The True REAL

I'll tell you, this past few years have put more age in my spiritual life than anything before.

Folks I trusted, betrayed me.
People I loved, left me.
Superiors I obeyed, disappointed me, lied to me, and shunned me.

What a whirlwind.  Truly, the refiner's fire.

Though God remained constant & ever-present.
God, His infinity kept me.
As I let go of so many, I held tighter to my Jesus.

How well I learned to lean.

No matter how far I fell; how disgraced I was; how rejected I felt:
God was even lower.  No, don't you see.  Never could I be lower
than God and his presence.

God has felt All.
God knows Low.

&

God lifts Up.

I am a living Psalm, a today Psalm, a Psalm of Ascent.

Oh, I lift my eyes to the Lord
from where does my help come?  (Ps. 121)

Those are living words and I live them and am a part of them
and was created by them to glorify Him forever.

And, forevermore.

LOVE WITH EVERYTHING

You know, it is pretty new.
I'd say in the past year this feeling inside has been born.

It has deepened me.
It has changed me.
It has brought me to a new life.

I LOVE ALL PEOPLE

That is what 'it' is, reader.

I LOVE ALL PEOPLE

That was not there two years ago or even a year.  No, not at all inside me was it.
It is new, as I tell you.
And, it is a Gift from The Giver

Yes, a Gift.    A Gift from holy God.

Love frees me. There is no more work, really.
Love opens me to relax and be unfettered from anxiety and worry and stress.
Love gives that to me.  Do I love as Christ loves?   That Love?

The kind of Love which embraces without a thought.
The sacrificial Love that offers without waiting for the payback.
The beautiful Love every child can express without a word spoken.

Yes, I believe, children possess this Love;
then, forget it for the complications of the world have beset them.

Pray God, that perhaps, have I become a child once over, and so old as I am can wonder
in that Love known as a youngster

Before the world
changed
my heart;

only to have God
hand it straight
back to me.

BUT IT IS SO VERY SIMPLE

Well, it is so simple, really.

Loving and Following Jesus is a 'Yes' to Life.
A 'Yes' to Love.  And, a 'Yes' to Loving All People.

Yet, the hard part is placing oneself in front of the Divine thereupon blocking
Him out: His whispers, His calls, His urgings toward Himself.

The world with the noise does that so simply.  The world places itself in front of the Divine and
at times it is so quiet and muffled one cannot hear the Christ.

There are options for those who can choose:  Silence, Apartness, Separation.
I have chosen my fair share of the three to listen more deeply to my Jesus.

Today, as a near 59 year old woman, Jesus spoke to my soul when I was very young.
'Come to Me'

I listened and heard those words each and every day, growing louder and more and more intense they were.  They boxed my ears.  The Christ is the insistent one!  I couldn't have been but 22 when the scream of Him began and to ignore was to bleed.

Today, old as I have become, the lessons are straight forward.

Do God's Bidding
Do it quickly
Do it until you know different.

And, that, friend, may take the Time of your life!