A Gift for a Need

- A mentor is not someone who walks ahead of you to show you how they did it. A mentor walks alongside you to show you what you can do...

...with those words of wisdom in the mist of the holiday season, not everyone can feel its warmth, both literally and figuratively. Dear Reader, I hope all is well with you and your family and friends. Sadly, I realize that this wish is not true. At this time, consider the following texts. If you know someone who may be hurting, please, pass it to them.

Find Help in the Bible

Anger: Ephesians 4:31-32 * James: 1:19-20 * Proverbs: 15:1

Anxiety: Peter: 5:7 * Matthew: 11: 28-30 * Proverbs: 12:25

Crisis: Jeremiah 29: 11-13 * Lamentations 3:55-58 * Proverbs: 3:5-6

Depression: Nehemiah: 8:10 * Hosea: 6:1 * Psalm: 5-6

Discouragement: Romans: 12: 11-12 * John: 14:27 * Deuteronomy: 31:8

Fear: Isaiah: 41:13 * Joshua: 1:9 * Psalm: 461-3

Grief: 1 Thessalonians: 4:13-18 * John: 11:25-27 * Matthew: 5:4

Illness: Acts:3:16 * James: 5:16 * Jeremiah: 17:14

Loneliness: 2 Corinthians: 6:18 * Deuteronomy: 31:6 * Isaiah: 43:2

Temptation: Ephesians: 5:8-11 * Hebrews: 4:14-16 * James: 1:12-15

We, at Evolution realize that not all have a bible or believe, but you can still add your voice for our nation. Offer this:

- If then my people, upon whom my name has been pronounced, humble themselves and pray, and seek my face and turn from their evil ways, I will hear them from heaven and pardon their sins and heal their land. -

- 2 Chronicles 7:14

Sebastian offers two poems. He does not have permission, but he thinks the authors won't mind. The first is close to JFL as his unpublished work touches the subject.

                                                   Water by Sister Jean Houlihan, MM -

Water cool, clear. Water in trickling streams, in narrow rivers, in majestic oceans. Water fresh, salty the same water, different water. Water drawn from the well running in the kitchen the same water, different water to drink. Water in cyclone weather, in floods to fear. Water cleaning wounds quenching thirst, to heal the same water, different water. Water poured in Jesus' name is life-giving is in-spiriting is the same is different.

The next is rather long. I cut it, but you still receive the message.

                                         Am I My Mother's Keeper? by Sister Jean Fallon, MM -

The earth is bleeding! Our earth bleeds. The eagles scream and the ocean rushes to stop the wound. With 'dozers and drills we tear open our Mother and rip out Her womb that gave us our life...Who will scream with the eagles sharing the pain of our Mother Earth in bringing the birth a new way of living?

Yes who   if not we, if not now then who will weep for us?

Peace - from all of us at Evolution.