We are all born. Pieces of Heaven. With our own glimpses of revelation. In us. Through us. God with us….from the time we enter….Creation. But then, “The Drift” takes over. Like gravity, running through us….pulling us down….to earths level. Making us into cold, intellectual, mathematical………controllable types of people. Making decisions apart from Divine’s wisdom. Because reasons. […]
I see him. Greeting time. Standing in the back of the church. Against the wall. Coffee. Small talk. People wondering….how long they must chat…..before sitting idol for service again. Tall one. 6 foot plus. Long haired. Giant. Biker-like. Straggly hair. Leather wearing. Intimidating one. Alone. No one introducing. Not fitting in with….the one’s around him mindlessly […]
Word Unspeakable. Offensive. Disreputable. Disrespectable. Disregardable to many. And it makes me question….. This word….is it part of our being? And do we often run from. Reject. Disown things that reflect pieces of ourselves we don’t like? The word? Homeless. And I question…. Does this word offend us….because Home isn’t in us? And this world…..though beautiful. […]
Delight in the Lord. For there is joy in His presence. Eternal pleasure at His right hand. A River of Delight flowing from His Magnificence. And yet……we fail to walk in the fullness of His presence. Many searching for the ticket to salvation. Yet, turn from the full abundance of His Spirit. Joy not in segments […]
We had not even left. When seeds stirred restless in my soul….. To return. China. Something more….than any place I have known before. God seed sprouting….planted four years earlier. In a dream. Seeing Asian children, inside an orphanage. And never imagining I would have really been there. The faces. The people. Somehow not foreign. Soil moistened…..by […]
The first words out of my mouth when I saw her was…. “She is dead”. Lifeless head. Body wrapped in blankets a mile high. Her skin transparent….. Weighing somewhere around five pounds. This delicate shell lay there…. On plywood. Screaming one. Beside her. Face born open between nose and mouth. Cleft lip. The cry of a […]