recrudesce, quiescent

re·cru·desce - (ree-kroo-des):  to break out afresh anything that has been quiescent.

 

qui·es·cent  [kwee-es-uhnt, kwahy-]:  being at rest; quiet; still; inactive or motionless: a quiescent mind.

to my daughter

Two weeks ago today, we were anticipating a day together then an evening of praise and worship.  How awesome is that?

 

We were doing exactly what God wants us to do.  In that moment when you looked at me with tears streaming down your face, didn't you 'know that you know that you know' that God has His hand on your life and you need not be afraid?  He allows us to carry that with us in our hearts.  He wants us to live a life of praise and worship in spirit and in truth - to live that life song.  The peace and security you felt at the concert is yours to keep with you and to live by.  It is not confined in any way to an auditorium or a church.  It lives within your heart if you choose it, moment by moment and day by day.

 

"Be still and know that I am God."  Psalm 46:10

 

Close your eyes then take a deep breath.  Ask God to renew that moment when you felt like you were right there with Him.  He never left His place.  He's steadfastly waiting for you to choose His way and His path over the patterns of this world. 

 

In your heart and in your thoughts, He wants you to remain in that moment and trust in Him to handle absolutely everything else.  Circumstances are what they will be, and they will change in small ways and in big ways.  Circumstances are just one of the many vessels to contain and overflow with the attitudes of our heart.  What is pouring out of the circumstances you face in any given day?  Are you choosing His way or following the pattern of this world?  On which do you focus?

Psalm 37:4

Psalm 37:4
Delight yourself in the LORD
and He will give you the desires of your heart.

There is no need to search for the good things that life has in store for you. Simply wait and allow God to present them to you within His timing and in His way.

Imagine...

In the next moment, you hear a loud trumpet sound from the heavens, a sound unlike anything your ears have ever heard.  Next the sky splits open, the edges of the heavens rolling back on themselves like a scroll.  Then you see Him descending to earth from among the clouds.  In that moment, will you behold a friend and a brother with confidence and without fear?  Or will He plainly pass you by with the comment:  "I never knew you."

Matthew 7:23
Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'

the fig tree...

Never before in the history of mankind has the fig tree been more heavily laden with fruit.

Matthew 24:32-34

   ³² “Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. ³³ Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it^[a] is near, right at the door. ³⁴ I tell you the truth, this generation^[b] will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.

Word of God speak...

Matthew 10:19-20
At that time you will be given what to say, for it will not be you speaking, but the Spirit of your Father speaking through you.

a joyful heart...

On July 7, 2011 I wrote:  "Feeling withdrawn and asocial again.  Over-exposed.  I long for laughter and a joyful heart."

It's Monday, August 15 now.  Over the weekend, I laughed harder than I have laughed in a very long time.  I laughed so hard I couldn't catch my breath!  Together my daughter and I wept tears of joy.

Proverbs 15:15
All the days of the oppressed are wretched, but the cheerful heart has a continual feast.
Proverbs 17:22
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

bringing in the sheaves

We reap what we sow.  What a joy to bring in the sheaves!

sheaf -  plural sheaves

noun

1.  one of the bundles in which cereal plants, as wheat, rye, etc., are bound after reaping.

2.  any bundle, cluster, or collection: a sheaf of papers.

verb (used with object)

3.  to bind (something) into a sheaf or sheaves.

Psalm 126:6
⁶ He who goes out weeping,
   carrying seed to sow,
will return with songs of joy,
   carrying sheaves with him.

Psalm 30:5

⁵ ... weeping may remain for a night, but rejoicing comes in the morning.

a spacious place

God is asking me to open my heart and share my thoughts.  What is in my heart?  What do my thoughts think?  Good grief.  I've spent the majority of my life learning to keep my mouth shut and my opinions to myself.  Thick are the walls of my defenses. 

"2 Samuel 22:20   He brought me out into a spacious place; He rescued me because He delighted in me.

God took me away from all of that so that He could give me this. 

How cool is that??

I have a grandson!  His name is Aldyansyah Ridwan.  We have decided to call him Al.  Al will be 9 in November, and his home is in Indonesia.

During an intermission Friday night, Mark Hall spoke about World Vision.  Mark is the Youth Pastor at Eagles Landing First Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.  He is also the lead singer and song writer for the band (Casting Crowns).  Mark shook my hand and asked my name.  We are now BFF's forever, of course!  CR, I finally found your brother, and he's my brother too.  Awesome walk of faith this guy has.  My daughter and I had decided we would sponsor a child together through World Vision, so I had gone up to get a kid.  These people are giving away kids!!  Love it.  Got me one.  Now my daughter says I can quit pestering her about grandbabies.

While I was walking back to my seat, I looked down at the face of this child God gave me to love.  Next to his picture his birthdate was written:  November 25, 2002.  We share the same date of birth.  How cool is that?

I came home early Saturday morning with a new-found brother and a grandson.  Seriously, how cool is that???

God is so good.  He's so good to me.

to Casting Crowns:

John 4:22-24
Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”

Thank you for sharing an incredible evening of worship - in spirit and in truth.
God speed to each of you. You are a gift from God to so many :)

omni: meaning all

om·nis·cient

1.  having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.

 

om·nip·o·tent

1.  almighty or infinite in power, as God.

2.  having very great or unlimited authority or power.

heavenly lights or shifting shadows?

God does not change.  He is sovereign and constant, yesterday, today, eternally.  This is an important thing to write upon the tablet of your heart.  Beware the shifting shadows.

"Test the spirits," the bible says.  "Hold fast to what is fine." 

Open our eyes, Lord.  Make us aware of what is constant and what is a shifting shadow.  Your discernment we seek.

Thursday morning...

Not going in to the office until 10 today.  The work load has eased up a bit which is good for the stress level but not for our P&L.  Gives me time to get down to the courthouse and dig through the old books in the dungeon too.  When I get to work, my boss is leaving and taking the rest of the week off.  This is the most quiet it's been in a long time.  Too hot for real estate.

My job is a blessing to me, truly a gift from God.  I told papergirl years ago that my goal was a stress free life.  God has provided all that is needed for the attainment of that goal.  My social contact is minimal.  I have a dear friend/teammate/co-worker/co-conspirator/sister/daughter/boss that I love to spend my days with.  And she cooks for me too!  And I have a magic jug that refills itself with green tea whenever she is in the office.  How great is that? 

Lovin' God's Gifts!!!!

Luke 11:13
If you then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”

James 1:17
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.
God speed.

a heavy heart....

What spirit is this that presses upon my heart the burdens of this world? 

 

Matthew 11:28-30

   ²⁸ “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. ³⁰ For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

 

op·press

1.  to burden with cruel or unjust impositions or restraints; subject to a burdensome or harsh exercise of authority or power: a people oppressed by totalitarianism.

2.   to lie heavily upon (the mind, a person, etc.): Care and sorrow oppressed them.

3.   to weigh down, as sleep or weariness does.