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The Moon, 31OCT

If you have read my writing, you will know that the moon is following me. (Or am I following the moon?) And why did God place the one moon (with such a pondering face shape on it) JUST SO for me to fascinate about this year? NO, the moon IS the same beauty it has always been, I am the one who is DIFFERENT…

I woke up thankfully after a full eight hours needed rest, I rarely wake up to write at 230 am anymore, I know now that God was then telling me to wake up to talk to him and write it out. And now I talk to him comfortably, never ceasing, all day long, even when I say “OH GOD this is wrong for me to say or do”…. So I write this devotion now “just to write”, this Saturday morning, rested before an exciting day ahead…. no angst or bounding geyser ready to blow, I write in the peace and warmth of appreciating what I appreciate now.

So this moon…. it’s right perfectly there smack dab in my sight, photo attached. Lying here at 5am, I just woke up, tipped my head up and there’s that blinding bright moon looking at me… just like I saw outside last night coming home… just like always, tracking me. The moon gets my attention like no other, the Pleiades I have to search for, but not this moon!!! I notice it before I look for it…. I hear every song lyric about the moon sing special to my ears. So many many songs, no wonder that after I awoke with the help of music that I STILL have such an awesome soundtrack running thru my head… And alas, when the moon is gone for a few days I miss it, I truly do. I feel BLESSED to track it by sight and when it’s gone there is a void.

And that’s what I think I am supposed to write about this morning, the moon I notice fresh and new now, just like I newly notice Jesus now…

Jesus has ALWAYS been there for me, I just didn’t see HIM, i wasn’t looking either and I certainly didn’t track him… but HE WAS THERE… I am awake now and my appreciation is amplified SO MUCH. Jesus waited ever so patiently for me to notice HIS saving arms. God worked and worked HIS system shifting and blowing all the pieces together again and again – but I had to realize when it was my time to grab on to Jesus’s hand. Maybe I wasn’t sinking in the water because I was already embedded in the water – swimming sometimes, but often floating the dead man’s float, until I realized the presence of Jesus – He was patiently waiting for God to drift me His way. Jesus was in the ready postion, waiting to wake me.

So – now it is important for ALL of us to remember to walk by faith.  ALL who are now up and out of the water are now needing to stay ready…  We walk by FAITH and NOT by sight… We walk with Jesus. We need to close our eyes to suggestive distractions, and faithfully let Jesus lead.

Unlike the moon which clouds out of sight, Jesus can be IN sight and IN mind always, we have to stay awake, we only have to feel for Him in the dark.

So yeah, I see that moon this morning… and forever I will know that God sees me in times of comfort and conflict. I know God sends that moon for warm fuzzys and for stern warnings… Don’t stop noticing that moon! Don’t stop noticing God’s gifts! DON’T try to float on gifted grace that is not generated by your own self… DON’T try to take your own wings and fly so high (like in the”Mad Man Moon” Genesis song) and get so far away from Jesus’s grip…. DON’T go thru life on your own power. Hold Jesus’s hand, ALWAYS.

You are ALIVE because of God’s grace.

You are AWAKE because of Jesus’s death and return trip to and from earth to take you along WITH HIM.

You are SAVED to realize that you are saved THRU Jesus.

KEEP NOTICING…

KEEP THANKING GOD…

KEEP FEELING THE HOLY SPIRIT GUIDANCE…

KEEP NOTICING YOU ARE ALIVE IN JESUS…

KEEP JESUS ALIVE IN YOU…