The Last Couple Years

The last couple years my life as a Christ follower have taken a Big turn.  I know this might sound dramatic, but it’s not.  It has been a little by little change.  It started after I was awakened to some  new paradigms concerning God’s Love and Grace.  These  were things that I had learned early on as a new Christian, back in May of 1974.  It’s hard for me to fathom, that I had to come all the way back to the beginning  to find what I was looking for. READ MORE

Lost & Found

I was lost, now I’m found.  Everything seemed pointless and I was wandering aimlessly.  Why go to work?  Why go back to school?  Why get out of bed in the morning?  What’s the point?  Then I met Jesus.  It wasn’t the first time, but it sure felt like it; rekindling those embers in my soul till they billowed into a raging fire.  Maybe it was the first time?  Maybe I’d only known about Him previously?  I don’t know.  It doesn’t matter.  It changed me; saved me; infused my life with color.  Some things still seemed pointless, but not me.  I didn’t feel pointless anymore.  He didn’t take away all my frustrations and life hasn’t been easy.  But I’m not pointless anymore.  And He walks with me through the pointless things, the difficult things, and the empty things; and they seem somehow less empty.  That is Jesus in my life.  It makes all the difference in the world to me.

The Journey

The Wise Men must have known it all along, but in our day men come to find out the truth of it in bits and pieces. The secret is simple; if you want to find the Saviour, you must set out in search of Him. Unlike the world where mankind used to live, it isn’t easy to find Him down here. This is unfriendly territory, there is no guiding star. The fact is if left to his own devices, man will rise no higher than the environment in which he lives. We live in an earthly world where, for the time being, the adversary rules. Without a constant premeditated effort toward righteousness, we ourselves fall back to earthly living. To rise above such a Fall, man must go in search of One who has the power to redeem. Much like the wise men, our search will require the crossing of deserts, hunger, thirst, fatigue and a lifetime of obedience and sacrifice. During the search we will be told there is no King, or another is the rightful King. In the end, if the pattern of our lives is consistent with our search, we will find Him; we will meet Him face to face. The key to our quest or search lies in the journey. It will not matter that we find Him if we have not, during the process, strived to become like Him.

Alf R

Last Night I was Sleeping

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error!—
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart.
I said: Along which secret aqueduct,
Oh water, are you coming to me,
water of a new life
that I have never drunk? READ MORE

Completion

There was nothing but God in the beginning, and it was perfect just like that. Yet, he made a hole in himself, removed his own rib, and made us. With that choice, he created – for the very first time – longing. For suddenly, he wanted. His heart would never be whole again until joined to us. Why would he choose to desire? Why would be abstain from wholeness, fasting from fulfillment, until reunited with his helpmate? So that we could know the pleasure he gave up – the pleasure of completion.

by Cherie D