Safety in the flock

Spring migrations of snow geese create white outs as they rise in the Gulf of Mexico when attacked by birds of prey. And amidst the mass of whirling wings, scientists report that families stick close together.

So the Body of Christ rises together as one, uniting against attack, while maintaining the families into which the Lord has placed each member.  Safety is found in the unity of the flock.

"Who are my mother and my brothers and sisters?" Jesus asked His followers when his mother, Mary, and his brothers came, making a demand that He had answered long ago.  At 13, the age Jewish boys become a man, Jesus had challenged his parents' demand on His time, saying He had to be found doing His Father's work.

So too, if we are born again by the Spirit of God, we must be about "Our Father's Business".

If are we led by the Spirit of God, we SHALL be about our Father's Business.

We shall be praying to seek His will for us, and then doing it!

We shall be in the spiritual family of God, uniting in prayer, crying out to the Lord for His kingdom to Come in the nations of the world, and in the nation in which He chose for us to be born.  We shall cry out for our flock, and for our family.  We shall rise to Him as one, whiting out  the darkness that surrounds us, finding safety from birds of prey in our unity.

3 Continents in 3 Years

Three continents in 3 years on missionary journeys.  Not to the "fun" places where tourists go but to the dark places hiding in plain sight.  You have shown me the faces of suffering around the world and I am shattered. As I finish my 60th decade of life, I finally realize my destiny in You is to be a part of your "House of Prayer for the Nations" and I am not alone by any stretch of the imagination.  You shared YOUR HEART with me and You made it mine.  This is your doing, Lord, and it is incredibly wonderful!

You are my beloved and I have left the safety of the familiar to follow you into the night, only to find it blazing with your light.

Psalm 108:3-6

I will praise You, O Lord, among the peoples,
And I WILL SING PRAISES TO YOU AMONG THE NATIONS,
For your mercy is great above the heavens,
And Your truth reaches to the clouds.
Be exalted , O God, above the heavens,
And Your glory above all the earth,
That Your beloved may be delivered.
Save me with Your right hand and hear me.

Fearfully and wonderfully made

The breathtaking beauty of a late fall ... full of brilliant colors set amidst, juxtaposed, with the tall stately evergreens, proclaiming to all who have eyes to see the absolute glory of transitions in the Lord.  Glorious in death, the leaves flame and proclain, "Fear Not" - you are to complete your life on this earth in a blaze of glory, light shining through you and illuminating your beauty. 

Our eyes have the ability to distinguish among more than 300,000 shades of color.  We are fearfully and wonderfully made, in the image of God