look at the seed—it in itself contains the potential to become the plant (even the fruit!), but it must take time. it must take air, must water, must sunshine. & if it be submitted to this process of receiving & rest, growth will grow. submit to Design & with time, submission will multiply into growth, into gifts to give others—shade, fruit, a home. so become in the secret quiet. let the Designer take His time to make you fully Thine. discover the sweetness in trust & you will yourself become sweet. receive the gift daily. receive rain. receive sun. receive...
the same water splashing as Jesus came up from his baptism is in the earth today. the same water Naaman washed in and was healed is today a fountain still rushing. the same water parted in the Red Sea when God delivered His people from the Egyptians lives now. the water that carried Noah and his family in the ark, the water that Rebekah watered the camels with, the water Jesus washed his disciples’ feet with, the water that gushed from our Saviour’s side… still flows here—covering ocean beds, flooding river basins, flushing toilet bowls, dewing fields and watering gardens,...
the breath circulating in out in my mind logging memories while I sleep crisp air fried broccoli for lunch my body’s ability to digest that I have legs and that they work to walk the promise of the rainbow the flowers smiling just out my window forks the sky bright and blue the roof above the floor below the fact that I can change; my past is not my future because the cross is real blood God’s word my ability to go out and purchase groceries each friend each toe (especially the pinkie one without which I would be terribly...
how many jellyfish jig dance recitals has God choreographed, for an audience of One? how many waterfalls gush in secret, cascading down cliffside or mountain crag, hidden and glorious? how many stars He named, for none but Himself! how many ant parades He’s led, how many birds’ songs He’s composed, how many baby birds He’s coaxed out of their nest for their first time to fly, or sunrises He’s painted, storms He’s sketched. & all for Himself! we really are ignorant of all these grandiose and important daily miracles! yet God conducts it all, from His beauty for His glory....
the tree is laughing all my hurt swallowed by music i can’t stop singing these battle wounds now battle scars, marks who testify—rebirth occurs can’t tie me down can’t cage these cells the Breath Beginner freed me the Greenblue Marble Speaker spoke & stonecold death broke flesh tent coursing, can’t contain, shaking from fullness gonna overflow everywhere i go my feet tap to His happy clap, their soles painted glee leave prints in minds & sidewalk squares. a simple song—Be Free now a wave, now another, gush, asking to have me yes! i say thank you for proposing my rainbow...
quiet still water like an uninterrupted sky, sits. the pond speaks in silence. suddenly a green bump from a lily circle leaps—her great finesse, flying through the air, flinging her whole self forward with one grand leap. a royal proclamation of God’s creativity, wisdom, and beauty. no one jumps like the frog! zoom in on these propelling frog legs, made with denser muscle fibers and other special factors that make a frog capable of leaping like no other creature on earth. frog, known for her strange leg strength, sings or rather croaks a frequency of God’s glory that no other...
twist, turn, splish, kerplosh, fall—into arms open wide! grace is a lot like a water slide. God carries us to Himself. we breathe, hop in, and trust—going with the flow of the Spirit as He carries us where we’re meant to be, in Father’s arms. we obey though we don’t always see, following the laid out path to Father God, the end of it all a rapturous joy full of laughter, light and glee! will you go with Holy Spirit flow, submitting and surrendering afresh each dawn, knowing Father God is worthy of our trust? many children hesitate at...
