Pause in WONDERMENT

PONDERS AND WONDERS: The theme for the New Year is PAUSE!! I began on New Years Day reading "The Power of Pause" by Terry Hershey. As always I am again in serious transformation!! Today my parents and I traveled for over 4 hours through the beautiful countryside...The majesty of God was apparent everywhere I looked...of course He is always everywhere but do I PAUSE and take time to see Him, enjoy Him, thank Him, breathe in ALL His goodness....this PAUSE will take time for me to truly "get it". Last year was all about the Sabbath, I now realize that was just the beginning of the new journey....like this week I finally realized that the Lord created the Sabbath for HIM!! Yep not for me to rest up so I can work harder and better the following week...actually it is NOT ABOUT ME....yep I know that in my head, so why do I act otherwise....HE BLESSED IT FOR HIM...and I am invited to the rest....to PAUSE, to experience HIM!! It is going to be a wonderful year...stop and smell the roses before they are in bloom....BIG WONDERFUL SWEET SIGH...love you Jesus

Auld Lang Syne

PONDERS AND WONDERS: An amazing year comes to an end, funny how by the end of the year I am always ready for the New Year to begin. I take time to cherish the wonderful amazing ways God has made Himself known, I take time to check and clean out my heart....better to start fresh in every area.....but this year has been a magnificent year. God has seriously touched and changed me this year. Each year I say that....but this year seems deeper, my soul is quieter, more at peace, more contented, more expectant.....so as the New Years song goes, should old acquaintance be forgot???? Well He is more than an acquaintance, more than a friend, more than a husband and lover....HE IS my stronghold, my fortress, my King and Lord....Dear Jesus I thank you for your sweet love and mercy....may the New Year be filled with MORE MORE and MORE of YOU and Less, less, less of me.....love you Jesus

A hollow reed...God's instrument

PONDERS AND WONDERS: It has been such a long time since I took time to sit and capture all that God is up to in my life. This Sabbath Day....a good day to return to the keyboard :) This past year I have been focused on Sabbath Rest...not just taking it easy on Sunday....however entering the state of being where all things are viewed and experienced through His rest....a long year of practice and exercise, I have made progress with more to come.
However today, I want to talk abour the past couple of weeks. Recently a friend sent me this wonderful devotional....here is the snippet that has been my focus to ponder:

"This is one of our fears of quiet; if we stop and listen, we will hear this emptiness. . .But this emptiness has nothing at all to do with our value or our worth. All life has emptiness at its core; it is the quiet hollow reed through which the wind of God blows and makes the music that is our life. Without that emptiness, we are clogged and unable to give birth to music, love, and kindness." Wayne Muller

A hollow reed...as I have devoted my self to this meditation God has given me so many opportunities to witness the serious effect of clogging...I have a friend who had to have Heart ByPass this week....when the surgeon came out, he was so excited to explain that the right side of the heart had been depleted for quite a while from blood supply. He did not know if they could even find a place to bypass the clog..but they did and he said it was remarkable "As soon as the heart began to beat with the new open vessel the depleted area of the heart began to come back to life and fill out"
Funny how the key to fullness is emptiness. The more I forgive, the more forgiveness that can flow to me and from me, the more I praise the more praise that can fill and flow.....a new life of fluidity....FILL and FLOW until EMPTY....WOW what a wonderful journey....thank you Jesus for the wonderful place of hearing your wind blow.
love ya Jesus.

The Beginning

PONDERS AND WONDERS: Today I traveled home from Birmingham to the Bay....it was a long and reflective journey both physically and in my being. Just 10 days ago I made the same journey, same road, same trees, same car, same whining dog (hahahaha), and yet today it seems like a lifetime has passed. I am different!
I witnessed God this week capture people with His incredible love. Fresh awareness that He is the only true source of Love. My miserable sad sorry selfish self is incapable of setting me aside to love another....HOWEVER with the incredible indwelling of the Holy Spirit, I find myself overcome by HIMSELF! I am humbled and overcome by the magnitude of His love, the effect of His love on others and the ever deepening desire to dive deeper still!
Today was a beginning of a new chapter....a chapter of deeper love, deeper abandonment to the will of God, a deeper level of recognition of how deep and wide is the love of God....I pray for a new beginning for all those involved, the participants, the supporters, the onlookers...all the starfish that were touched by the hand of a loving God.....ooooooo my Lord, you are SO incredible, ALPHA and OMEGA....there are no words to describe your majesty only the beating of my heart and the taking in of breath...for which you are totally responsible.....such LOVE,

Harmony

PONDERS AND WONDERS: Today I had the incredible opportunity to see a glimpse of scripture fullfilled. How good it is when brothers dwell together in unity, or in another translation Harmony. SO looking at the work harmony, it means when people all sing a note...VERTICAL...that together it sounds like one note in differnt tones....cool isnt that what unity and harmony really means.
That not matter the race, gender, generation or denomination we can compliment another, dwell together and vertically seek the Lord....I saw that today as the Stirring of the soils took place in Birmingham.
People brought their dirt....stirred it together as a symbol....from different states, cultures, races, and generations....how wonderful it will be when we every tribe and tounge bow in worship...unitl then today was a sweet opportunity to experience Heaven on Earth...
thank you JESUS....it was so cool...love you