Plethora Ministries: 2013

Monday, December 23, 2013

Season's Greeting & Holiday Reflection

Season's Greetings & A Holiday Reflection

As you embark upon the journey for the New Year 2014: May you be companioned by the warmth, Overflow with the joy, Bask in the wonder, Be showered in the goodness, Marvel in the splendor, Be a beneficiary of the prosperity, Be enraptured by the inspiration, Be revitalized by the renewal, And Be blessed by the glad tidings of peace During this season, now and throughout the year to come!

Be Blessed,

K. Mason

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Wednesday, November 27, 2013

THANKSGIVING BLESSINGS 2013

May the spirit, grace, presence, peace, love, warm, comfort, and goodness of Thanksgiving be with you and those whom you cherish and love now and throughout the year! Cornucopia blessings to you for a blessed harvest of God's abundance in grace, mercy, assurance, joy, and peace!

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Thursday, September 12, 2013

HONORING THE GIFT OF HOWARD THURMAN

REVEREND DR. HOWARD THURMAN

Preacher, Pastor, Mystic, Leader, Visionary, Prophet

Poet, Writer, Maverick, Pioneer, Man of God

Howard Thurman, Boston University, Marsh Chapel dean

Bibliography

The Greatest of These (1944)
Deep River: Reflections on the Religious Insight of Certain of the Negro Spirituals (1945) [also published as The Negro Spiritual Speaks of Life and Death (same year)]
Meditation for Apostles of Sensitiveness (1948)
Jesus and the Disinherited (1949)
Deep is the Hunger: Meditations for Apostles of Sensitiveness (1951)
Christmas Is the Season of Affirmation (1951)
Meditations of the Heart (1953)
The Creative Encounter: An Interpretation of Religion and the Social Witness (1954)
The Growing Edge (1956)
Footprints of a Dream: The Story of the Church for the Fellowship of All Peoples (1959)
Mysticism and the Experience of Love (1961)
The Inward Journey: Meditations on the Spiritual Quest (1961)
Temptations of Jesus: Five Sermons Given By Dean Howard Thurman in Marsh Chapel, Boston University, 1962 (1962)
Disciplines of the Spirit (1963)
The Luminous Darkness: A Personal Interpretation of the Anatomy of Segregation and the Ground of Hope (1965)
The Centering Moment (1969)
The Search for Common Ground (1971)
The Mood of Christmas (1973)
A Track to the Water's Edge: The Olive Schreiner Reader (1973)
The First Footprints (1975)
With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman (1979)

Posthumous- Also, several of his books were reprinted after his death.

For the Inward Journey: Writings of Howard Thurman (1984)
A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience (1998)
Meditations of the Heart (1999)
Howard Thurman: Essential Writings (2006)

Be Blessed,

K. Mason

(c) 2013
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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Minnie Riperton Montage

Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Minnie Riperton

11/8/1947-7/12/1979

Minnie Riperton Montage

Minnie, a rare once in a lifetime voice with a vocal register kissed by the breath of GOD and the whisper of angels with a spirit so free, so loving, and so beautiful. May you forever be loved and always remembered. Thank you for the immortal gift of your artistry. Your voice soared to the heavens and your song writing ability was like that of a canvas of flowers that were sprinkled poetry to the soul. There is and never will be another like you! “Loving you is easy, because you are beautiful.”

Tuesday, July 09, 2013

ACRONYM FOR CHANGE

CHANGE

Beloved of the Most High: You have not happened upon this meditation neither by accident nor by default. There have been many challenges that you have faced recently and you're feeling overpowered; oftentimes, like you are being overtaken and drowning in the tidal waves of life. You might be wondering whether or not if it is worth it to read any further because it appears that your efforts are in vain and the result is futile.

Beloved, you were carried here by the very waves that you thought would consume you. You were lead here by a gracious and loving FORCE that is greater than you.

You have been seeking an answer(s), a response, and a resolution. Stay a while and rest. Be still as the answer is not in your fight against the waves, but by your ability to embrace them, give in to them, recognize them, seek to understand the message that they are offering you, and become one them for in doing so you are allowing not only yourself, but your perspective, and your circumstances to CHANGE. There is tremendous power in letting go! When one lets go, he/she opens himself/herself to new and greater opportunities in God's plan and grace!

