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Conviction and condemnation can feel the same if conviction never gets acted on.
Conviction always has a way forwards. Condemnation keeps us weighted and chained.
Conviction is a touch from God, condemnation a hand around the ankle from hell.
Continue reading “Of whispers and ways”
We have a pair of very pretty but very tall bedside lamps in our bedroom which I have to grab and tip sideways to reach the switch to turn off when laying in bed – so when one of us goes to bed before the other, we leave a small battery operated touch lamp on its lowest setting so the other can see their way – and turn it off easily.
Continue reading “Love that flattens mats and leaves a light on”
What if the answer is just so simple that we are the problem for not just accepting it as such?
VSP 🙂
Pandora
Unlike Pandora, it wasn’t curiosity that made me open the box. I had prayed for either peace or revealing. The box was open when I found it, and there was a revealing. In and of itself, it was an answer to prayer.
Continue reading “Pandora”
SEE
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See yourself.
See yourself standing in your spot on the planet.
See yourself in your spot on the planet
as a singular dot existing in a sphere of time.
See your dot on the planet in the sphere of time within another sphere
called “the lower heavens”.
See your dot on the planet in its place in time in the lower heavens
in the never-ending multi-dimension called eternity.
When we first moved into our current house twenty-something years ago, we had these lovely neighbours to our right that became like an extra set of grandparents. Bob-Bob would walk their lovely lumbering dog Rufus past our house each afternoon…
Continue reading “Intangible grief”
One particular time a few years back when I was major-league stressed about something, I was driving along a road close to home thinking over and over “I don’t know what to do, I don’t know what to do” – when I came upon a traffic jam where I could neither see the problem nor where I needed to go.
My cry of “I don’t know what to do” was immediately applied to the road situation where visibility was so bad.
This turned out to be one of those amazing moments when God spoke so clearly through the circumstance at hand to show me something much bigger and which I will never forget. I felt the words “the way will become clear” somewhere deep inside and as I inched forward through a messy convergence of truck and traffic and narrow road and road works, bit by bit I could see what I needed to do next.
So many times in life we are faced with new, difficult, stressy things that if we wait, and watch, and follow the way marked out bit by bit, we’ll get to the other side of the thing and see we did Ok. And more importantly, that we were Helped.