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    <title>This is who I am: Category For Jehovah</title>
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      <title>Sometimes what I want to say has already been written</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Word Of God Speak&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://mercyme.org/main/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mercy Me&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m finding myself at a loss for words&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And the funny thing is it&amp;#8217;s okay&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The last thing I need is to be heard&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But to hear what You would say&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Word of God speak&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Would You pour down like rain&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Washing my eyes to see&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Your majesty&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To be still and know&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That You&amp;#8217;re in this place&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please let me stay and rest&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In Your holiness&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Word of God speak&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m finding myself in the midst of You&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Beyond the music, beyond the noise&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;All that I need is to be with You&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And in the quiet hear Your voice&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Word of God speak&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Would You pour down like rain&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Washing my eyes to see&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Your majesty&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To be still and know&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That You&amp;#8217;re in this place&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please let me stay and rest&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In Your holiness&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Word of God speak&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Word of God speak&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Would You pour down like rain&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Washing my eyes to see&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Your majesty&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;To be still and know&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;That You&amp;#8217;re in this place&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Please let me stay and rest&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In Your holiness&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Word of God speak&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m finding myself at a loss for words&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And the funny thing is it&amp;#8217;s okay&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:39:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>Rebecca</author>
      <link>http://www.thisiswhoiam.org/articles/2008/09/23/sometimes-what-i-want-to-say-has-already-been-written</link>
      <category>For Jehovah</category>
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      <title>More Bad Poetry but That's Ok Because I Know He Likes It.</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;You breathe.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I inhale.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Your breath gives me breath. 
Your mercy sustains me.
You are here.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;My heart is elsewhere, dwelling on things not of You.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I slip. I stumble. I fall into your outstretched hand.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I want to feel shame, but You have removed it from me. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am justified because You made a way.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You set me upright. I step toward You.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I feel Your smile in the basement of my heart. It lights up Your whole house.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I exhale.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Breath by breath, I experience Your eternity. It is here. It is now. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are one.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hallelujah!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 08:53:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>Rebecca</author>
      <link>http://www.thisiswhoiam.org/articles/2008/06/17/more-bad-poetry-but-thats-ok-because-i-know-he-likes-it</link>
      <category>For Jehovah</category>
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      <title>You are doing.</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;You are pouring out your mercy on all creation while You prepare to execute final justice.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You are painting a beautiful day.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You are with me, constantly keeping my heart true.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You are far away, constantly keeping the planets on their paths.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You are weeping with the oppressed.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You are rejoicing over found sheep.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;With Your loving arms You are embracing the lonely, whispering to them &amp;#8220;you are not alone.&amp;#8221;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You are giving all wisdom and knowledge. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You are giving every breath of life. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You are continually creating through that which You&amp;#8217;ve already brought into being.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I saw Your sunrise this morning. It was brilliant. A new masterpiece, different from all the sunrises on the countless mornings preceding. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You are giving sight to those who are seeking and You are speaking to those who are listening.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am aching to know You, and You are counting me among those who are seeking and those who are listening.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You are being gracious beyond my comprehension.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 11:05:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>Rebecca</author>
      <link>http://www.thisiswhoiam.org/articles/2008/06/09/you-are-doing</link>
      <category>For Jehovah</category>
