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There is Good in Good Friday, 31MAR

“We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us has turned to our own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all. (Isaiah 53:6)”

I was spinning my wheels… Friday – Good Friday – first I was in hyperactive overdrive and actually making good traction – I had work work to do – my responsibility to organize my department’s donations for a mega fundraiser – I had a plan,  just barely the time, and with everyone’s help I  powered thru it – whew… FABULOUS… done.

I was still spinning my wheels while shifting the gears of my head, what should i do next? Stay at work at the fundraiser, enjoyable but not sure I could timewise justify my fun when I could go to a local church for Good Friday (since I was an hour from home church), OR take half day vacation and attempt to do a massive errand that could have waited but I was being inpatient but also knew I had this window of time… so i wrapped up my work, knowing I could and would pick up at home later on the laptop and high tailed it out of there… I knew I was rushing, God has convicted me of rushing big time so many times,  but still I dashed…

Shifting gears while you’re still in motion strips those very gears that help give you drive… but off I went…

I justified in my brain all I was doing… but that brain also was bugging me “It’s Good Friday what if they are closed?”… I kept going, but it started bugging me louder in my brain… In half an hour I decided to actually call and guess what? CLOSED. Boom. Plan gone… gear stripped,  wheels spinning and no progress… I had driven halfway to nowhere.

Why Lord? “Lord, You always have a plan for me, where am I supposed to be? Where can I find the good here, I messed up but can you direct me, can you salvage these wasted moments, can you make me understand?”

Sometimes it’s sitting in the car, in the moment that you know you just fell, that God could say something, but He lets you hear the QUIET until you stop spinning your own wheels… His mercy comes when we ask Him for mercy. We ask…

Fittingly, I had just read about Jesus giving mercy. A pagan woman with a demon-possessed daughter engaged Jesus in back and forth discussion. Jesus challenged her with a question and she answered truthfully, wittingly, and with the tone of asking for mercy (Mark 7 scripture lesson of feeding crumbs to the puppies)… Jesus had a forgiving heart healed the girl and told her: “For such a reply, you may go…

ME – I said Lord, I was thinking I was on the right track, please have mercy… I sat at that intersection of the road and my brain quieted down… and I asked God for mercy, for direction, for a glimpse of His plan…

Ok, click click click, let me let God turn my wheels now – and re-engage my active brain – the clock said there’s time on the click to go find a “random” church for Good Friday… at least Lord, I could be a warm body to boost the attendance… YES, put me to Your service somewhere… Google maps… make a plan…

God’s timing, I had to find a rest stop, found it, found there was a screaming child in the shopping cart, the mom doing what she could. I wanted to help, so I found something in my car to give him,  I don’t know if I helped, she showed him – “look at the basketball pictures” – I just felt better that I tried… “the child is screaming Lord, I have to try, is this your plan for me today?”… some time ticked away, I saw him a little calmer – I left…

Mission: find a local cute church not a mega church – find a little church with a BIG spirit… not much to ask huh? So what highway was I on? OH YEAH!!!! Click click click,wow I was ONLY 7 minutes away from one of my former Pastors’ church,  7 minutes huh? Off I went… whew, pulled into a decently full parking lot after not even knowing if they were having a service!  I knew at that moment God had shown me mercy… I hit the door 7 minutes late… sat down to absorb the “7 last words of Christ”… I missed the first word, but swooped in the back sat anonymously and the chimes started right behind my ears and I wept, God is that good!! God continues to show me mercy when “I wing it” – when I go astray – when I ask for mercy. Actually before we were born He set up a plan for each of us to be received into Heaven – the mercy of LIFE in His Love… THERE IS GOOD IN GOOD FRIDAY…

Goosebumps don’t describe realization of mercy – tears flow… tears for the littlest of mercies, big tears and shouts of JOY for the biggest mercy – it’s God’s Good Friday – His plan – His Son to gather back all His Children… I sat and wept that even if I wasn’t supposed to be here, His mercy from our engaged conversation landed me here – safe – from humbled moments to my JOY amplified. I stopped spinning my  wheels, I was there NOT JUST for my joy, NOT JUST for their joy too, but because God tweaks the system and saves the day… we can collectively give Him all the praise… THERE IS GOOD IN GOOD FRIDAY…

