God Sings

There is something about mockingbirds

 that just gets to me... 

mysteriously their songs touch my heart 

and bring such peace. 

Through the years, there have been times

when circumstances were bleak,

when life was challenging,

when I was hurting,

that a mockingbird would 

sing to me

from their nearby perch. 

One time in particular, the mocking bird's song 

was so incredibly comforting to my soul.

I was in the midst of a time of separation and divorce. 

My heart was raw. 

My eyes, puffy from abundant tears. 

I pulled into my driveway, windows still down, 

allowing the spring breezes to fill my car, to fill my senses. 

A mockingbird's song, floated my way, on the breeze. 

I couldn't move. 

His notes echoed in the night air. A quietness filled me that 

went beyond words. I sat in my car simply immersed in 

peace, this mockingbird's gift. 

After some time, I went inside my home. I opened the

 windows in my bedroom so I could hear this 

song I found so mesmerizing.

It was too faint. I gathered pillow and blanket and 

ended up sleeping on my living room 

sofa just so my ears would continue to be filled with 

this gift of song that brought my saddened soul such 

incredible calmness and comfort. It felt like God was

singing peace deeply into my heart, through a bird.  

I will never forget that night. 

I fell asleep being serenaded 

by God, through a bird.

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I started a new job this week. I've experienced excitement 

as well as apprehension. I want this job to be one where I 

just fit, where I am successful and contribute to the 

company's bottom line. I'm ready for a company 

I can work with for years.  

Yesterday and today, 

the air was permeated with the mockingbird's song, 

both at home and at work. 

As I took my lunch break today, my heart was 

once again comforted by the gift of the mockingbird's song.  


Perched on the topmost branch, the mockingbird sang


his exuberant song, as if it was just for me!

I stepped outside again,  for an afternoon break. 

I smiled at the familiar song as I walked among

beautiful surroundings; trees blooming, grass greening. 

Could it be a consequence that the mockingbird's song fills 

the air again in the midst of this season of my life? 

Perhaps, but I don't believe in consequences.

Marie ~ Wingdreamer

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Deuteronomy 31:6 "Be strong. Take courage. Don't be intimidated. Don't give them a second thought because God, your God, is striding ahead of you. He's right there with you. He won't let you down; he won't leave you." 

The Message Bible

^{Psalm 104: 12} "The birds of the sky nest by the waters;
   they sing among the branches."  NIV

 Matthew 6:26
"Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?" NIV

Around the Next Bend in the Road

Barn on a country road in Roswell Georgia

We don't know what's around 

the next bend in the road...

...but Jesus does.

Isa 45:2 (AMP) I will go before you and level the mountains [to make the crooked places straight]; I will break in pieces the doors of bronze and cut asunder the bars of iron.

Happy Trails to You

All of us long for Happy Trails

to be the paths we travel on.

We need the wind to catch our sails,

guiding us toward a brighter dawn! 

We desperately want to fly above clouds,

higher than we can imagine,

 to hear God's glory, shouting loud!

God cannot be contained,

yet He chooses to dwell

within us

if we ask Him to.

Then, even if the roads we travel

are difficult and steep,

they will be happy trails

because He walks with us

and dwells inside us.

Happy Trails! 

Wingdreamer

 

 

 

 

Purpose in our pain

When burdens are too heavy 

and life doesn't make sense,

splash in puddles, dance in the rain!

When you feel unsteady 

and life's challenges are intense,

trust God in the troubles, 

there's purpose in the pain!

There is 

purpose in our pain.

Flowers grow 
because of rain.

There is

design in our afflictions.

There are
lessons to be learned 

in the midst of our troubles

There is a 
reason for the suffering.

There is a 
sunrise after every stormy night.

There is hope

even in the depths of our despair. 

Because....

our divine Creator 

has a plan

and He sees

the end

and has come back

dancing...

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His intentions are honorable

toward us, His children.

He is shaping

molding 

transforming

us...

into 

HIS

image

through the 

pain.

Through the afflictions.

Through the sufferings.

Through the troubles.

Through the stormy nights.

Through the despair.

 

Even when our view

is blurred by tears,

Our Father God

is closer than our breath,

so very near... 

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I've been familiar with

struggles and tears

stress and fears... 

I'm pretty sure you are too...


