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Announcing a new Creative Path towards emotional healing…using the BlogTalkRadio feature: Click this link – Recognize, Reflect, and Release – to go to the recording, supporting journaling samples, and a detailed description of the content… The entire sequence takes just 30 minutes or less – just half an hour to go from turbulence to a place of calm, leading to true and lasting peace.  Remember to pray before you start, submitting the time and your heart to the healing revelations of the Holy Spirit… Happy Journaling!    

Here is a page of the complete list of characteristics as listed in the post of how God really is, (not how we perceive Him to be).  You can print, cut out, and adhere these to your own stones which you have constructed.  You may use this page over again for the shorter lists of characteristic words in this post for perception of God and in this one for perception of your earthly father.    Also included is a page of  clear, even “word stones” that I created for my use for this post.  These are uncolored so that you can paint, color, or(?)  each stone as you believe it…

Lately we have been investigating perceptions and the Father Heart of God… and I have been asking you to do rating exercises and making paper stones… and now we will work at putting it all together! It is now time to REALLY take out your first list, the one in which you rated how you REALLY felt God was each characteristic…I did a similar exercise about 15 years ago, and I am here to say that I have grown in the past 15 years! Back then, I didn’t think God was trustworthy, engaged, approachable, affectionate, or accepting. My rating was at a 6 or below!  I knew in my head…