Stop spinning the wheels when we realize this is just a normal day for God… When we ask, He knows the plan, He directs the plan… THERE IS GOOD IN GOOD FRIDAY…

Goosebumps for a parishioner when I told her how I “randomly” got there… Encouragement for the sermonists as I was able to tell two of them that their delivery touched my heart. I even got to go to lunch with my blessing of a friend! I got home in time for a big work call – and I got to see my kids for dinner – mercy on a very good Friday…

Unlike the woman with a demon possessed daughter, I was NOT in a grave situation – if anything God told me (again) to slowdown – and He had an opportunity to remind me (again) that when I feel like I’m overstretching and go wrong (again) that it is OK to ask for Mercy, Jesus says: “For such a reply, you may go…”

God floats us… if we stop focusing on the Spirit, we will surely crash… If we hold onto His wing, we will soar…

Fittingly the first Word scripture that I missed 7 minutes late was: “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they’re doing.” Luke 23:34

Forgive us Father (again) and show us Mercy – Thank You for Jesus!

Jesus saves us – Jesus says “It is finished” – the plan to save us was already placed in our hearts…

Even when we don’t know what we are doing, Jesus intercedes with Our Father… “forgive them”…

THERE IS GOOD IN GOOD FRIDAY…

AMEN

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24 Jesus left that place and went to the vicinity of Tyre. He entered a house and did not want anyone to know it; yet he could not keep his presence secret. 25 In fact, as soon as she heard about him, a woman whose little daughter was possessed by an impure spirit came and fell at his feet. 26 The woman was a Greek, born in Syrian Phoenicia. She begged Jesus to drive the demon out of her daughter.

27 “First let the children eat all they want,” he told her, “for it is not right to take the children’s bread and toss it to the dogs.”

28 “Lord,” she replied, “even the dogs under the table eat the children’s crumbs.”

29 Then he told her, “For such a reply, you may go; the demon has left your daughter.”

30 She went home and found her child lying on the bed, and the demon gone.

(Mark 7, this scripture detailed in Michael Card’s book helped me a few days prior see Jesus acting with Mercy because the woman engaged in back and forth conversation with a heart of asking forgiveness)

 

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Closure to Open, 29MAR

a Holy Thursday Reflection

A counselor once told me: “You need closure, so that you can open up fully…”

I thought that was an interesting juxtaposition of terms – of closing to be open…

I’ve been praying on that irony… and I understand. To close wounds allows us to redirect our energy, our purpose, our hope. God heals and we help by allowing Him to do His work.

The Living Water of Jesus was purposefully directed to us, His flow allows us to LIVE.

A rose waiting to bloom is ready to open, but not until directed cues cause the water to enter the petals, the cells to expand, and a bloom form for the eye to behold…. see, feel, smell the sweet aroma of life.

Can you see your heart like a rose ready to bloom? God holds your heart petals together. Can you see how the closures of leaks would not remove the water that may have leaked thru the tears but redirects the water into hydrating flow that will grow you? He will bloom you. He makes all things beautiful…

“You need closure, to open fully…”

Jesus thru His death and resurrection brings back the sweet aroma of life, today, everyday, evermore. Back to the Garden… Easter is the opening, the redirection of His Spirit for our future to be realized in the present – God wants to be known. He blooms new life into us because of closure of Jesus’s short earthly form. The flow of Living Water now available for all.

“You need closure, to open fully…”

Closure is a process none of us takes lightly, nor can we try to force it… Any time we need closure, remember that it’s because Loving God wants redirecting of His Life in and thru you… to open you… to bloom… to bear fruit…. to LIVE… to LIVE now… to LIVE again…

Amen

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Bobble, 25MAR

You know sometimes (well ALL the time, and especially during Holy Week) we need to “Be Still” and remember the stabilization that Christ gives us. His comfort. His peace.

Often I bet that you, like me, would like to stop the head spinning times and find focus…  Even when we keep busy we sometimes can be so Martha-like that we end up spinning our wheels…

Jesus says:  “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.  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.  For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30

We sometimes work SO hard at keeping ourselves afloat that we become like those red and white fishing bobbles, jumping up and down, sinking then bobbing up, oh the spinning…

How can we stabilize our emotional rollercoasters? Where do we attach our anchors? Where do we cast our lines?

