Do something Different - Creativity

I have often wondered why I thought the way I think. I see something and imediately I question, in my mind "why it is that way". I don't just accept it the way it is. I think every necklace can be made better, each outfit could match something else I own, each room could have different (better) curtains, plants or decorations.

My dad always said that my mind was constantly working. I would sit in the grass, with monarch butterflys landing on my shoulders and find four leaf clovers. I could not even understand why other people did not notice the extra leaf.

Firstly, I would say, I look for the clovers. I turn over the rock to see the bugs under it. Something in my spirit makes me so curious, that I am compelled to question things.

The point I am trying to make is that God's Holy Spirit makes us restless. The Spirit challenges us. We are called to go forward and we move in that direction because we want things to be better. We want to make a difference.

We could fail, but we still have to try. And we learn from the failure. We stretch and we we become stronger, because we were unsettled.

One of my friends asks "what is God inviting you to?" Really the answer is, that he loves you so much, that he wants you to take a chance. When you take that chance, the possiblility that you'll make things better is right there.

Love is a real mystery

I've been thinking lately about love. It is very hard to define this word. For one thing I see it as action, always a challenge and even quite elusive at times.

The unconditional love (like what God has) is really unbelievable. The closest we come to this is our kids. We look into the crib and we dream, but we know we could some day have to visit a prison, or the north pole, or an African Village for this person, depending on whether they become a missionery, or explorer or even a criminal. But we love them, and that's about as close as we ever get to unconditional. I don't think we really get any closer with friends, parents, or even spouses. We think we can get closer, but in reality I don't think we do. Maybe I'm a negative person, who's not trying hard enough. Perhaps I'm a bit jaded, because I've not felt loved unconditionally.

Actually at this point in my life, my husband has shown me the most love. Kids don't (yet) friends do at times but yeh, the best friend I have is the person I married.

I'm glad I'm the other half. Even though I know it's really two whole people who make a great marriage. It's fun to think that someone completes me. They have some things I admire and they compliment me. That's very rewarding. That's love to me.

It's not at all complicated then. So if you've looked everywhere and looked for a long time, either on E-harmony or next to you in your house. Don't even look at all, just take it in. God is wispering in your ear. "I have given you everything"

"I will never stop giving you what you need" "Surely I would not hold love back from you" "Do not listen to the evil one" "He is the Father of lies"


"I am the Father of Man - I am Love and I cannot be anything else..."

"And the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory...full of grace and truth" John 1:14 NKJV

It's spring again and wow, what a lovely aray of colors, sights, sounds and smells. God is so good and his message is over and over - how we are reborn...I have a heart for those who can touch him at last. I was one of the lost and now am found. I am a sinner and yet Jesus still loves me.

To say that we were once blind and now can see, is just a way of trying to express the wonderful life Jesus has given us. We do not need chemicals to party, we fellowship honestly. We do not need to compete, we are forever complete in our Father.

And most importantly - we belong - We finally belong. Thank God that my eyes were opened - thank God for REBIRTH

Happy
Spring

Snow Snow Everywhere

I've always loved the white stuff, but wow. 2 blizards in 1 week. Where to put all the white stuff. That's the question. I dug my car out (finally) and that put even more snow on the driveway. As I walked each shovel full over to a mound that was taller than myself, I realized this is way to much of a good thing.

Don't we do that- in life. We wish we had something and when it's finally dumped on us, full force we are overwhelmed. Man is not like any other creature, in fact the only things we can't ever have too much of - is love.

See -we are created in the image of God and he actually wants love. He certainly doesn't need us, or our complaints, or our lack of faith. He can make the stars and oceans, these people are just another creation.

Not so, we are the children, So the next time you feel like you would give your child everything (even your life) remember the really big father (GOD) He wants your love and then like the snow we have right now -the blessings drown you, because you can actually see them.

You'll see what I mean, think really big and look at your creator, he's got a ton of great things for you. Even more than you can handle...

Amen

Happy New Year

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing,
some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
Hebrews 13:2

I saw this in a message from Sandy Cove (the retreat place) and it really made my heart soar. I'm a big angel person. Even though I've looked for them throughout the bible and they are usually men. I say that because we depict them as girls with long flowing gowns and that's funny to me. I don't care what they are. I just feel that they are messengers from God and I know that they have been around longer than us. They are bright and seem to bring hope to man.

On the dark side - God's enemy is an angel (Lucifer) which was the bearer of light. He turned and thus started the actual fued that man is now involved in. God wins though- because he made everything. He made us - he made the stars, earth and sun, and he even made Lucifer. That wasn't even a mistake. He just gives free will and with that - we make the errors...

Just wanted to say Happy New Year! - and entertain some angels this year. They bring allot of hope...We need hope...and they know that!

Be One !

I have seen this trivet on my stove a hundred times, but I never really SAW it till today. It tells us "to be a friend", and when I look again - it actually has holly and holly berries. This never meant much to me. But I pray allot and I ask God to tell me things I need to know. I think he showed me this afternoon that this trivet has something to do with Christmas.

