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Tag: #sabbath
Soul Cry: Hiraeth! ©️Dawn Minott | Loop Poetry with audio
Hiraeth: an unaccountable homesickness for a place you’ve never visited.
Shabbat Shalom: You Were Made for Rest ©Dawn Minott
Sabbath was made for you. It’s our weekly gift that keeps on giving till the next weekly gift is opened.
Shabbat Shalom: The God of Piece ©Dawn Minott
In a world where peace feels fragile and our lives can feel like scattered pieces, this poem invites us to remember the God of Shalom—who lovingly restores us piece by piece.
Shabbat Shalom: A Resting Place Amidst Turmoil ©Dawn Minott |with audio
Have you turned on the news lately and felt your heart sink? So many nations are caught in conflict. So much suffering. Wars. Armed conflicts. Border shifts. Political power plays that dominate the global stage while diplomacy falters. From Gaza to Ukraine, Israel to Iran, Haiti to Myanmar—the world trembles under the weight of violence, …
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From His Side ©Dawn Minott
Parallelism—woman and humanity came from (first) Adam’s side, the Church and God’s family were born from the pierced side of Christ (second Adam).
Sabbath is a Blessing |a Poem ©️Dawn Minott
Sabbath—a sacred rhythm calling all to restoration, justice, and peace.
Smoothest Heist ©️Dawn Minott
Stealing back freedom, redemption, and eternal life through love and sacrifice.
Shabbat Shalom: Who Writes Your Story? ©️Dawn Minott
As long as we are alive, God’s still writing our stories.
What’s Old Is New ©Dawn Minott
There’s nothing new under the sun. What has been will be again. What’s old wil be new again.
Shabbat Shalom: The Concept of God ©Dawn Minott |with audio
A journey of reflection on the profound nature of God.
God Was ©Dawn Minott |with audio
Before there was before, there was God. God was. God is. God will always be.
Shabbat Shalom: Who Is A Christian?
How can you identify someone who is a Christian?
Shabbat Shalom: The Father Ran©Dawn Minott |with audio
Imagine … God running!!
Shabbat Shalom: Selah! |with audio
Selah! This may be the most mysterious word in the Bible. There’s no one definition but the operative word that all these definitions have in common—though it’s only implicit—is silence.
Shabbat Shalom: The Sacrifice ©Dawn Minott
Easter Saturday is silent. Easter Sunday is coming.
Life Lived in Poetry©️Dawn Minott |with audio
Before-word: Life is line upon line of experiences grouped together like stanzas, arranged like verses in a script // expressed with voice, diction, sound, rhythm, meter // understood through figures of speech, symbolism, allegory, imagery // structured in syntax and scheme // with strong, accurate, interesting words, deliberately chosen to give meaning to life — LIFE LIVED IN POETRY.
Shabbat Shalom: B.I.B.L.E.—Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth | with audio
The people who know God, know life!
Shabbat Shalom: Generational Blessings| with audio
Don’t forget to remember—God doesn’t forget. And He’ll bestow blessings on you that’s been stored up at the request of others on your behalf.
Shabbat Shalom: Fragments of Prayer©
The more I think on why I pray, the more I come to realize that my prayers are really but fragments of my heart. Like when I’m compelled to stop in acknowledgement that the normalcy and routine of my life has been interrupted by the supernatural. Like when my eyes open in the morning and …
Shabbat Shalom: Dear God, I’m Grateful | with audio
Extraordinary flowers that look exactly like animals, aliens, fairies and other strange creatures
Shabbat Shalom: Dear God, How Will I Know?
Not every opportunity is a blessing. Not every open door is for us to walk through. Not every closed door is a missed opportunity.
Shabbat Shalom: What In God’s Name—Jehovah Shalom (Peace) with audio
One of the benefits of writing is that words live on in perpetuity and can be revisited. This week was very trying for me with some heavy emotional moments on issues that will deeply impact my future. By the end of the week I was emotionally spent. The week also concluded a month of intense …
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Shabbat Shalom: It’s Worship Time© // with audio
Sabbath is for rest and it’s also for worship.