We are to remember, especially at Easter, how much God has loved and still LOVES us… Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life!

God has sent us a life-saver… if we are a bobble that may float in the water, it’s because of the lift of an air-filled pocket inside… if we are a child of God, it’s because of the LIFT of a Holy Spirit-filled pocket in our soul…

How can we keep our wild ups and our downs on an even plane? It’s about finding our focus to keep from sinking. Sometimes there are snags in the water that will catch our bobbles – stuck – yet what do you think would be the best snag? What if you could sink your hook into wood the shape of a cross? Ah wood floats, Christ floats … If we are accepting that we don’t want to tred water alone, that we do need stabilization for this life and forever, then we ought to long to be caught forever on this floating cross – linked with our fellow swimming souls we can travel together… Let us carry our own crosses, and while we carry each other’s burdens, let us not caught up in the current of woe…

Stabilization – we may not completely stabilize in this world, but in our new life in the risen Christ we will find eternal rest… While in this life can share our joys, lift each other’s spirits, and “do good to all”…

My bobble, I will look for the Spirit-lift, I will try to snag myself into the loving arms of Christ – my Fisherman, my Savior,  my Lord.

I pray you all find comfort in His catch.

WE ARE SAVED!

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For at least 2 friends this week who both wondered why they wondered about God SO MUCH – I said because Jesus is just adjusting your antenna…

Ping, 22Mar

Yup – we are loved by God, so much that He keeps us thinking about Him… it might make us think (well I certainly did) that we are crazy contemplating Him so much, but He knows it is for our own good… it keeps us bearing His fruit and that means because of Him we are spreading the meanings of His Word and encouraging others…

“Blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.” Jeremiah 17:7-8  (and Psalm 1)…

God is “pinging” us… Yes, like a cell phone, if we were lost in the woods, the ping might help find us. The ping goes BOTH ways – towers and phones – both actively involved in communication…. Isn’t that what happens with God and us too? It’s not God pinging an inanimate object, like a rock, it’s God pinging the SPIRIT within us! We are filled with His SPIRIT, we can answer back, He can stir our souls because we ARE made of His stardust…. Even those souls who don’t know Him personally are His children… He pings them all.

How will we hear? What will we hear? How can we discern thru all the noise?

Perhaps the SPIRIT within each of us is constantly adjusting our antenna?…. Click-click, click-click, is how my Grandmother’s T.V. box for the big roof antenna would sound…

Yes, we can ask Jesus to hold His hands behind our ears like a receiving dish for God’s ping! We can ask Jesus to hold His hands behind our hearts as well, to heal our brokenness… Not simply like the fairytale boy with his finger in the dam to stop it from breaking, no.  Jesus can hold His hands behind our hearts to allow HIS living water to flow thru our hearts and back out thru those same cracks to nourish others… Jesus allows us to show His healing thru our brokenness… Living Water moves…

That’s me – that’s us – broken but on the mend – less us, more Him – lost but found – but NEVER really lost to God, He has been pinging us all along…

The amplification of His signal drowns out the noise, we become a tree next to the noisy rippling life-giving stream, bearing more fruit, connected, rooted in the Living Water… Have you heard the pings of those fellow people calling to God? Messages in a bottle? I bet you have…

I had a crazy dream (well sure many seem crazy) and I was second guessing myself, being filled with guilty feelings, and in the dream a store promotion monopoly game piece floated down from the sky – yet like a fortune cookie it had a saying: “when are you going to listen to the Living Water?” Why in my dream did this message appear? God was and is pinging me – sure it freaks me out, but He’s just calling to me to LISTEN… Ring, ring, pick up the phone – allow myself – all of us – to be forgiven by Jesus’s actions, healed by His message, and moved by His SPIRIT to bear His fruit… Jesus adjusts our antennas “still” – to get REALLY good signal for His teachings…

We are called to hear Jesus’s Words this Easter – “It is finished”…. He died for our sins – done – finished – God’s goal achieved – so what are we waiting for? We know “the rest of the story” – God wins… Open the door. Pick up the phone.

