Sunday, February 24, 2013

are we...



are we willing to step into the mystery

to not have our security rest in answers

or understanding

to consider there is more to God than we know

to live with a God without boundaries

are we willing…

Sunday, January 27, 2013

relax...


have you noticed that some folks have a difficult time just relaxing into Him? they say something like...

oh i know He loves me...

i know all about grace...

i know we don't have to do anything to earn His blessing...

and then go about holding themselves as if they are walking on thin ice with Him

so sad the energy they spend on tying themselves into knots


when all He is after is

that we relax

and learn to live

in the unforced rhythms

of

Grace

Himself

 


the law...


think of all the opportunities Jesus had to shun folks…

the 10 lepers – who were obviously leprous because of sin…

the woman at the well who had been married many times and was now living with her boyfriend…

the tax collector who took some for himself…

the woman taken in adultery [always wondered where was the man]…

the unclean woman with the issue of blood…

all the rowdies who were wine-bibbers…

to name a few…

all folks who were breaking ‘the law’…

He touched them…

loved on them…

wept and laughed and ate with them…

He healed them and encouraged them…

the only ones He castigated – and yet did not truly shun?...

the law keepers…
 

 

Saturday, January 26, 2013

watching...



have you ever watched a hunting dog in the field with his master?

Every sense alert…

eyes keen to any movement…

ears up and tuning in to sound as yet unheard by the hunter…

nose flared testing the air…

body ready to run…

 

waiting for the discovery…

the movement…

the sound…

the smell…

 

watchful…

ready…

 

kelly

 

be watchful
the Grace of God appears suddenly
it comes without warning
to an open heart
~rumi

Monday, January 21, 2013

in the night...



singing in the night…
because the dark can’t hold us…


singing…


not out of fear…


singing…


out of liberty…

of the spirit…

of the soul…

in the midst of the night…

in the midst of the pain…

in the midst of the tree boughs which do not support us…


singing…


because of grace…

free…

not bound…


singing…

in the night…



kelly

 

"Be like a bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.    ~ Victor Hugo ~

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

it is...



this falls under the heading of 'never hurts to reiterate what we know'...


it is a kindness to give space for a hurting one to feel and express that hurt...


it is a kindness to give a hug...


it is a kindness to share some of the load...


it is a kindness to speak a gentle word of encouragement...


it is a kindness to not say, 'get your act together' to one who has stumbled...


it is a kindness


to be kind...


 

yes...



 
He said 'Yes' to Father...


... and we were in Him


... reckon it so





hope...


you may feel like a cut down tree…


you may feel as though your roots have grown old in the ground

… even that your stump has died


yet…


yet…



at the slightest whiff of water


… new buds of life will appear

… new shoots will be put forth