God in All of His Glory

I hope and pray,

That what I have written over the years and sent to others,

Has made sense and has touched your heart in some way.

Please tell others about them... They do not belong to me - they belong to Him, The One who gave them to me. I do not know the reason why I started to type them, Someone else could have done a much better job. I just typed them from the words the Lord placed in my heart, I could never have written them on my own, not in a thousand years. Remember, the words and format belong to Him, The errors in usage and spelling belong to me. Like I have said to so many before, the Hole is always darkest at the bottom, One needs light to complete any type of work, Day or Night. God provide the Light needed for me to write, With the Light of Christ's Love that Day that He placed it within, To complete my life within Him. When you have nothing, You never ask for anything, You take what is given and enjoy the moment. Just Life that He has allowed me to view over many years of growth, Seeing and Hearing how people give and take. To much sadness, loneliness, oh so much hurt, People hurt. Given when one uses so many needless words of harm. Everyone has the fix and answer for the other person, Always ready to point out their problem, And the one that hurts never needs another fix or answer. One never needs to be shown shame, they feel it, And remember, words do not hurt, people who use those words hurt. We seem to forget God in All of His Glory always came down, He took the first step of giving, sharing, and reaching out, To Adam and to all others of Adam's Race, Always ready to touch, give, and to share. He did not point to the problem, He knew they felt the shame, His way to help, starts with simple words wrapped in love That touch and heal the heart within, They knowing then that someone is there in their time of great need. Kindness starts the healing process, care feeds and gives the strength, And love repairs and rebuilds stronger than before, from the inside out. Encourage someone every day and build their life Christ's way, By being a friend that gives and shares to build their life to walk in His Light. His Unconditional Love, Acceptance as is, Is what He touched your heart with that day, then by Faith's Belief, you received Him. Pass it on to others and build them within Him. God's, greatest rewards have always been the lessons I learn in Life! Lord, You know, I need nothing else, Martin Lee Vance 2/16/2010

Empathy

Empathy 

Empathy, it is much more than just understanding another’s feelings, 

It is entering into another's feelings, and becoming a part of them, in love,

By being there for them to help and encourage as the need be in their time of need. 

It makes accessible compassion’s pathway between, and structures the bridge of caring, 

That joins the heart of one to the heart of another, in their time of need.

Through feelings felt, built of the circumstances of life, that both identify with, 

Experienced feelings, shared feelings, wrapped together, 

By the present feelings felt by the one in need 

And the past feelings remembered by the other, there in their time of need, 

Bridged and bound together as one, 

That brings comfort and encouragement to not only the one in need, to the mender as well. 

Memories filled with feelings, they are either good or bad, 

For the ones in between daily touch, wrap, and bind together all life. 

Memories are feelings self-hidden within, 

Because of the nature of the feelings felt, that built them, 

For one either wants to remember and build life in them,

Or the pains from the feelings of the past are far too great to release and bear again. 

Feelings come from Life Experiences; they are either good or bad, 

The good build the soul and encourages one to face life, God’s way, each day, 

By His Grace, in Love for one another, as one follows Christ in faith's belief, 

To build life’s happiness daily within with His Integrity of Character 

By reading, hearing, and taking within the teachings of the Word. 

The Holy Spirit teaches of Him and guides the Way 

And keeps the path of life straight,

With the thoughts built of feelings that build good memories 

As one endures life’s trials and tribulations, 

Until Eternity's Day, one stands before God as one in Christ. 

The Holy Spirit keeps the path open between you and Him, 

Because He felt your feelings then, and now within both you and Him, 

That day upon the Cross of Calvary when Jesus paid the price for all sins, once and for all. 

Those feelings built of empathy's sharing resurface in you for Him from time to time,

As you remember and look upon the empty Cross,

And His taking of them, the price He paid, that day, to forever be as one in Him! 

The bad feelings release nothing to build or encourage, 

For they are built and wrapped with only the feelings of deep despair, hurt or loss, 

Wrapped in Satan's price, that builds indifference and dislike, 

His type of life in the dark of the past, hate, to control the soul, 

While he tears at the heart with sadness and remorse 

From the feelings locked and hidden within and lost to the past. 

Both, the good and bad, are released from time to time, to be felt and lived again therein, 

Endured in the past, uncovered, and viewed again, 

Bury the bad at the foot of the Cross and ask for forgiveness. 

Remember this, if you remember nothing else, 

All feelings within of the past, they will allow you to reach out to those in need today, 

To share, help, and mend another's heart within God’s way, 

He will heal and build them for tomorrow’s day from within as He heals you! 

Always, reach out to help, touch, and encourage another by sharing their load in life,

Especially, those facing or have faced life's loss, no matter what, 

For God has sent you to them, for you know as they 

The feelings of their deep despair built of the hurt or loss they have within them! 

Just knowing that another is there and cares enough in their time of need, 

That has endured life's hurt or loss as they! 

Caring starts the healing process and Love builds them stronger 

From the inside out, to face tomorrow's day, 

For God had planned, when He created man, in His Wisdom, 

In understanding built the heart within, and in God's way, 

That allows them to face life, 

To heal and build again, over time, anew from within to without, 

The soul of another to reach out, live, and face life again, 

In addition, in time to reach out and heal the soul of yet another, 

For God in His Wisdom has planned, 

And placed Empathy’s Love in the Heart of Man,

To guide you Home to Him. 

Lord, guide and build me to share and care for all in Your Name each day,

Martin Lee Vance

10/8/2012