Number one message – God loves you – He wants you to accept your brokenness to accept His healing – He loves you no matter what… And guess what? it’s not just love once a day at the “same time, same God station” – it’s eternal – forever… And why? So that we LOVE HIM and LOVE all His Children… we can show our actions are from His phone conversation in our ear because we picked up HIS call…

Jesus asks: “Let those who have ears, hear”…

Ping…

Amen

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Traffic Cop, 16MAR

“The communion of saints in heaven and earth”…. my pastor was teaching confirmation class as I sang thru the hallway on the way to the copier machine, the praise band was waiting for me and I had very limited limited time to chat, I wished I could have been in ten places at once… luckily the spirit quickly packed a seed into my ears so that it could sprout later… “the communion of saints in heaven and earth”… I can see her hands stretching to signify those places as she was urging the answers to flow out of our quiet, very quiet, confirmation kids…

I could and did fill in the blank space of sound… Jesus connects heaven and earth… and I scurried off back to band… that seed placed in my ear now sprouts, after a good night sleep, and I can now let the spirit flow back out thru writing… we can all allow the spirit to weave thru the convolutions of our brain traffic. We can bear His fruit by allowing His spirit sprouting.

Jesus brings the saints of heaven and earth together – thru communion – commonality – conduit ….Traffic Cop…

Yes, Traffic Cop – Jesus is the traffic cop – listen for His signal – see and hear the spirit flow – Heaven and Earth together thru communion – His beckoning to us that it is safe to cross the intersection – His reckoning to those who pass to heaven – we all await His instructions.

Jesus is the Traffic Cop…

“We are all saints”,  that was my pastor’s take home message… and we often fail to understand that due to the semantics of language, and being down on ourselves, but we ARE all saints by virtue of Jesus, by victory of Jesus’s resurrection over death… (if I could have lingered at class or anywhere yesterday, I would have,  but I felt swept by the crowds of life…)

Now, don’t we ALL get swept by the crowds? – hard to hear any instructions huh?… we are yapping and fail to listen – sometimes Jesus needs to blow that whistle… Jesus helps us discern the spirit of truth vs the spirit of error… His whistle works both ways – hear the warning, see the way…

Worship in Spirit and in Truth… (LISTEN…)

Blowing the whistle, Jesus surely gets our attention, our closed ears open to the Holy Spirit flow – we move – we can commune and cross…. gee, cross – how did that verbiage translation sneak in there?… because of Jesus’ cross we can now cross safely to heaven… Jesus thru human death on a cross, crosses all of us over with Easter’s Resurrection…

Safe… saints on their way… thanks traffic cop Jesus… Can you see His hands? See His arms stretched out WIDE… thanks Jesus… we are safe thus far… amazing grace…

Safe travels all…

Happy Easter EVERYDAY…

AMEN

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1 John 4 Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. 2 This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God: Every spirit that acknowledges that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, 3 but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world. 5 They are from the world and therefore speak from the viewpoint of the world, and the world listens to them. 6 We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us; but whoever is not from God does not listen to us. This is how we recognize the Spiritof truth and the spirit of falsehood.

 

 

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“That I Might Live”, 11MAR

The repeat message for me these days is that Christ died so we could LIVE… But that repeat should not surprise me, that IS the point of LENT into Easter, the repeat message is Jesus came and is coming again, and the prayer is for us to know WHY… why would He work so hard for our Father, and die? why? “That I might LIVE”….

It’s Lent, sadly I have ignored it mostly so far,  just been busy,,, hard to figure out the seasonal cues this year too with wacky weather… I know Easter is coming, but I’m not ready – mentally or otherwise…

But there is still time, there is hope… We can focus on the message if we choose to.

