Reconnecting

Why does it feel so difficult to connect with God sometimes?

Because fear is a shape-shifting obstacle, always making itself out to be bigger than it is. And because lies hold great sway in our hearts as long as we believe even a small bit of them.

But if we can sidestep fear and rejection for a moment and exist in a space of simple confidence - the middle ground between haughty and forsaken - to presume upon One whose very nature is a mystery...we just might find the other side of living. The kind of living that lights up EVERYTHING.

And if we can do it once we can do it again, and if we can do it multiple times we can establish a pattern in our journey that is cooperative with the benevolent Unknown.

from the other room...

"Here it comes. Here it comes. The joy-life. Seeing the future. Running with power. OH YES! Here it comes. Here it comes. Your Kingdom here on earth...just as it is in heaven."


(Little people echoes...filling the space with Greatness. )

HERE IT COMES
(Todd Warren)

I'm never so much alive as when I'm dreaming HUGE...believing You for things
No one's ever seen before...no one every knew could be done
The Spirit just calls us on...Your Spirit just leads us into
The reality of the bright glory of
Your sons being princes...your daughters princesses
Your children knowing who they are
Your children moving with Your purposes

HERE IT COMES
HERE IT COMES
THE JOY LIFE
SEEING THE FUTURE
RUNNING WITH POWER

HERE IT COMES
HERE IT COMES
YOUR KINGDOM HERE ON EARTH
JUST AS IT IS IN HEAVEN

So here is our faith...small as a seed but bright as the sunshine
Here is Your power...our of Your kind, good intentions
We're not stopping...we're throwing all of ourselves into your faithfulness
You will not fail us...for You have finished everything needed
The truth renews our mind and our environment changes
And we'll stay right here until our destiny comes full force

Plan on it, baby.
Thanks Jones and Shiloh for singing Daddy's song on your own time.
I needed that.

The Door

I'm sure that I saw Jesus today at the coffee shop.

Everyday banter with a stranger...bundling up and packing his books to leave...I say, "it's not getting any warmer out there." He says, with true grit, "yeah, I really feel for the ones on the street who don't have a home to warm up in." That was all.

He leaves. I watch him walk away. Hot drink in hand, I lead the child procession out the door into the five degree weather...weeping and wondering...tears freezing as they fall.

Comments and questions in the car on the way home center around, not our own comfort, but our welcome mat. Still wondering how to lay it down.

Timeless Christmas Cheering Section

(from the archives...and just for YOU)



The brightest STAR in the heavens fell to the earth over two thousand years ago.

I wish I could've been there to CATCH IT...

to hold in my hands the G-L-O-R-Y of God that had fallen to fill our darkened world with LIGHT...

and to grace us with its illuminating Presence.

BUT I WAS NOT YET BORN.



It's beauty was beheld by all who had eyes to see its [value], and the lives of those who looked upon this WONDER OF THE WORLD were forever changed.

It was a sacred star, and though it faded out of sight for a brief moment in history...

it was destined to RISE AGAIN, return to the sky, and take its rightful place in the universe.

And so it did.



The story of its falling and rising has been told for centuries...

and those who have ears to hear come to understand the M-I-R-A-C-L-E of its significance.

For me, this moment of truth came when this very same STAR fell into my heart and touched my e.x.p.e.r.i.e.n.c.e.

At ONCE, I realized that these hands of FLESH could never grasp such a mystery...

but my SPIRIT caught it's essence...

AND I WAS BORN.



As I stare at the STAR on the top of my tree this Christ-mas, I am deeply reminded of the REAL LIFE that I have been given in Christ...

and the high calling to GIVE IT AWAY.

It is my privilege to share it with you, my friends, and to bless you with all the Goodness, Hope, Healing, Peace, Beauty, Faithfulness, Redemption, Passion for Life, Freedom, Joy, and LOVE...that Jesus has to offer.



MERRY CHRISTMAS & MAY GOD BLESS YOUR NEW YEAR!