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      <title>Relationship</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;A moment exists. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am there with You, L-rd. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For a second, we are together in the garden. Nothing is hidden, and You speak openly to me. You clothe me in Your Love and I am unaware of any lack within myself. There is no fear, no contention, no panic, no sorrow. I have no knowledge of these things. You exhale and the sweetness of your breath lingers. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Now exists. Forever now.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In Now,  I experience the fullness, the satisfaction, the completion that comes with the awareness of Your Presence. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Your presence. Out of time.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In time, I am still bound in this earthly skin.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I hated.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Then, I forgot you were there. For five minutes, I hated. It was Your Image, and I &lt;em&gt;hated&lt;/em&gt; it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I hated You.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;How could I have hated You, L-rd? &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Beauty. Love. Perfection. Mercy. Justice. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I hated them all.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You hold me in Your hand. I raise my wet eyes to your face and seek something I do not know.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You forgive. You forget that I hated You.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You make me remember Beauty, Love, Perfection, Mercy, Justice.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You make me remember Your Presence.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I am nothing.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You make me excellent for You.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:53:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>Rebecca</author>
      <link>http://www.thisiswhoiam.org/articles/2008/06/06/relationship</link>
      <category>For Jehovah</category>
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      <title>Untitled</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;Jehovah.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Your spirit speaks to me with higher language. Silently you steal upon me in the soft starlight. You made the starlight. I am stilled.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You sit with me.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The stillness of Your being is powerful. Your constant calm washes over me. I am at rest in You. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the silence of the evening, in the cool calm still, you are with me. We are together. We are being. I am in Your presence; You surround mine.  Peace.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We are together, in quiet communion, being. We are in the same space and the same time. Your beauty beckons me.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You brush a strand of hair from my face so you can see those eyes you created a little more clearly, even though you intimately know them. In that moment, I know that I am beautiful.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The evening earth is our constant companion, yet my soul only hears, only feels, only knows you.  Singular. Special. You. You give Your beauty to me.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Wonder fills and fulfills me.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Then, in a fleeting moment I find myself exposed and terrified because I have failed this day and every other to attain the level of obedience that Your perfection is due. As the hot and painful tears fill my eyes and I look into Yours, I do not fear Your wrath. I only fear losing You. Then you take my hand into Yours, and, brushing my tears away, You hold me. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;My heart ceases to question.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You will never leave me. I will always have Your perfect and unending love.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>Rebecca</author>
      <link>http://www.thisiswhoiam.org/articles/2007/09/24/untitled</link>
      <category>For Jehovah</category>
      <category>Jehovah</category>
      <category>worship</category>
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      <title>Take My Life - Even the Ugly</title>
      <description>&lt;p&gt;You promised me a heart of flesh. I&amp;#8217;ve been looking at my heart lately, searching for the tiniest trace of the fleshy, living heart you promised. If it is what you promised, then why is it that wherever I look in my heart, all I find is stone?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hard. Cold. Stone.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Do I care about my fellow man? Not really.
Do I love my enemies? No, not really, no.
Do I live like I know I should be living? Somewhat, probably out of habit. I mean, it&amp;#8217;s not like I&amp;#8217;ve gone off the deep end, but it&amp;#8217;s not like I&amp;#8217;m doing anything other than treading water.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I sing your praises on my way to and from work, but my heart&amp;#8217;s not really in it. It&amp;#8217;s pretty much lipservice at this point, and I know it. Do I care right now? Not really.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;ve tried to try but that isn&amp;#8217;t working. And not trying anything isn&amp;#8217;t working either. I thought I was up against my will, but I&amp;#8217;m not so sure anymore. I think I&amp;#8217;m facing something different, and I have NO CLUE what it is and quite frankly, I don&amp;#8217;t know that I&amp;#8217;m that interested in really finding out, because I&amp;#8217;m not really trying. You know that.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;What I do know is this. I know you want all of me. The good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly. So I&amp;#8217;m giving it to you, here and now.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can have it. You can have all the cynical, the sarcastic, the road-weary, the apathetic, the angry, the frustrated, the bored-out-of-my-mind-with-life-in-general. You can have it all, because I know that eventually, you&amp;#8217;ll make sense of it, and you&amp;#8217;ll make something beautiful from it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#8217;t do that.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;You can.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Do it. It&amp;#8217;s all yours.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:04:00 -0500</pubDate>
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      <author>Rebecca</author>
      <link>http://www.thisiswhoiam.org/articles/2007/08/21/take-my-life-even-the-ugly</link>
      <category>For Jehovah</category>
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