The disciples were ignorant too… Not that I should use that as an excuse… It’s true that the closest followers of Christ saw miracles and performed miracles, and yet they were ignorant – actually the scripture from Mark (6:52) said “their hearts were hardened”…  WOW… (Michael Card’s book drove this point home for me)…  Yes, Jesus chose folks just like us – HUMAN… hardened hearts miss miracles…

What ceremonial thing should I “give up for lent?” Surely NOT chocolate this year… nope, the best thing I can give up is my ignorance. The best thing i can learn is to LIVE… I can choose to see the gifts every minute that God gives me, especially when I have gifted time to think about Him…

I can choose to give up ignorance… I can choose to see miracles all around…

Christ had compassion for His lost sheep… people are lost… yet my eyes were opened by God thru Christ… I don’t know why me,  why do i get to see the beauty amid the nasty parts of the age we live in? Why do I get to LIVE? Teach? Sing? Praise? Feel JOY? Love? Smile? Because Jesus took compassion to save me and I listened that JOY comes from the Lord…

My heart WAS and IS softened by God bringing me to Jesus – and it’s up to me to keep it from drying out… LENT brings Living Water as a repeat cleansing hydration… we need it… ours and my most cherished gift from God is to LIVE for Him. My ignorance is still great, but Jesus has compassion on me and us… He came to save all… one at a time… every one of us…

The last line of the song “Amazing Love” drives home that Jesus is driving us HOME… I remember now that I should buckle up, it’s Easter… time to LIVE.

And thru Jesus I will LIVE again… Amazing…

Amazing Love…

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Lyrics: Amazing Love (My Lord what Love is this),  Graham Kendrick

My Lord, what love is this
That pays so dearly
That I, the guilty one
May go free!

Amazing love, O what sacrifice
The Son of God given for me
My debt he pays, and my death he dies
That I might live, that I might live.

And so they watched him die
Despised, rejected
But oh, the blood he shed
Flowed for me!

And now, this love of Christ
Shall flow like rivers
Come wash your guilt away
Live again!

Amazing love, O what sacrifice
The Son of God given for me
My debt he pays, and my death he dies
That I might live, that I might live
That I might LIVE!

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It’s a Wacky World, 07MAR

Jesus lived in corrupt times… often people are very distraught that we live in corrupt times… we do and He did… life on earth is a work in progress…

John the Baptist, extremely important foreteller of Jesus, was beheaded because of a wacky world of corruption (Mark 6:14-29). He was beheaded by Herod who actually was intrigued by him… and he was beheaded because of Herod Antipas’ off-hand promise, made during a banquet with his wacky, corrupt family – a situation detailed by Mark and explained by Michael Card in his book elaboration of this “Gospel of Passion”…

Michael tells us that gospel writer Mark may have detailed the story for his readers about this impulsive evil mindless behavior of that ruler Herod because the readers were living in a time of Nero’s also brutal rule… it was re-confirming that evil is real, the world was wacky “in the olden times too” – but urging them to keep the faith – the need for Jesus’s hope was real then – the need for Jesus’s hope is real now…

Jesus lived as an example in corrupt times, and so can we…

Jesus was so distraught over the immediate senseless acts, and died for the long term evil influences of the world… He knew we live in a sea of evil influences – we need to keep swimming towards Jesus’s hand… and we can ask for the cleanse of His salvation.  We can grasp the hope others show too, they are living side by side with us on missions here and now.

To swim thru the wackiness of life, we must try to focus on a mission, be the good, do the right thing, show sacrifice for His mission…

And we need to tell redemption stories… explain where good triumphed over evil… spread the good news that we have the hope in Jesus to live now and forever… that we look for the path and so can they… we all can follow where Jesus lights the light…

Jesus had to forge His way thru a dark world filled with problems, ignorance, strife… He left not just breadcrumbs of a trail to lead us all home but he left the whole loaf of His existence for us to find, learn, acknowledge and emulate… His disciples like Mark took time to reach… so should we… our world work is our mission,  planting seeds, leaving more breadcrumb trails…

To follow Jesus out of the World has to start with our search for Him thru it first…

Keep the faith…

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John the Baptist Beheaded

¹⁴ King Herod heard about this, for Jesus’ name had become well known. Some were saying, “John the Baptist has been raised from the dead, and that is why miraculous powers are at work in him.”

¹⁵ Others said, “He is Elijah.”

And still others claimed, “He is a prophet, like one of the prophets of long ago.”

¹⁶ But when Herod heard this, he said, “John, whom I beheaded, has been raised from the dead!”

