim justice.

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Graduated to Leaping

Where we can jump from the ground, a leap demands that we have climbed.

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Lines Drawn

See the lines but treat them like hurdles, and prepare to jump.

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Best vs. Worst

Your best question comes on your worst day.

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Maximize Overflow

The one who sells his overflow, sells his brother's portion.

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What Trap?

Easiest way to shut a trap is to speak the Word of God, but the only way to keep a trap closed is to live the Word of God.

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Proper Attire

Where action is a mascot, reaction is the referee.

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Proper Order

Until capabilities can be seen, possibilities cannot.

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Peace vs. Desire

Peace can reside anywhere, but desire must create a desirable circumstance.

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No Varnish Please

Truth is the only polish dignity needs.

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The Whole Story

Wholeness fights when brokenness surrenders.

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Today In Fake News

A Fancy Blah, and A Prideful Lah.

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Tough Question Vol.11

What is the aspirational value you bring to those around you, and will you only bring it if it's recognized?

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Fortunately

Purpose sustains what interest can only entertain.

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Unfortunately

Where there is money there is no discrimination, and where there is poverty there is no equality.

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No Trading Mirrors

The most important asset to a dreamer is his or her reflection.

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The Way

With delay the Lord makes a way, but with acceleration the Lord proclaims the way.

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Just One Moment

When you got next, and you realize that next comes before now.

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Whereas and Forever

Whereas God is able, man is enabled.

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Proper Position

Reject the opportunity to compete, but accept each opportunity to continue.

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Self Defined

Only define what you are willing to debate.

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Maximize Glory

The Lord's arm will always be the quicker arm because it foretells.

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Maximize Relationship

Man cannot co create with God, for man cannot see high or far enough, but he may cosign with God, who knows and sees all things.

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Aspirations in the Sand

Are written sacrifice by sacrifice.

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Therefore 2

The one who takes the aspirational view, gives no context to the climb.

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The Unseen

Aspiration looks high, but desire climbs high.

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Best Scene

Aspiration is best seen behind the door labeled sacrifice.

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Therefore

The comber is always off the path on the path.

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Creator and Comber

God creates the path, then leaves free will to do the combing.

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Maximize Confusion

When the Lord confuses your enemy, don't rush in to offer a piece of your mind.

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Maximize Imagery

There is no cliche term, only cliche imagery.

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Know Undoubtedly

The one who answers the soul's questions will not be distracted by disapproval.

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Tough Question Vol. 10

Can you hear the questions your soul is asking beneath the questions of your surroundings.

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Maximize Hearing

A question is always more effective than an answer, and an answer is only effective if it makes you ask another question.

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Maximize Failure

Power comes when you see failure as a test of your current limits and not your potential.

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Tough Question Vol.9

Advice from the losers coming in off the field, or from the spectators sitting in the risers?

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Proper Placement

Unreachable is a good place for a commodity.

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Not So Fast

The easiest emotion to manipulate is hate.

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Proper Entrance

Never take a cheap way in where there's an expensive road out.

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Grace Mugging

They throw deuces, we throw lips.

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Tough Question Vol. 8

Favor or Riches?

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Know Deception

Deception is best dressed in familiarity.

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More Than Opposites

Poverty is not the opposite of prosperity, but its enemy.

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Paid For

Pain is the price we pay for knowing. Do not throw away what you've paid for in anger.

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Petty Party

The small print always looks petty until the large print disappears.

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Deception's Swag

Deception will always befriend you before it sways you.

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Know Danger

The danger of yes is hidden.

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Beauty Knows

The beauty of no is knowing.

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Answer Matters

If the answer is not filled with power, then the question doesn't matter.

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Prayer Does

Prayer does what action cannot do, and reaches where action cannot reach.

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At Home

Until we are at home in prayer, we are strangers in all circumstances.

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Strong Chance

The truth always stands a strong chance.

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Tough Question Vol.7

If it takes you five years to gather the knowledge to do a thing, are you still a beginner?

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Marching Orders

Clarity, Peace, and then Faith.

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Hard to Believe

Hard to believe, but busy is disturbed by peace.

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Finding Bio

Forgiveness is the greatest beauty you can carry on the inside.

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Know Knowledge

It's no benefit to having the right answers, if you do not know why they are right.

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Characterizing Power

Power don't need volume, it only needs truth.

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Fact

The Lord require willingness, but the devil only requires ignorance.

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The Shepherd's Deck

Half the amount of cards, and more than equal the amount of plays.

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Only Problem Is...

My forgiveness is never set to mute.

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Temperature Checking

Drop the thermometer, my temperature is always set to forgiveness.

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Hidden

Disguised by calamity and hidden in poverty, are the purposes of God.

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Your Own Mind

Everyone has a mind of their own, but sometimes the mind you own, is the mind that's been given to you.

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Wisdom Cracks

Unless words are wisdom, don't use words, use wisdom.

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Legacy

Legacy is the legs you see long after the person has stopped walking.

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Oh Joy

Joy is the love created when one has placed their hope, peace, and trust in God.

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Rewarded

Your efforts will be rewarded according to the faith they required, not the energy they expended.

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Where From

From empty comes toxins, but from full comes the possibility of all things.

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