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Way Maker

November 19, 2020 Blooms and Thorns2 Comments

PSALMS 40:3

He put a new song in my mouth,
a hymn of praise to our God.
Many will see and fear the Lord
and put their trust in him.

“When hope has eluded me and I can see nothing but the pain within which I sit, I remember that a horizon cannot exist without two sides; the one I can see and the one that I cannot.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

Resting in Gods Promise……

He makes a Way when there is no Way….

Great is His Faithfulness…..

So busy in the crisis that is in my life..trying to survive and reaching depths of ruin..at every turn….where my words of prayer are paralyzed from my voice…and yet….

Holy Spirit is poured through me….

Spirit steps up and begins to plead for me..carrying my prayers to God….He begins to stir my heart with a Hope that is supernatural..

I have given God countless reasons not to love me. None of them has ever been strong enough to change Him.

Yet through those storms, He Changed Me…..and continues to do so….His strength is mine to hold to…and I hold tightly..

I am at the depths of done…everything that my life was..is no more…I should be quite conditioned to ruin…seems before 2020…God moved mountains while my eyes were still shut..

It is with great truth…I AM NOW given High Sight….

Awakened ..eyes and heart wide open….. I am being restored..

This is something that sounds amazing..

yet….

It is brutal and I am stripped to bare bones…

I allow such and cry..into my cup of Faith…

“Peace is not elusive. It’s just that we want to create it, which doesn’t really make it elusive. It makes it impossible. Yet, the peace that I have is in remembering that with God, nothing is impossible.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

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Hunger of The Soul

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If I cried out, who would hear me up there, among the angelic orders? Rainer Maria Rilke

We reach for words to speak in a voice that is both intimate and majestic on the mysteries of human life and our attempt….. to translate the angels language…..

to use our self-consciousness to some advantage…. to transcend…. through our art and the imagination…. our self-deception and our fear.

There is no gentle here, but oh how it longs to be tender, and oh how it yearns to be soft.

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh

Far Side of Blooming

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“None of us is promised an easy life. There is nothing we can do to keep ourselves immune to trials, and we cannot eradicate painful feelings in our lives.
But even the most difficult seasons are not absent of God’s love. And this love changes us. This is what I want to tell you: on the far side of pain we don’t prefer, we find transformation we wouldn’t trade.”
― Nicole Zasowski, From Lost to Found:

Seems we have always been next door to Heaven…..

Like a glimpse in the peripheral vision…..the feeling is ever so quick, yet runs so deep in the marrow… you feel the wind of its calling….its moment…and you touch that glimpse all day long and each time..the heart expands and the anticipation in the Spirit vibrates….

We watch as clouds shape shift and break out into beautiful colors of our imaginations…..

we squint to squeeze a bit more time into the sensation….

At that very moment…gateways are opening…bridges crossed, vanish…and the most splendid horrible relief comes over you….

Breathe deep dear travelers…we are stepping into a new life…and as that might sound so beautiful and full of anticipated happiness…

Realize……Remember…..

.…awakening was a horrible relief…and courage came….while we dared to bloom through it all….

All flowers, in time…bend toward the Sun…….

“It is said there are flowers that bloom only once in a hundred years. Why should there not be some that bloom once in a thousand, in ten thousand years? Perhaps we never know about them simply because this “once in a thousand years” has come today.”
― Zamyatin, We

Chosen

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“Happiness can’t be made; it’s been around since forever… just freely waiting to be chosen.”
― T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise:

The sweet Soul of Light….

Widens the gap…

To a past with no map….

A heart cannot break itself….

It is the eternal part of the awakening process…

to reflect the Self…..back to its true nature….

A dream cannot wake itself….

life is full of precious…..fragile things…..

the sun follows the moon and makes days…..

the world turns….

