Transfigured

I, like most humans, believe that there must be some offering on my part– a sacrifice to to speak.

I like to think about how alchemy works with trauma (miraculously shifting the chaos into beauty)

While this Isn’t untrue, relying on Jesus is a whole other sort of MIRACLE.

When Spirit kept inviting me into being strategic, I pursued some new challenge for my brain like chess or Othello.

But when I got to my father’s home, sure I took the initiative to go but then after that, it seemed like Love took over. I yielded my body and a great, merciful Love flowed freely.

Somehow in my dealings, my friend Nita said I had been very strategic in my humble approach. And I thought “that’s not me”.

But you see Christ is all in all.

Wherever you desire some quality or fruit you don not possess, he does possess it. Will you let HIM possess you?

He can make wine from water– no grapes needed.

He can make something out of nothing.

And you don’t have to sacrifice..you don’t have to provide the trauma or the substance. You simply have to show up and believe.

We love to do our part and I’m all for it– co-redeeming, co-creating, co-resurrecting. AND AlLSO, can we sit still and receive our gift in the solitude of the silence which surrounds the voice of the coming Lamb.

Just letting ourselves be found and in this way, transformed.

#Lent2023#thoughtsoftheday#TuesdayThoughts

Daddy Loves You

An elderly man is petting his large, black lab while professing a great love

Can you see it? His large hand on the back of the lovely beast

Stroking and repeating gentle words

Words with power infused

I’m sorry I left you for so many hours sweetie

Daddy won’t leave you like that again

Daddy is here now

I love you

That man is my birth father

This moment is the 3rd occasion I am in his company and it all began 4 months earlier when I turned 50

Somehow through the Spirit, I knew he was speaking to me, my little girl inside

The one he’d abandoned a half century before

The dog was a male

and yet he kept referring to him as a her

Another tell-tale sign that there was more, much more happening right beneath the surface

of this most ordinary of moments

I left the next day and repeated this conversation inside my heart dozens of times

I now know for certain that I have a Daddy, who I’ve decided to call Padre

who cannot leave me, cannot not love and adore me

For His nature is that of sacrifice

of Peace

and of Divine Love

I call Him Jesus the Messiah