free falling. falling free. falling into. free in. Love. falling into Love. free in Love. to free fall into anything requires absolute trust. free falling leaves no room for plan B, for once you are falling it is too late. but oh the surety of falling into Love! Love is boundless and limitless and infinite and ceaseless and measureless and no safer place exists to fall into than Love. and Love is not just a word. Love is a person. Love is Jesus and Love leads us to the heart of the Father.
and as each heart falls into Him, it is like an ember from a fire leaving a golden trail in the darkness. or a falling star blazing across the night sky. for a heart cannot fall with surrender complete without being seen! the light blazing within simply cannot be hidden! the brightness illuminating and casting its glow will pierce the darkness as it radiates of Love and life and freedom and redemption all because of those arms of love. and even those daring not to gaze directly into the light will be impacted by its warmth and life. and when free falling into His arms, one cannot help but be in the center of His plan, for to fall free is the ultimate form of surrender and all pretense of control shatters into pieces on the ground, leaving the heart free to move as one with Him into the beautiful unknown. free falling falling free into His arms of Love.
that moment when He gently reminds you that His thoughts are not your thoughts. His ways are not your ways. your thoughts and ways, my thoughts and ways, are not even in the same universe as His. and yet I forget. it's not that my ways are necessarily wrong or bad. it's not that my thoughts are not of Him or even from Him. it's simply that they cannot even be likeHis for He lives and breathes and dances and sings in a realm outside of time and space as we humans know it. and is it not even difficult to grasp that we cannot grasp it?
the symphony of creation is always shouting and whispering and singing of who He is. the beat of His heart underlies all of creation. the sun and moon and stars and planets and galaxies and oceans and mountains and valleys and wind and rain and storms and trees and wildflowers and meadows and rivers and lakes and animals and birds and fish and whales and starfish and seahorses and every living creature, including you and me, are part of that symphony, with a song and a story one of a kind. and is it not even difficult to grasp that we cannot grasp it?
such is the realm of His thoughts and of His ways. so when He whispers that He sees what I cannot see and knows what I cannot even begin to know and that without the darkrooms of life the story would not be complete and He is holding your heart and my heart and even the hearts not wanting to be held and nothing will ever separate us from His love... I. need. to. listen. and trust that He can be trusted to be trusted.
"I want you to show love, not offer sacrifices. I want you to know Me more than I want burnt offerings." Hosea 6:6
dear Child, you often ask what I would have you doing in this season of your life. you pray and you listen. you listen and you pray. you long to know that you are in the center of My plan for you. and rightly so. "I want you to show love, not offer sacrifices. I want you to know Me more than I want burnt offerings." listen carefully, My Child. show love and mercy. seek to know and love Me more. for out of these two actions flows My Kingdom. and they are the highest calling I place on any heart for no higher calling exists.
now hear Me well, Child. if you live only to know My glory and beauty and love and life and all that is Me, you will have missed so much of that for which I created you! for to know and love Me is to allow all that is Me to overflow from all that is you. and that point of collision is where My Spirit simply takes over, and lives around you will be touched and changed in My name. have you considered, My Child, that perhaps the thing or event or whatever it is to which you sense Me calling you is actually happening this very moment? that I am simply waiting for you to join Me in the journey? there is a door, My Child, and it is open for you now. I understand your fears and doubts, yet you must trust that I have placed the desire, the burning, the passion within you and by faith you must take the first step for I will not part the water until you get your feet wet. and never will I drag you into that for which I have called you. you fear getting ahead of Me. hear Me, Child. I would much rather have to gently draw you back a bit and slow your pace than have to reignite the flame within! for that is what will happen. by waiting and contemplating and yes, even praying more, you will go nowhere and the flame will slowly die out. oh not by the bucketful, but by drop after drop after drop of doubt and fear and questioning, the flame will be extinguished.
the time is now. and I am for you, not against you, so step out and follow your heart for I am leading your heart and where I am leading, I already am.
so just when you've convinced yourself that you've pretty much got it together, the glue comes loose, the duct tape falls off. and you know. and even if you already knew that you didn't have it together, at least most of world living outside of you thought you did. until this moment. and your moment is different from my moment, and the other person's moment is different from yours or mine and so on and so on. and in all reality, does it matter what exactly caused the moment? no. it simply matters that the the moment exists.
why? you might ask. what is significant about the moment when the mask is removed and the truth is known? (although not every person has had a moment, I believe most of us have, or will have at some point) and the importance is this... when we realize when we accept that we can no longer pretend to have it all together a burden is released. a weight falls off our shoulders. for is it not exhausting to live in a masquerade? we. can. be. real. we can allow ourselves to be vulnerable and honest. not only with others, but even more crucial, we can be honest with God. He knew all along, for He knows all. yet He patiently waits for each heart to wave the white flag of surrender and begin the process that leads to ultimate healing and redemption so beautiful in Him.
and. it. can. happen. I know. I've lived it. and I had a choice to make... we all have a choice to make. (often more than once) do we want to open doors most likely holding pain but which will lead to healing, or do we want to push it all aside and begin a new masquerade? duct tape and glue are always an option, but to use them again and again brings a heaviness and hopelessness. God doesn't ask for hearts for lives to be without a need for glue and duct tape... He simply asks that we lay the broken pieces of who we are in His hands. He will gently hold and heal and love. and through the cracks and chips of our imperfection His light will shine. He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds. Psalm 147:3