Journey Out of Hiding

I went to set my coat down and I noticed this picture in tihs unfamiiar place, its of a little girl dresssed in adult cloths from another era, I thought, she's very cute.  Not from myself, I understood, "You (the Abba Jesus talked about), You see me like that". It was a cool thought. My internal response? 'Yeah, yeah, God loves me, big deal, I 've got other things on my mind", hurts maybe?  When I got to pick up my coat I knock the picture over and as I notice it face down a tronger impression hits me... "He wants me to look at this picture, to really look.  So I getntly set it back in its place gazing at it. It is a little girl dressed in the old cloths of a lost and beautiful age where they dressed up more than we do today, but she is gazing at a rose; a long stem lying in her lap, and I remember, I quietly exclaim, "He remembers me, He remembers me." I walk away slower now, it's a moment between Abba and I, in the space of this mad and m...

I heard someone say the reason we should be going to be around people, is just simply looking forward to getting to be around them, without any expectations. Hopefully there will be some laughter, sometimes there will be some tears. The only way I could not look for there to be a need meet from someone else is when I began to learn that God had already come to meet all of my needs. Here's just a couple of the miriad of verses even way back in the Old Testament that speak of God's kind intentions toward us:  "For I am the Lord your God, who upholds your right hand, which says to you, "Do not fear, I will help you.". Isaiah 41:13  Then He was talking about Jesus in 42:1 when He said this "Behold, My servant, whom I uphold; My chosen one in whom My soul delights."  When Jesus was here, He lived a perfect life, a sinless life. Then He died on cross, on purpose, and in our place.  He exchanged His life for ours.  That perfect life He lived, He exchanges it...

Some months after this leaving so many things in His lap time, some circumstances changed in my life and I hit a wall. I've heard people say that in the counseling office, but I didn't quite know what they meant, now I do.  It exposed some grieving that I had never done. It seems so much easier and better to leave grief behind than to feel it.  But God knows better. I was given the opportunity to then deal with the pain that had been exposed, I could have said no, I even tried sometimes. It's very probable that this was at the root of those other beliefs that needed changing. I wish I could explain everything that this looks like, but I could never write it all down. And also, because each one of us will process things differently. Each of our journeys are our own, and He is the path to peace and an abundant life. John 10:10 says, The thief comes to steal kill and destroy, but He came (Jesus), that we might have life and that more abundantly."  He is with you right w...