DRINK ME IN, DRINK IN ALL OF ME
If I could just drink in oceans of you
Grab the picture off the wall
Open wide,
my mouth,
to fill.
Pour in the ocean,
the ocean of you.
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I peer in closer to the misplaced fruit. There is something here—sitting in this moment. Something to see in this apple in the rain…
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It’s spring and there’s a lot of NEW NEW NEW! New names, new location, new sites, new, new, new!
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I’m realizing more and more it’s less and less about what we do and more and more about how He wants us to experience Him and His outpouring of Love, Mercy, and Grace—His total and complete Goodness, Kindness and Faithfulness saturating our lives. Because it is only from the place that we can’t contain it, that it must overflow. And when it overflows in us, it overflows out of us—flooding the lives of those around us.
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In the midst of my deadline and to do’s, it didn’t make sense for me to go outside and lay down for 10min or write this for that matter…and yet …what has been the fruit of it? I know it now…
So much more.
There will be more fruit in our lives His way, then our own efforts of striving.
The moment we lay down, we see the Eternal Sky before us.
And it changes things…
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There is a song echoing across the plains,
The greatest song,
the song of all songs.
Waiting in the sunset to be sung.
From the hilltops and mountains
to the valleys below.
Echo,
echo,
echo...
Who is this coming up from the wilderness
leaning on her beloved?
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And the waking continued.
I kept hearing the word again every morning.
“She gets up while its still dark.”
And I began to ask.
God why would she get up while its still night?
Why would you wake me into such dark?
Why would I get up in such dark, when I could be tucked warm in the covers...?
And stay in winter hiding
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“Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.”
That’s stranger than fiction.
So strange, you can’t make it up.
Strange Thorns.
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I approached the bench.
Cringing.
Knowing it was me.
The gavel went up.
The verdict came down.
"Not guilty.”
Tight eyes open.
I stumble away confused.
I sit with no breath.
Disbelief.
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I had been eager to be summoned to jury duty. I wanted to be a part. It seemed like an adventure. It was. But a different kind of adventure than I had expected. 60 potential jurors. Stories laid bare, some still untold. As their stories unfolded. I heard another one unfold as I looked and listened. And he brought to mind the picture and words God spoke to me on a quiet morning walk.
““The gavel is up. The verdict is down. Not guilty.”
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“Forget dwelling on the former things, the past and its failures, its disappointments and shame. Behold I am doing a new thing!! I am resurrecting it all. I am making beautiful that which was in the ashes of mourning. Look, here it comes to sprout. Do you see it??! Do you perceive the new life?..."
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Magical Eclipse.
There seems to be a romance beginning. Sun kissed kindness, recompense.
Moon encountered Sun. All her inhibitions undone.
The heavens rend, a glance, a stare. Blind-sided with love.
All other faces stare at Her back. She turned to the Sun.
She began again. Reborn.
Her revelation in part. Soon to be full.
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Whoa, the brevity of the eclipse and it shadow falling! I imagined what it would be like under the brief fleeting shadow of the eclipse. I imagined all humanity looking up to witness it. I felt our own briefness, our smallness...
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Listen, sh shhhhhh listen, do you hear the morning rise?
Listen, shhh listen, my child, do you hear the waking of the skies?
Listen, listen! Do you hear the colors ring?
Listen, just listen, and hear the mercies sing!
Listen, my child, listen, do you hear the new appear?
Listen, my dear child, listen, the dawning day is near...
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I've been obsessed with the moon for years. Its amazing. Technically its the same thing coming into the sky each day. Yet it can be captured so many ways, as it peeps in and out behind clouds, catches a brilliant color from the sun or comes in close to sit on the horizon to dine with the earth's inhabitants.
Then God began to reveal His romance to me through the moon. A passionate romance that continues through day and night...
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It all began when I was exhausted and worn out to a breaking point. Then I heard Him whisper, "Come away with me and I will restore your life."
So I took Him literally. And did. Within 5 days I booked a solo trip to Lake Michigan.
And there I began to learn to rest. Rest in Him and learn His unforced rhythms of grace...
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As I was about to leave the grass to cross the street I looked down and saw the top spider and his zig zag roller coaster creation capturing more dew and reflecting so much light. This was it, this is what He wanted to say...
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