¹⁷ For Herod himself had given orders to have John arrested, and he had him bound and put in prison. He did this because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, whom he had married. ¹⁸ For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” ¹⁹ So Herodias nursed a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she was not able to, ²⁰ because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard John, he was greatly puzzled; yet he liked to listen to him.

²¹ Finally the opportune time came. On his birthday Herod gave a banquet for his high officials and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee. ²² When the daughter of Herodias came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests.

The king said to the girl, “Ask me for anything you want, and I’ll give it to you.” ²³ And he promised her with an oath, “Whatever you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

²⁴ She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?”

“The head of John the Baptist,” she answered.

²⁵ At once the girl hurried in to the king with the request: “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”

²⁶ The king was greatly distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he did not want to refuse her. ²⁷ So he immediately sent an executioner with orders to bring John’s head. The man went, beheaded John in the prison, ²⁸ and brought back his head on a platter. He presented it to the girl, and she gave it to her mother. ²⁹ On hearing of this, John’s disciples came and took his body and laid it in a tomb.

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Prepare the Way, 25Feb (Merry Christmas in February)

I don’t worry when it rains, when I stepped years ago into my house with the realtor, I heard my father repeating my grandfather’s advice “ALWAYS live on a hill”. It rains in spring, as it should, but those 100-year floods come seemingly way too often now, but we are ok, we are on the top of the hill. My neighbors are ok too, because this 1950’s subdivision was established most properly and all the water pours down to an already natural stream and flood plain… The builders took advantage of how the natural landscape already “prepared for rain”…

If there ever is a drought, the best thing a gardener or farmer can do is prepare for the coming flooding rains is prepare the soil by first softening the soil with water – presoak it – allow the soil to open and absorb the needed water.

Preparing for Jesus, we are to presoak in the SPIRIT, to make our own fields soft and ready…

All four Gospels recorded what Isaiah foretold: A voice of one calling: “In the wilderness prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.   –   And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all people will see it together.” (Isaiah 40, Mark 1, Matthew 3, Luke 3, John 1)

Prophet John urged us to Prepare the Way – get ready. I know you all already are absorbing His great comforting ways… You have strengthened your hearts… And still do…

In a similar fashion, just like if you are someone who placed your children in daycare, you remember those early days when they were sent home with so many new ailments – tough days – but that inoculation built immune system responses that prepared their way for them to be healthier and not missing school in the elementary years… They had already been exposed to the same or similar bugs… Similarly, if you got the flu shot to prepare, you may not cover every strain that comes our way in late winter, but you were able to build up a layer of defense – to be prepared to fight the real danger germs… And a tetanus shot? Well countless times I’m so glad I’ve had it (multiple times) – my immune system prepared for rain… my body prepared for pain… I stepped into the nails, scrapes and harm of day to day life… And my path to recovery was made ready…

We need Jesus for trekking with us through the droughts and pain-causing fields of life. We need to listen to our own wilderness and hear the SPIRIT whisper inside us – reaching and teaching. When we embrace His embrace, then we are prepared for the rain and the reign – to be good soil as we open our ears and the desert of our souls. Jesus is knocking… Let’s let Him in. Let Jesus pull you out and save from sinking when you took your eyes off Him.

We are preparing for now and for eternity: ” 7 Be patient, then, brothers and sisters, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer waits for the land to yield its valuable crop, patiently waiting for the autumn and spring rains. 8 You too, be patient and stand firm, because the Lord’s coming is near.” James 5

The Lord is “mighty to save”, as the song lyric harmonizes… So we are called to strengthen our hearts. Jesus is our way…

Prepare the Way…

Amen

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Prepare the way
Make straight the path for Him
Let the King of Glory enter in
Let the King of Glory enter in
Who is this King of Glory

The Lord strong and mighty
The Lord mighty to save
The earth is full of His glory
Creation calls prepare the way

His love endureth forever
His power is without an end
His strength is victory’s treasure
Let all who call His name prepare the way

Let the King of Glory enter in
Let the King of Glory enter in
Let the King of Glory enter in
Let the King of Glory enter in
Who is this King of Glory

Jared Anderson
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