May you be graced by the gift of the blessing of CHANGE on this day; even right now as you read and reflect upon this quiet meditation. May the LORD grant you "divine courage and loving hope" and the quiet and sure confidence that surpasses all understanding, circumstances, knowledge, troubles, doubt, anxiety, and fear(s). May you find comfort, solace, and assurance today and everyday. Amen.

The dynamic blessedness of glorious CHANGE is not defined by the presence of adversity, tension, or disappointment, but CHANGE is an indicator that the gracious and loving presence of GOD'S grace and presence of The Holy Spirit has a greater calling, responsibility, and destiny for you as well as your life! Yes, be encouraged! Your circumstances have not defeated you! You are not a write-off! Do not give up! CHANGE is on the way! CHANGE is your gift!

Trust not in what you see and place not your treasures in earthen vessels, but have faith as "faith is the substance of things hoped and the presence of things not seen." Hebrews 11:1. God is still on the throne!

Take heart, comfort, and solace, because "the race is not given to the swift, but to he that endures to the end!

My prayer for you is the grace, the wisdom, and the blessedness of Glorious & Divine CHANGE.

Below are two brief Acronyms for Change. Read Them, Reflect Upon Them, & Rest In Them!

CHANGE IS A PROCESS, NOT AN EVENT

C - Courageous

H - Hope

A - Affects

N - New

G - Grace

E - Everyday

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C - Cultivating

H - Human

A - Altruism

N - Necessitates

G - Growth

E - Everyday

Be Blessed,

K. Mason

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Monday, July 01, 2013

ACRONYM FOR PEACE

PEACE

Beloved of the Most High: You have not happened upon this meditation neither by accident nor by default. You were lead here by a gracious and loving FORCE that is greater than you. You have been seeking an answer(s)...a response. Stay a while and rest. "Be Still." Psalm 46:10

May you be blessed with the gift of peace on this day; even right now as you read and reflect upon this quiet meditation. May the LORD grant you "divine peace." Peace that surpasses all understanding, circumstances, knowledge, troubles, doubt, anxiety, and fear(s). May your heart be comforted and your mind placed at ease. May you be granted peace!

Peace. Peace. Sweet Peace Beloved.

Peace is not defined by the absence of adversity, challenges, or disappointments, but peace is the gracious and loving presence of GOD'S grace and presence of The Holy Spirit to sustain you and enable you to stand, yes, even right now, when circumstances would have otherwise overtaken and defeated you! You are not written off! Your circumstances have not defeated you! Do not give up!

Take heart, comfort, and solace, because "the race is not given to the swift, but to he that endures to the end!

May our Heavenly Father bless you and keep you always in His care, His grace and grant you His Peace.

Below are 3 brief Acronyms for Peace. Read Them, Reflect Upon Them, &; Rest In Them!

P - Prayers

E - Energize

A - All

C - Cellular

E - Energy

P - Positive

E - Energy

A - Activates

C - Constant

E - Elevation

P - People

E - Everywhere

A - Are

C - Created

E - Equal

Be Blessed,

K. Mason

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Sunday, March 10, 2013

LIGHTS FROM THE CELESTIAL CITY OFGOD

LIGHTS FROM THE CELESTIAL CITY OF GOD

Prayer for Today: God is our strength, our hope, our refuge, and the light that provides sight upon our gloomy paths. On this day may you find peace, encouragement, and comfort in the presence of God's gracious loving kindness and be embraced by the rays of his love that radiates like the Eternal Light from the Lamp of Celestial City of God. Amen.

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/htm/l/s/l/lsliadsh.htm
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Here are the words and music to the great hymn, Like Sliver Lamps in a Distant Shrine

This hymn captures the essence of this Reflection

William C. Dix (Words) 1867

Charles H. Steggall (Music) 1867

Like Sliver Lamps in a Distant Shrine

Like silver lamps in a distant shrine,
The stars are sparkling bright;
The bells of the city of God ring out,
For the Son of Mary is born tonight.
The gloom is past, and the morn at last
Is coming with orient light.