More importantly and profoundly, 

Jesus is familiar with our griefs and pain. 



He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering. Like one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 
Isaiah 53:3 New International Version (©1984)

 "We are not “acquainted with grief” in the same way our Lord was acquainted with it. We endure it and live through it, but we do not become intimate with it." ~ Oswald Chambers 

I believe Jesus became intimate with grief through the cross, but also by living on this earth, like we do. He really understands what it's like when we suffer and we hurt.
He "gets" us when we suffer and we hurt. 
Don't we all long for someone to just "get" us?

Hurting and longing for encouragement? 

Here is something to look forward to: Revelation 21:4

These are powerful and comforting reminders: Romans 5:3 - 5

 2 Corinthians 12:10

 James 1:2

 Romans 8:35

Learning to fly.... Wingdreamer

River of His Delights

Nothing on this earth

really 

satisfies. 

We will only be fully satisfied in You, Father God.

Please, help us to fully get this!

 

When we awake

may we be 

satisfied 

with seeing

Your likeness.

May we 

behold

Your 

face.

"Glimpses of glory good men have here below to stay their sacred hunger, but the full feast awaits them in the upper skies. Compared with this deep, ineffable, eternal fulness of delight, the joys of the worldling are as a glowworm to the sun, or the drop of a bucket 

to the ocean." 

From "The Treasury of David."

Psalm 36:8 

Psalm 16:11

Psalm 17:15

 

 You want us to be abundantly satisfied...watered.

The Hebrew word - רוה râvâh - means to drink to the full; to be satisfied, or sated with drink; or to be satisfied or filled with water, as the earth or fields after an abundant rain: Isaiah 34:7; Psalm 65:10. The state referred to by the word is that of one who was thirsty, but who has drunk to the full; who feels that his desire is satisfied: 

From Barnes Notes on the Bible.

Of the river - The abundance. Not a running fountain; not a gentle bubbling rivulet; not a stream that would soon dry up; but a "river," large; full; overflowing; inexhaustible. 

From Barnes Notes on the Bible.

I looked up the words delights and pleasures mentioned in Psalm 36:8. (They will be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of your house; and you will make them drink of the river of your pleasures.) The word pleasures and delights comes from the word Eden! 

I don't know about you, but I didn't know that! ,

Strong's Concordance #5730 עֵדֶן `eden {ay'-den}or (fem.) עֶדְנָה `ednah {ed-naw'}

Eden the garden God created for Adam and Eve, 

means pleasures and delights. Wow! You desire for us to drink 

from the river of Eden. You long for us to return to the

simplicity of the garden of delights and pleasures, in YOU. 

In You...

Only in You

will we be satisfied.

Only in You

will we be delighted.

Only in You

will we take pleasure.

We are still able to walk in the cool

of Edenlike morning with you, 

as we realize

our pleasure

our delight

is in You.

Wingdreamer

A Writer's Life

A writer’s life is lonely at times.

Keyboards and pens are my friends.

Late nights bring words and rhymes. 

My reward is that life is penned,

on the roller-coaster that’s my life story.

Writing about endless dark nights,

reveling in morning’s glory.

Composing, I guess really ignites

a passion within, finding I’m dancing

as words flow out onto the page,

perhaps a kind of romancing 

is going on, it’s not just a phase,

or a fascination, it’s a love affair

of the ardent kind, a fiery tale, 

inspiration breathed as a prayer.

Listening to God inhale and exhale,

whispering creation though my fingers.

I ask, will words I write make a difference?

He answers, smiling, His Spirit lingers...

Yes, if I write through you, they’ll shine with brilliance.

Together we’ll make an imprint on souls

inspiring, encouraging and lifting hearts

bringing healing and making them whole,

with the miracle that the written word imparts.

© Copyright 2012 Marie Nease

God Hung the Moon

I have such peace tonight,

though circumstances are unsettled. 

God goes before us and prepares the way...

He hung the moon in the sky 

He set stars in intricate patterns in the sky

and their light sparkles miraculous into our night... 

How can I not trust Him? 

He is so much bigger than my little irritations and earthly struggles. 

"Itty bitty problems, big big GOD."

Tommy Tenny spoke a simple, powerful truth when he shared this. 

God is big enough. 

I can rest.