(A note on where we are before we know HIM)
I think You stand and stare….like I stood in Waterloo, my old home town, like a ghost of Christmas past…no one knew me,
no one seemed to be able to see me there in her streets, ME, the daughter of that bustling
town. They walked by, drove by, carried on conversation beside me, but they could not see me there and I did not know them. If they could have seen me they would have exclaimed at my arrival! They would have grabbed me up and hugged me and we would have reminisced of all of the times I had there, combing the streets on foot and wheels. We would talk of how I was one of them, and how we share history together.
You stand amidst Your people, Your
things. Your imagination is all sprawled out around us and we, like dumb beasts,
like a haggard old woman in a movie, we just pilfer through, picking up random things, stepping on Your tiny enchanted worlds under our feet, we trample over scores of wisdom and
story, we touch worlds of wonder with our hands, smell aromas from another land and never move through to the wonder--to YOU.
You stand like the Ghost of Christmas past, and we don't see You. We are flat-lining in Your presence, and in a world utterly bursting with Your life.
We pinch
our own feeding tubes, stay far from "living waters", close the breeze out of our own windows, as we choose
our own erotic views that stimulate for a breath and execute our capture in
the next.
Wake up, flatl-iners! Let's wake up from our eternal sleep. Unpinch our life line, stop erasing the precious letters of our names from the book of life! Hear the trumpet
calling, carried along summer breezes, and on our ocean beaches, funneled
through our ever waking hours, a kingdom calls to us. A residence reaches for us. Our Maker stands on our streets and moons over the ever moving, ever
evading, loves of His life, us.
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Titus 3:3 Be truly humble toward everyone 3 because there was a time when we, too, were foolish, rebellious, and deceived—we were slaves to sensual cravings and pleasures; and we spent our lives being spiteful, envious, hated by many, and hating one another.
4 But then something happened: God our Savior and His overpowering love and kindness for humankind entered our world; 5 He came to save us. It’s not that we earned it by doing good works or righteous deeds; He came because He is merciful. He brought us out of our old ways of living to a new beginning through the washing of regeneration; and He made us completely new through the Holy Spirit, 6 who was poured out in abundance through Jesus the Anointed, our Savior. 7 All of this happened so that through His grace we would be accepted into God’s covenant family and appointed to be His heirs, full of the hope that comes from knowing you have eternal life. 8 This is a faithful statement of what we believe.