Shabbat Shalom: Fingerprints in the Sand
Before acting in judgement and condemnation of others, remember how much God has forgiven us.
Shabbat Shalom: Let’s Pray©
When I pray the objective isn’t to change God. For prayer doesn’t change God, it changes me.
Shabbat Shalom: God’s Poem [with audio]
God is the unparalleled Poet. And of all that He’s created, humans are His workmanship, His masterpiece, His best poem.
Shabbat Shalom: I Wanna Heart Like That Heart [with audio]
Having a heart like God’s heart does not mean that a person will make no mistakes. Rather, you will respond differently when confronted with your mistakes—with humility and repentance.
Shabbat Shalom: God Moments [with audio]
Click👆to listen There are moments that are described as “happenstances” and others as “coincidences”, but I prefer to see these moments as God moments. God moments mark the times when the ordinary of our lives is interrupted and interjected with the extraordinary. God moments are moments that cannot be explained, or they are so perfectly …
Shabbat Shalom: Real Life Living [with audio]
Religion should lead to a deeper spiritual experience.
Shabbat Shalom: Rest Is Power [with audio]
Sabbath reminds me in a tangible way that God is creator. And, allows me the freedom in focusing primarily on God and all He does for me.
Shabbat Shalom: The Tale of Two Daughters Where 12 & 12 Collide [with audio]
It’s a tale in parallelism of two daughters: the dying 12 year-old daughter, beloved of her father and a woman rejected, including by her own father, losing her life source each day for 12 years. For as long as the little girl has been alive, this woman has been slowly dying.
If Jesus Lived on Earth Today©
What if Jesus—in His physical form—stopped by to visit me today? What would I do? Invite Him in? What would I say? “Come on in. Take a seat. May I get you something to drink?” Or maybe I’d be too astounded to utter even one word. Maybe I’d just sit at his feet and wait for Him to speak.
Shabbat Shalom: What in God’s Name?! Jehovah Shammah (God Is There/Here) [with audio]
The name of the LORD is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Jehovah Shammah—the God who is there/the God who is here.
Shabbat Shalom: What In God’s Name—Jehovah Raah (Shepherd)
The name of the LORD is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Jehovah Raah—the God who is our Shepherd.
Shabbat Shalom: What In God’s Name—Jehovah Tsidkenu (Righteousness)
The name of the LORD is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Jehovah Tsidkenu—the God who is our Righteousness.
Shabbat Shalom: What In God’s Name—Jehovah Jireh (Provider) Part II
The name of the LORD is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Jehovah Jireh, the God who sees you and provides in the now and the future including your salvation.
Shabbat Shalom: What In God’s Name—Jehovah-Jireh (Provider) Part I with audio
The name of the LORD is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Jehovah Jireh, the God who sees you and provides in the now and the future.
Shabbat Shalom: What In God’s Name—Jehovah Rapha (Healing) with audio
The name of the LORD is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Jehovah Rapha is the God who is present to heal in times of extremity and to redeem as the Word made flesh.
Shabbat Shalom: Be Still [a poem]
Imagine a conversation with God about being still when all around you is in chaos. This piece is such a conversation.
