125. Walking Circumspectly with God Meditation

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Welcome, friends, to the Creative

Spiritual Journey podcast, where Gay

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and I walk with you for just a moment

on this beautiful journey of life

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and share with you the things of our

hearts, the lessons and joys that

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we are experiencing along the way.

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Today's meditation is a walking meditation

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to walk circumspectly.

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Circumspectly means to look around

carefully at how we live and behave.

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But to walk circumspectly with God, I

believe, is to see His handprints on our

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hearts, on all the beautiful creations

around us, His glory, His love for us.

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There is a quote that I love.

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"Faith unfolds by leaving

everything in God's hands and

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beholding His hands in all things."

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So I'm inviting you to take this

meditation on a walk, to walk

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circumspectly, to walk in remembrance.

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to look around, to look up from your

phones, from your tablets and screens,

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and to look up at the sky, the clouds.

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Maybe you're looking at a sunset or a

sunrise or stars or maybe even a moon.

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Look up at the trees.

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Maybe you're looking up canyon

walls or across fields of grain.

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Maybe you have a view of an

ocean or a lake or a river.

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To walk in wisdom, to see the

hand of God, His handprint, His

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signature on all creation, even the

smallest, the rocks at your feet,

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the caterpillars, the blade of grass,

all created by His hands for our joy,

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To walk circumspectly

in our designated time.

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To redeem this time and allow

God the Father and God our

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Mother their will be done.

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To walk forward looking for their

handprints in our hearts, To be wise with

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those precious gifts of time and life.

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To walk on roads blazed by our ancestors,

cross rivers and bridges built by

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our pioneer brothers and sisters.

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To drink from springs still

flowing from long, long ago.

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To leave our handprints, our mark of I

was here on heart walls, on Mother Earth.

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To live free in liberty and justice

fought by our forefathers to show

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honor and remembrance to them.

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Okay, that is a lot of words.

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Why don't we get into the meditation?

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So as you walk,

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circumspectly, aware

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with gratitude, honoring and remembering

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So if you were just

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Breathe, settle into your body

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feeling the breath breathing in

through the nose and out through

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the nose, sensing your body

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Letting go of aches and pains,

letting go of worries and struggles.

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This is your moment to just walk.

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Walk with God.

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Walk in remembrance

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Looking about

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Seeing his hand?

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in all things.

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Having the eyes to see and the ears

to hear and the heart to believe

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Can you hear it?

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She whispers of memorials left behind,

souls who once walked the earth, our

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forefathers, our pioneers, our loved ones

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I was here.

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Remember me?

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Our family

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Brothers and sisters, Earth

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Savior

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Heavenly Mother, Heavenly Father

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Handprints on our hearts

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As we walk this earth, their

love surrounds us in everything

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we see as we experience births,

deaths, love, war, faith, fear,

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stories carried through generations,

marks left upon the walls of time

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Continue just breathing

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with an awareness of breath, awareness

of the sights and sounds around you

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Slowly and deeply allow

your shoulders to soften

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Relaxing your jaw and

settle into this moment.

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Breathe in that fresh peace.

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Breathe out.

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Let go of the hurry to be somewhere.

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Just here and now.

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Slow your pace.

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Breathe in light

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Breathe out.

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Let go of the heaviness

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If you can, place your hand on your heart

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Feel its quiet rhythm and how it too

beats with the pulse of this earth,

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this nature that you're walking through

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His heart, a sacred doorway to your soul

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Let's just for a moment remember

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the handprints left by those who loved you

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Maybe you see a witness of them in

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the world around you right now

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Something that reminds you of your

mom or your dad or grandma or grandpa

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Maybe there's God winks,

something that delights you,

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a white rose, a heart rock, a

feather, or a song of a bird

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Maybe there's some colorful

clouds painting the sky

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This earth that your ancestors roamed

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The life they built

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Just a moment in remembrance,

someone whose love has shaped your

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life and have walked this earth

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Do you remember them?