My best friend seems to have trials that reveal themselves around the holidays and I fancy myself as the person who can cheer her up. But as my friend shared today and I added words to (hopefully) make her feel better, I realized that she just needs a listener. A friend. To have a friend - I need to be one, especially when my friend is tired. I need to carry her, I need say - "You have a right to those feelings". I need to remember that she is the one who says "Who is the Master"? In an effort to cheer her - I see that she is the one who reminds me of the love Jesus has for us.

It's such a priviledge to have her as a part of my life, because she is the culmination of experiences - high and low- that have made her a true follower of Christ. I admire this quality. It is very priceless.

We are who we are because of times of sadness, of difficulty and just complete adversity. No one would ask for this. It is the exact opposite of what we would want for ourselves or our friends. It's a new thing to seek God in hardship. It's not new to those who have God. They already realized who carries us.

They already know the True friend, that's why they can be one.

Glory Garden

In an effort to lure humming birds to my house, I grow huge morning glory flowers. It is fun to see how much they grow while I'm asleep. They twine around things and try to reach the sky.

We have a corkscrew willow that didn't get leaves but morning glory flowers have given it a nice coat of leaves.

Bees and butterflys go in and out of these trumpets and I am just thrilled at all the activity...

I just weeded today, because I do know that the wild and crazy gardens I grow are not as popular to other people as they are to me...

Sometimes the weeds can be distracting, and taking them out disturbs things for a while. They even try to flower like the other plants, but in the end they have to go!

That's the Glory Garden...

Fellowship

I'm getting so excited to go to a motorcycle rally we go to each year. I love to pack for it and ride up with all our friends. It's a Christain Rally and when I get there - it's a little like getting to the promise land.

The people all love Jesus and I can be myself and worship and praise him.

In the world we are in but not of, I get some looks when I say "praise the Lord" or "praise God"

But this weekend I can scream it from the mountains.

By the way HE made the mountains, so HE really would like some praise for that...too

Can I get an AMEN!

4th of July - Fireworks

Fireworks - the shooting stars man creates...

Holy Spirit - No Mistakes in God's World

My really close friend said each day on a mission trip they sang this song I love about how God is above all fame - the beginning and end. It's the song that says exactly how I feel about Jesus. Some of my friends even comment that I say King Jesus about God. I really feel that the Holy Spirit sent my best friend a song to remind her of the reason she was there. She went to serve the Kingdom and he's the truth, the light and the way and even if there was rain, or bugs, or language barriers she was in the right place...

I read a man once asked Mother Tereasa to pray for God to give him clarity. She said
she would not pray for such a thing because clarity is not how you serve the Kingdom.
It is by faith and trust. We step out and look back and no one else stepped out with us.

I'm glad a song reminded my friend of me, I'm glad it was a song that told how awsome God is. In some ways I feel I was there in spirit, because the holy spirit
that dwells in all of the children of God can travel everywhere and there are no mistakes in God's World...

Not - Kicking and Screaming

I was at a huge event for motorcyclists this week and I saw a person carrying a case in the front of them and thought "what's in that?" After watching for a while, out popped a little head. It was a faret, a weazel of sorts and very cute and content to see the crowd. I thought of how it had just been carried there, totally out of it's element and yet it seemed "ok." It has a master and the master took him to the festival. He had to submit, he's a weazel, what can he do? - he may as well cooperate.

I thought about how we get taken places by life, and we really would rather not go, and we kick and scream, but still, we end up there. We aren't as smart as the weazel. He submits, he recgonizes - hey I'm being taken. I'm way out of my element, not sure what's going to happen, but I'm here - gotta pop out and take a look around.

I think it's just hard to see we are being carried. It's hard to know we have a MASTER. Our MASTER really gives us a huge amount of liberty, so we say, I'm not even sure HE exists, if HE did exist "why would HE allow this" or "why wouldn't HE change that".

Uhm - I'm thinking of being more like the weazel...

What can we see

I thought lately about all the things we depend on - but we do not actually see.
Air - we breathe - so necessary
electricity - we only see the result of it's power
we can't even see love or friendship or the feelings we have,
we only see what they cause to happen.

God is unseen to most of us, he's unheard and just there. We call out - up to the sky he made and expect him to respond.

We put him in a box, like he can be contained or predicted. Wow - we limit what is so powerful we can only dream of understanding a fraction of his plans.

I have faith that his plans are well formed, because he holds the whole book, we see each page, each day, unfold. And we would not even want to see tomorrow. It could bring such sadness or happiness that we would want to play today or tomorrow over a thousand times, but God doesn't allow that.

He says not to worry, not to fret, that he cares for the birds in the trees and the flowers are beautiful, and that tomorrow is promised to none of us.

And yet we plan, we fret, we try to control.

I sat the olther day with a man that said he fully controls his world and that I was now entering into it with my talk of this Lord that was King. All I could think of was the saying that we sought wisdom and became fools.

You are not in Control, God is.
He is the King, we are the servants.
and Jesus took it even farther and said we are his friends, it doesn't get much better than that.

Look Again

Look again into the eyes and see the soul
Look again into the soul and see the hole
Look again into the hole and see the sacrifice
Look again into the sacrifice and see the Love
Look again into the Love and see GOD