Time does not waste itself…

“God is gathering a small number of chosen people who will live at the edge of one time shifting to another time. These are the people who will make history”
― Sunday Adelaja

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Far Side of the Moon

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“Practice is the hardest part of learning, and training is the essence of transformation.”
― Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts

Daily, a new door appears…like a domino effect….a new landscape enters the field of vision, and the doorway appears….

We are practicing the experience of the unknowing and by the days gloaming..we lay the day to rest….carry nothing into our slumber…

The dark night of the soul is that which is on display…

Pioneers of this ascension age….recognize the frequencies

Prayer keeps one steady…and elevates Conscious Christed Codes…..

This is for God to work out…

We are serving best…by remaining in our Highest signature…strengthening our Light

No attachment to judgements or fear..

Nothing will ever be the same…..

But we did not want “the same”

Did we not pray for the new way to be born?

It too…is a horrible relief..this transformation….. that we are accepting..as the World…turns…and we face the far side of the moon…..

“Only you can take inner freedom away from yourself, or give it to yourself. Nobody else can.”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

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Future is Quicker than the Eye

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Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than itself.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

When it happens… we are at that perfect pitch of Spirit….

When the deep knowing way and the deep wisdom way is connected…..we know we are walking through the portal of a mystery we have already created…to enter…

It happens as we come into the eventide of our past..of a life we now have seen so deeply…..it has disappeared off our pages of time….with its’ treasures …..all spent

The future we spoke into becoming…yesterday……in a blink of an eye…..transports into a change we have no definition of….

This is the threshold between another day…..and another world…

In that threshold..the world let go ….when we dared not to….

The future..is closer than the reflection reveals…

A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.

Roy H. Williams

Your Internal Whisper

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“We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness…
True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation.
One’s inner voices become audible. One feels the attraction of one’s most intimate sources.
In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. The more coherent one becomes within oneself as a creature, the more fully one enters into the communion of all creatures.”
― Wendell Berry

What does the world look like…after you change it?

Acknowledging the whispers from your inner self……you are left no choice but to have it reflected externally for all to see…..

there are unnamable realities behind the protective illusions of common vision….we are in cosmic relationship to these changes we are orchestrating…..

Look inward….learn from your Heart…..

slow down…and listen……

the Light within you…whispers….the way…..

“Aren’t you grateful for a gentle God? The Almighty could intimidate us with His outside voice, but He woos us with a whisper. And His whisper is the breath of life.”
― Mark Batterson, Whisper: How to Hear the Voice of God

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The Gaps

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“The time we need in order to heal our wounds and finally manifest our deepest dreams is only as long as the gap between two thoughts. These are thoughts in polarity, such as separation and unity, conflict and peace, misery and joy, hate and love, etc. Since as human beings we are all capable of experiencing both thoughts, the only skill we need to develop involves mastering the GAP.”
― Franco Santoro

The gaps in our life is where, no matter how ugly …we stand there…. we feel our Self there…and look…we take no steps…even though…..the instinct is to pull out of that moment and hurry on to something new….desperate to occupy something we will win at…..or at least bluff our way there…

It is in the gap..we can recognize the quality of our interpretations…..it is where we are born again…

Do not rush to fill in these gaps… there is beauty within the gap of silence….. and acceptance within the gap of good-bye….

Someone said, bridges appear, when we move from the gap..

I believe..its in the gap..that we build those bridges….

“You become excellent when you fly at a level that creates a wide gap between where you were before and where you are now. Fly like the eagle; the eagle flies as if it never remembered it was once an egg!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

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Directions of Reflections

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Ecclesiastes 3:11 Yet God has made everything beautiful for its own time

Shards of our stories reflect in the sunlight..of our minds…

Perception shifts with the movement of light upon our pieces…

Memories..both the bitter and sweet…

Meld into a matured flavor here….

this is where we gaze comfortably on the echoes of sorrows…the colors of laughter…. the crossroads of choices…..the distanced moments that stand still for clarity…..

the way nature bends into us..causes perception to expand..beyond the self we are focused upon…

the moment changes direction….

The Light shifts….. and one smiles….

“A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden