Darkness into Light

I will turn 

the darkness 

into light 

before them. 

I will make the 

rough 

places 

smooth.

Isaiah 42:16 I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.

New International Version (©1984)

Recalculating

Am I Lost? 

No, life is just recalculating...

Hopeful me smiles,

Could it be all

downhill 

from here?

More than likely,

there will be 

more uphill 

climbs.

But, I'm learning...

I'm not the one

who's navigating

any more...

A divine guide is

personally

warmly

carefully

safely

intimately

directing

my

every

step.

My times are 

in 

HIS

hands. 

Psalm 31:15

 

Divine Balance

Our lives are NOT to be

centered around the jobs we have...

...the careers we often allow to have first priority

in our days.

Yet, I am a single woman

who is the only one

to bring home the bacon

or in my case the chicken

and spinach salad sprinkled

with feta cheese...

Our lives are to be centered around our CALLINGS

the gifts,

the passions,

God draws us to

like gravity...

like a moth

to a flame...

like a man

drawn to 

a woman,

Adam drawn 

to Eve...

God within

us stirred,

aching,

longing

for more

than this world

this earth

can offer.

We are made for a world 

beyond this world...

A heavenly place 

supernatural...

yet more real

than we can imagine.

Today, somehow, my world

regained balance. 

Surely it is grace, Godlike,

righting my world.

For a short while it

seemed I'd fallen into a world within

a snow globe, vigorously 

shaken by a young one,

innocently turned upside down...

Slowly

Jesus brought divine

balance...

He does not desire

us to walk

tightrope,

tense, 

but desires

us to rest, 

trusting

relaxing

our hold

on this world

and tightening

our hold

on His hands.

Fiery Trials

I desperately

need

to be 

sleeping

yet I'm tossing

turning,

wrestling 

with this

struggle,

yet tryin' to 

lay 

it

down

at the

feet

of

Jesus

where

He can impact

needed

changes

in attitude

and in heart.

This challenge,

this fiery

trial

is way

beyond me,

a broken

earthen

vessel

of 

clay. 

Yet,

somehow

amazingly,

there is a treasure

in this jar

of clay

that shows 

this all surpassing

power

is from God,

and

not

from

me.

Marie

God in the fog

I'm being challenged on so many levels these days. I'm being stretched. It's not pleasant. 

I feel as though I'm in a fog. 

In reality, there have been several foggy days recently... ironic isn't it? This morning I drove to work in the fog. It slowed all of us. 

Slowed us down. This could be good, this slowing down, though we may see it as an inconvenience.

I believe My Father God is in this fog. He's in the challenges. He's in this stretching. Stretching beyond my comfort zone. He. Is. With. Me.  I just want to be with Him. 

To allow Him to work in and through me, through the challenges...

through the fog. 

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
Joseph Conrad

Truth is the torch that gleams through the fog without dispelling it.
Claude Adrien Helvetius

The Light is Sweet

Yes, the light is sweet.
 
Light warmed my day,
 
sunshine causing dark shadows

to run and hide. 

This January day, gloriously

unfurled her bright warm rays.

I, with upturned spirit

soaking up her light
 
smiling, delighting

in pleasant beaming
 
all the while

eyes fully awakening

to the meaning

and primal aching need

for true light.

In His light

we see light.

 

 

 

Psalm 74:16 The day is Yours, the night also is Yours; You have established the [starry] light and the sun.

 

Psalm 104:2 [You are the One] Who covers Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain or a tent,

 

Isaiah 60:20 Your sun shall no more go down, nor shall your moon withdraw itself, for the Lord shall be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be ended.

 

John 1:4 In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men.

John 1

 ¹IN THE beginning [before all time] was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God Himself.

    ²He was present originally with God.

    ³All things were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was not even one thing made that has come into being.

    ⁴In Him was Life, and the Life was the Light of men.

    ⁵And the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it [put it out or absorbed it or appropriated it, and is unreceptive to it].

 

John 8:12 Once more Jesus addressed the crowd. He said, I am the Light of the world. He who follows Me will not be walking in the dark, but will have the Light which is Life.