Category: love

Art, love, poetry, spirituality

    But first…LOVE A peek outside reminds us the throes of winter are still here. Winter is an essential part of the life cycle here in a Northern spot. It rebirths life each spring. In true love relationships such seasons may come and go also. We regularly seek to renew our first love with each other and Him. We are not automatic renewal beings. There will come a ‘winter time’ from which we must arise and come back to our first love (for a husband/wife and in Him).

    My love, the essence of this home is foundational in our love for each other. Each day we beat our brains out accomplishing huge list of things for just that cause. We don’t do them just “because we have to”, but because it is foundational to the whole family. Our parents didn’t do it for any different reasons, they just may not have been as fully aware of the why’s and how’s of it all. We know well the issues of the homes we grew up in…the strengths and weaknesses, everything as a whole.

    My beloved, the essence of My Church is built in a foundation of love in Me and to each other. Don’t kill yourself in My Name for the cause! You don’t just obey because you “have to”, but because you love Me. This is a house built on the Rock! I love you in all your strengths and weaknesses and I brought you up in a way to train you to hear Me.

    I remember the earliest days of courtship how we were both caught up in wonder…knowing He really was bringing us together. From the outside it may not have looked as obvious, but we knew pretty quickly what He was bringing together. It will soon be 25 years since that first Memorial Day weekend. I won’t call it all a breeze, but I will say it is all cherished as great experience!

    I remember the early days of accepting Him. I wasn’t one in awe and wonder. Rather, I was just wondering! He did give me a desire to follow Him and learn His Word. It was almost 20 years later He taught me about relationship with Holy Spirit! It isn’t far from another 20 and I cherish the years and seasons.

    I came home from a conference one year a changed man. Certainly has not been without a rollercoaster ride or two, but He keeps bringing back to a renewed sense of His Holy Spirit explosion from there. That experience reset love in me. I believe it was a melding of my first loves….salvation and baptism of Holy Spirit. A renewal and new anointing to boot! It further allows me to write, which is of course the very foundation of my gifts. He has been busy on my poor heart, removing clutter, unbelief, and (non)essential  cargo. He is showing me there is no reason to be distraught, angry, despondent, depressed, or any of the rest!! I just have to walk in it. “I create my world and walk in it!” is a quote I relate to. He has been showing me that in spite of myself, I can walk in it!!

    He is calling us to come together in a big way (and we have been) for the kids, our marriage, and supporters of each other’s destinies. My love…I love back and look at how it all just makes sense why He chose us as partners. We are called to be great loving counterbalances to each other. As He puts renewal to my first loves for Him, He also increases them for us!!

   He is calling US to come together in big ways for the Body, our betrothal to Him, and to support each other’s destinies. My beloved, I love you back as I chose you to partner with Me!

He is my truest love. I see why He has placed us in Him and with each other. He calls us to love Him above all else. He created mankind to love Him, a balance that no one can counter.

burden bearing, empath, encouragement, love, spirituality, Uncategorized

Re;Pink

   The first question that pops into my head in beginning this word bomb is ‘what REALLY is inner healing with God’? My friends and I may throw it around, but do trust me, many do not go around saying things like…’hey dude, how’s the inner healing rollin’ today?’ or…’let’s do some inner healing over some Starbucks’…or…try this on date night…’how about we work on some inner healing between dinner and the 8:30 movie?’. Somehow there must be a way He takes us to our need for it, a pathway, previously unseen opening before us like an open road adventure. ‘Honey, I’m not sure I’m feeling like an inner healing tonight!’

    I think we have all been there before. The crossroads of tough decisions bearing down on us. I know I do this…I give it a good wrestling in my spirit man (as if he needs the exercise!), perhaps so God knows I am meaning business here! I have heard it said and I kind of chuckle whenever I hear it “God hasn’t fallen off the throne dealing with your little issue”. It is something conceptually I have learned about Him and I find true-He doesn’t grade on a curve, and there aren’t levels of severity. He is Lord over the big and small and that covers it all. Why the heck we get soooo worked up over a seemingly bigger problem goes well beyond the size of my head. Why is it so challenging for us pea brains to accept the power of victory that is right there?

    I don’t know, just talking out loud here, but it seems that God does utilize some truth anyway from the phrase ‘desperate times call for…’. See, don’t even have to finish that one, we all know it. There is something to the desperate getting healed in the Word. I always see the obedience in it too. When Elijah shows up to ‘get help from the widow’ both their minds had to be racing a million miles a minute! ‘Oh sure, this ends well, I have to count on this widow feeding me her last meal instead of feeding her poor sons who are about to be property of someone else’. I am sure the widow’s mind is equally interesting…’ya, this guy is some prophet…but I better obey…but who does this? Comes in here asking to be fed first’. I guess that was more of an outer healing…Jesus had encounters with several that I would more determine the inner healing. The guy he freed of thousands of demons and sent them to seweycide…I would say that is a darn good inner healing-to go from gnashing of teeth, chains, etc, to testifying what Jesus did…that my friends is a good inner healing day!!!

    What is it that takes our heart from a cold, black stone to a bright fleshly pink? A person can change a certain amount on their own. It is one thing to protect yourself from what’s happened in your life, to make good changes, and to separate yourself out. It requires supernatural assistance to have a genuine change in your heart. When Jesus was preparing to leave he said ‘I will leave you a helper’. The helper is the Holy Spirit. That is one of the many benefits of believing in Jesus. The Holy Spirit is there to help you live in victory, healing, and get free. I have heard a saying from some mentors in my life: the Holy Spirit is a gentleman, He comes when you ask. The unique thing about Christianity is the last shall be first. This means in this context that we must humble ourselves and surrender our baggage. If we were enough to start with, we would’ve already figured it out. He created a free will relationship that only works when we surrender and handed over to Him.

Bible, empath, encouragement, love, spirituality, Uncategorized

R.W.B. Pearls 12-16-17

We have all been encouraged through the faith (church, sermons, etc) to be givers. Sacrificially, completed, as He leads we should give what He asks. But is there anything more disappointing than giving the best gift you have to someone who is bad at receiving? Be a good receiver in Christ! No one should ever doubt any prayer/encouragement they offered you by your response (or lack of one). There have been times I have had to see what God is up against! I told Him once or twice “God I love you so much, but what the blast is wrong with the people here?!!!!”