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And let's just softly repeat

in our minds as we walk,

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looking around, "I remember you

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My heart carries a remembrance of you.

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I honor you.

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I honor you in the way that I walk, the

way I behave, and how I look at life.

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I honor you.

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I thank you for building bridges

and roads, for fighting for

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our liberties and our freedoms

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And I love

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you

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I can't.

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I remember you

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I honor you

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I thank you

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I love

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you Just allow that to

settle deeply into your soul

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Breathing in and shifting your focus

a little bit, noticing something

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around you now that brings you joy

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Carefully at the small things,

the things beneath your feet

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Now let's bring to mind someone

walking beside you in this present

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season of your life, these moments,

building their life with you now.

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Someone whose hands are still

fresh paint upon your heart walls

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Hmm.

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See their goodness, their humanity.

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We all have a weakness,

but we're gonna offer grace

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And see the light of God in them,

the divine light of God in them

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And let's return to our affirmation.

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I see you

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I see your light.

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I see you trying

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I honor you

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I honor you with the way

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I walk towards you the

way I care and nurture

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The way I speak, the way I listen

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I thank you for loving me

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Thank you for having Grace with me

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And I thank you for leaving your

handprint on my heart, walking

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beside me through the storms

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I love you

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Together, we are writing a living story

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We are leaving a legacy

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Breathing in

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Bringing your mind to this

moment and our focus forward.

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If you were to look ahead down the

trail towards children, grandchildren,

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future generations, towards souls

you may never meet in this life, yet

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whose lives will be touched by you

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What handprints are you leaving behind?

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What legacy

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Will they enjoy this earth like you?

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The beauties, the birds, the trees

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What memorial of love?

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Faith, courage, kindness will remain

after you have finished your journey

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And let's imagine those future hearts

remembering you and softly saying

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Remember me

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Remember me when you see a heart rock

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When you see a sunrise, a butterfly

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Zinia

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A cloud that is shaped like an elephant.

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Honor me by the way you walk this earth

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by the way you treat your

brothers and your sisters

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Honor me by the way you love God.

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Walk with Him.

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Carry forward the love I leave with you

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Cross those bridges I have built

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Again, remember me

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Anami

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Carry forward the love I leave with you

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Beautiful.

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Stay present with your breath.

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And now let's turn our hearts

towards our Savior, Jesus Christ

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our Redeemer, who said, "Behold, I have

graven thee upon the palms of my hands.

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Thy walls are continually before me

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His love is an eternal

handprint upon our souls.

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Remember him

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Remember he has delivered us

from sorrows and deaths and sin

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Let's place our hand on

our heart one more time

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Gently repeat, I will remember thee

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I remember

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That I am redeemed because of thee.

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I look to thee

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I honor thee

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I honor thee by the choices

I make today to love greatly,

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to lift and serve another.

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I thank thee for loving me first.

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I thank thee for giving me eternal life.

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I love thee

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I love thee with all my heart,

might, mind, and strength

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If you would just imagine an embrace

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As he walks beside you again

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Can you tell him?

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I will remember thee always

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I honor thee

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I think the, oh, I think the

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And I love

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Hmm.

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We are all bound together in

unseen threads of love, one heart

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One human family across generations

of time and all eternity

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Handprints reaching

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From the past to now to our future

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A witness that we were here and

that we belong to one another

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Now if you would, just taking a good

deep breath and a sigh, and just

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let your body be washed in the joy.

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The joy of remembering, the joy of

belonging, of honoring, of thanking,

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and giving thanks in all things.

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Let your body just be bathed in this love

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You feel it?

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I feel my Savior's love in

all the world around me.

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His Spirit warms my soul

in everything I see.

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He knows I will follow Him,

give all my life to Him.

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I feel my Savior's love,

the love He freely gives me

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May you walk in His light more

circumspectly today is my prayer

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Namaste