Shabbat Shalom: Tears’ Voice & Harvest [with audio]
👆PLAY👆to listen as you read along Tears have a voice. Whether tears are as a consequence of joy or sorrow, they speak volumes—even more than words can say. As I mentioned in last week’s Shabbat Shalom post, I was writing it from my own heart experience. What I didn’t say was that it was written …
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Shabbat Shalom: God’s Art to heART [with audio]
👆Play👆to listen along as you read ART to heART is more than a homophone. It’s a life-changing salvific principle used in the recreative-poetic expression of God. The Greek word poiēma is used ONLY TWICE in the Bible and both times in reference to the creative power of God. First, when He created eARTh referred to …
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Shabbat Shalom: You’re A Masterpiece—God’s Work of Art [with audio]
👆Play👆to listen along as you read God is a master artist, a genius creator. When He created eARTh, He built ART into every nook and cranny of it. And as beautiful and majestic and wonderful as the ART He created in eARTh was, at its completion God pronounced it as merely “good”. Genesis 1:10, 12 …
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Shabbat Shalom: God Knows Your Name [with audio]
👆PLAY👆 and listen along while you read God is passionate about you because God is passionate about God. OK … hold on. Before you think I’m saying God is egotistic, because that He is not, let me expound. God knows who He is. In response to Moses’ question: “Who should I say you are?”, God …
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Shabbat Shalom: Sun/Son & Shadows
👆PLAY👆You may listen and read along Shadow is mentioned quite frequently in the Bible, and usually in the context of God's protective presence. Like: being covered with the shadow of God’s hand (Isaiah 51:16); resting in the shadow of the Almighty (Psalm 91:1); being hidden in the shadow of God’s wings (Psalms 17:8); or walking …
Shabbat Shalom—Be Like A Tree© [with audio]
👆LISTEN👆as you read along As we’re winding down the season of long summer days and about to enter the season of transition, I’m thinking about trees and the transformation they’re preparing to undergo—the stripping, the letting go—and how simultaneously beautiful and haunting that is. And that got me thinking about the life lessons we can …
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Shabbat Shalom: Of Lives Lost & Longing
Before-word: for today’s Shabbat Shalom celebration, sharing a piece commissioned by my church as a tribute to our members who’ve passed on as part of our 50th anniversary celebration. I did not want a macabre presentation, but rather one filled with hopeful anticipation. Using the abecedarian poetry form, I chronicled our beginning; the joys of …
Shabbat Shalom: Sabbath, A Time-Tithe
Sabbath is a tithing of our time. Okay—having put that out there, let me explain: Sabbath and tithing are two biblical principles. Both appear paradoxical or self-contradictory on the surface. And, both are associated with blessings. Paradoxical and a blessing? How? Both are based on you giving up a portion of what you have a …
Shabbat Shalom: Rest in Stillness
I’m a big fan of David. The David of the Bible. Yes, that prolific spoken word artist who was also a master harpist, a warrior King and a murderous adulterer. So bloody were the hands of David from warding off assailants while he fled a jealous crazed king and from wars he waged to secure …
Shabbat Shalom: God Started It, Science Confirms It
Before I understood the true meaning and the blessings of the Sabbath, it was more like an arduous religious ritual observance. And as an adolescent, I recall at the end of just about every Sabbath I came down with a terrible migraine headache. Research on the anthropology and psychology of religion have confirmed the psychological …
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Shabbat Shalom: Reflection
In addition to—the tranquility of Sabbath peace; the blessings of Sabbath worship; the refreshing of Sabbath rest; and those Selah moments of pause like mini-Sabbaths that can be taken throughout the week—is the joy of Sabbath reflection. Sabbath is a time of reflection. Many people tend to think of Sabbath as merely a command given …
Shabbat Shalom: Fellowship
I previously wrote about attributes that Sabbath affords us—the tranquility of Sabbath peace; the blessings of Sabbath worship; the refreshing of Sabbath rest; and those Selah moments of pause that we can take throughout the days that are like mini-Sabbaths. This post is about another facet of Sabbath, fellowship. One of the things I miss …
Shabbat Shalom: Peace
“Peace I leave with you; My [perfect] peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Do not let your heart be troubled, nor let it be afraid.” St John 14:27 (Holy Bible) I took this photo last night as the sun was setting, ushering in another Sabbath. And …
Photo Reflection
Spring Blooms captured on my morning walk while embracing the gift of Sabbath—rest, reflection, restoration. ©2021 createdbyDEEsign. All rights reserved. ©2021 createdbyDEEsign. All rights reserved. ©2021 createdbyDEEsign. All rights reserved. ©2021 createdbyDEEsign. All rights reserved. ©2021 createdbyDEEsign. All rights reserved. Thank you for reading! Follow the blog here👈 for more.In creative solidarity, Dee
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