Help in Our Time and Manet's Genre Paintings of Everyday Light

By Ryan P. Byrne

Daily life in this day and age can be trying and exhausting. Who couldnt use more love, encouragement, and grace in their life? Find yourself in the feelings of these stories, get lost in them, and take away something that you can use. Joy and grace are accessible right now to you, more than youve really thought.

For we helpfully know in our spirit that, All things are lawful, but not all things are profitable, and that all things are lawful, but not all things edify. This is our given grace, to be freed to help again and gratefully get us through each day. Be motivated, be encouraged, be you.

Use this book as a devotional, and be inspired to live each day with a joyful spirit and clear conscience. You may even find yourself

--helping with love
--honoring family life
--and feeling Gods grace again

We live, we laugh, we help, we believe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Aug 8, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490838229

Ryan P. Byrne

RYAN P. BYRNE lives in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he serves the community as an environmental chemist, professional athletics referee, and is also active in his local church, where he has served as a worship leader and Sunday school teacher. Lord willing, he now spends time at work, and with his family.

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Help In Our Time

The Spirit Meeting Prayers

Do I spiritually see

That when I truly acknowledge the being of others

Something returns

In eternal thought and feeling

For it had gone away with the sojourns of self

Waiting to rekindle in the fires of help

And when we’re emptied

Wondering if there’s anything to share

The sparkling song reminds us that,

God’s loving energy is around us everywhere

And there at the threat of our own personal despair

Another soul awaits

And I seek to ask one last time

It is then that we realize there is at least one person that has had it worse than you

And again the charged, luminous paradise appears

And We Begin

What is it

That makes me start

As I look at the morning light

Do the needs of others

Overcome our own resounding will

Our Manners,

Our Discipline,

And what really motivates us each and every day

That we chew peppermint gum

And see just when the house and car needs to be cleaned

We lovingly say, hi sometimes without knowing or trying

And fight ourselves to stay in the best health

Sometimes we walk in a helpful state:

Moving between the feelings we have for

all people

And the day to day feelings of who we

are to others

Some days wondering

What we have left to give,

And do we remember……

Being encouraged by our family & team, so that we didn’t give up

When we went out of our way that workday, to see in their eyes that it made a difference

The humble laughter and graces of friends, letting us be who we really are

And the connection to life and vitality, we have and find in helping all those really in need

Most mornings when I wake

And walk through the dawned and silent room,

Finding again submission

Yet still feeling the new day,

I strongly hope

Love lets me feel this day what others have been and done for me

And we begin

Plays from Another Day in Paradise

Feeling a little too tired

Working all day and getting things done

Too many obstacles, some pats on the back

And now we could use a frothy cold one

A car ride home to face the wife and kids

After I had to give away my energies all day

Last chance to get rid of those last