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Just woke up from a dream in which I (Tom) woke up in a bad mood while staying at my parent's house with our whole family (Theresa, Hayley, Ellen, Eden).  My disposition was so poor that I was basically sent back to bed and told I could not lead the adult education class on evil, unless I shaped up. 

Father, grant me the grace to live today as a member of your new creation.  By the power of your Spirit, fill me w/the love and care given by Jesus, the Messiah of the world, through the cross. Shake me out of my dark dreams and into the light of Kingdom living as an individual, as a father, as a neighbor, as a member of IVCF GFM staff, as part of the People of God, as a steward of your creation and the gifts you've given me . . . As I turn to breakfast conversation w/Hayley and Ellen, continue to open our eyes to your word in the Gospel of John.  Enable us to more deeply embrace and be embraced by the grace & truth which came through your Son Jesus while rejecting the father of lies and those which follow him (brief study of John 8:42-7, John 3:31-6; Beginning with John's Gospel by Susan Harding).