Jun 21 2021
I was at the ocean recently, which was a rare treat. As I lay on the sand, soaking in the sun, I noted all the sounds in the air: Murmurs of voices and shouts of playing children. Seagulls. The music from someone’s speaker. A plane overhead. But it was the sound of the waves …
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Oct 08 2020
There are no coincidences with God! He brings His bride through, back, and into new seasons—always leaving her with signposts of grace along the way. This post is one of those…a turning point that led to a long 5 year “winter” season for writing on the Song. But that is done now. The past is behind, (Chapter 1) and ahead is a new, unchartered season with God and the Song.
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Jul 23 2020
Seek Him who made the Pleiades and Orion; and Who turns the shadow of death into morning. – Amos 5:8
Last week I had an off day. A few of them, actually, feeling lost, disconnected, and weak from an internal spiritual battle. (which really, is just a form of the original one) On this …
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Apr 19 2020
Confusion. Hype. Mis-information mixed with information. With an open mind to both mainstream and alternative news about the Coronavirus/Covid-19 pandemic, a discovery is soon made that nobody can be fully trusted. Not those in the limelight, nor those in the underground. Everyone is operating with partial knowledge at best, or diabolical agendas at worst.
It’s ironic, living in an “age of information,” how un-informing (or deforming) it really is!
As for having anything more to add to the subject, I just have what I already wrote here, and the rest I leave for those who have other spiritual insights.
Overwhelmingly — my sense is that the Spirit is CRYING through all the chaos, for the Bride to make herself ready, and to seek a Kingdom that does not shake. (See Hebrews 12:26-28 and Revelation 19:7) I also keep hearing “three years” in my Spirit, and yet I don’t know if that is for just for me, for the world, or for what exactly.
But as a response to the Spirit’s call, and in returning to a study of the Song, (there will be a new post in a few days, Lord willing!) — my prayer is for a DEEP anchor in the tide that is pulling me/us away from a focused relationship on Christ and HIS Kingdom. The foundations of this world is quickly shifting under our feet. Which way they shift matters little — when our ETERNAL house is built on the Rock.
Beware of deception, the Spirit reminds us. Trust only God, and those sources that move your spirit to love, to be pure, and to go hard after Christ. The rest is shaky sand!
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Apr 02 2020
The last few weeks I noticed it’s been more difficult than usual to sit down and write. Part of this is a concern for how the Covid-19 pandemic is impacting the world. It is surreal, isn’t it, to know everyone is in the same boat, rocking to the same storm? I feel like the world is somewhere between hanging on for dear life, and trying to find a new rhythm to something that does not seem to be going away anytime soon.
I have confidence I’ll be returning to the Song soon. It’s interesting where we left off, too! But meanwhile it seems important right now to en-COURAGE one another in whatever way possible, as often as possible. I need it. I know we all need it.
Recently I recalled a poem that the Spirit gave me some years ago during a stormy time.
I’d like to share it today, with a prayer that it might bless somebody…
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Feb 06 2020
Do you know the song Artificial Flowers by Bobby Darin? It’s about an orphan girl forced to make paper decorations for rich women’s hats. She dies and finds out that God has a special garden just for her, with real flowers she doesn’t have to abrade her little fingers on.
This touching song was shared with me several years ago, and then recalled this week when reflecting on the Shulamite’s story. I’ve also been thinking about my own past and wondering what to share about it. We all have them, I know: stories of abuse, regrets, or both. The Shulamite woman talks about hers briefly, because she has moved on.
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🥀 … One of the things I’d like to mention is …
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Nov 05 2019
Before jumping into a new schedule writing about the Song of Songs, I thought it best to share a more personal note first, to sort of ease into things a bit. But at the same time, I don’t know how to do this exactly! For sometimes life has hurricane-like “twists and turns” that seem to stun us for awhile, making it almost impossible to put into words what just happened, or how it happened. It helps to know we are in a spiritual “war,” however. And sometimes there will be setbacks. But it doesn’t feel good to suffer an injury, or have regrets. This is what the following post wants to address.
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Jan 23 2015
Do you believe in Me, even after what you see?
Blessed are you they who are not offended in Me..
It’s been so long since writing here on the blog – I hope it doesn’t come over as too shocking. :-) Many of you know the wind of change …
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