No earthly songs are half so sweet
As those which are filling the skies,
And never a palace shone half so fair
As the manger-bed where our Savior lies;
No night in the year is half so dear
As this which has ended our sighs

The stars of heaven still shine as at first
They gleamed on this wonderful night,
The bells of the city of God peal out,
And the angels’ song still rings in the height,
And loves still turns where the Godhead burns,
Hid in flesh from fleshly sight.

Faith sees no longer the stable floor,
The pavement of sapphire is there,
The clear light of Heaven streams out to the world,
And the angels of God are crowding the air,
And Heaven and earth, thro’ the spotless birth,
Are at peace on this night so fair.

El Greco's "The Disrobing of Christ" (1577-1579) Oil on Canvas

Be Blessed,

K. Mason

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Wednesday, March 06, 2013

PRAYER FOR WISDOM

Wisdom is the astute application of knowledge. It embodies a profound comprehension and awareness of people, human behavior, circumstances, nature, the universe, and the presence of GOD, coalescing into the ability to appropriately and compassionately execute discernment, decisions, and actions all in keeping with this understanding. When King Solomon was the successor of the United Kingdom of Judah and Israel, he neither asked GOD for power, wealth, status, longevity, nor self-adulation. Instead, King Solomon asked GOD to help him govern his kingdom well and wisely. GOD was pleased with Solomon’s request because it was a humble, an earnest, and a selfless request. God honored Solomon’s requests and also granted him two things which most people desire: longevity and riches.

PRAYER FOR TODAY: Gracious LORD, we come before thy presence in a posture of gratitude and a heart of thanksgiving to express our deep and sincere reverence for the profound grace that you have bestowed upon us as your people; the sheep of your pasture and partakers of thy gracious bounty. We pray Dear LORD, that you would remind us of how special we are to you and that neither part of our hearts, our minds, nor our bodies are unknown to thee. Grant us the wisdom to trust in you and the movement of thy Holy Spirit and render us with the faith the size of a mustard seed. Teach us to petition thee for wisdom, temperance, patience, and love in place of our immodest desires and the temptations of self-indulgence, personal agenda, self-promotion, or supremacy over others. We ask this prayer in thy precious name. Amen.

Be Blessed,

K. Mason

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Monday, March 04, 2013

STAND STILL

Stand Still

We are living in some of the most preeminent times, yet some of the most challenging times. It appears on some level that genuine compassion for others and the spiritual imperative that we are our brothers and sisters keepers are merely platitudes and that the spiritual imperative, that subsequent to our love for GOD, that we should love our neighbor as thyself is merely an exercise in rhetoric are all too often swallowed up by malignant narcissism, obsessive self-indulgence, and the unrestrained dislodge of power. It seems that our spiritual compass has gone awry and that the land is desolate and its people starving though gorging themselves on all types of substitutes to feed their hungry souls, yet never appeasing their gluttony. Evil appears to blatantly flourish in the face hope and at the expense of good, while the acceptance of brokenness and injustice are elements that daily occur and has caused far too many persons to abdicate their faith for reason and to believe that this is as good as it gets. Beloved, be not dismayed as God is still sovereign. It is during such times that we must continue to pray and act with spiritual temperance, wisdom, and love.

Prayer: Gracious LORD, we come before thy presence and ask that you will encourage our hearts, while reminding us that the race is not given to the swift, but to he/she who endures. LORD, help us to remember that sometimes, all that you require that we do is to trust you and stand still in thy holy presence and in your presence take solace under the shelter of your divine wings of refuge. Hear our prayer LORD we pray. Amen.

Be Blessed,

K. Mason

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Strength and Weakness

On this day dear LORD caution us to never cease praying and to expect the miraculous in the ordinary. Teach us daily and by the moment to accept thy will and grant us the wisdom, faith, and the serenity to discern self-will from thy will. Teach us to humbly embrace the weakness of our strength and the strength of our weakness. This is our prayer today as we render thee thanks in Jesus’ name we pray. Hear us dear LORD we pray. Amen

Be Blessed,

K. Mason

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