Category Archives: Faith Living Now

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THE AMAZING SOLITUDE OF HOME WITH HIM


Sometimes I get busy and forget about the amazingness of solitude alone at home with Father.  Without it, my heart and soul sink into a gray abyss of lack.  Lacking hope, lacking joy, lacking even the perception of The Kingdom and the vision of perfection here on Earth.  Like a car running out of gas.

It’s a stupid thing to let happen, especially when He and I are talking all the time.  But that busy talking isn’t like the amazingness of solitude at home.  It’s a place where I’m completely alone with Him and sit and breathe and let the world spin without me.

It’s where the miraculous is born.

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AH, FIRST LOVE!

Very unexpectedly Father gave me dreams that brought back all the emotions and thrills of my first love.

I remembered the time I got ready for the day and knew my hair was perfect, my makeup was awesome, and I was rockin’ from head to toe. And all of it was because of his eyes.  They smoldered and got that look like his heart was melting right before my eyes.  I was cherished and loved more than anyone in the world at that moment, and I knew it.

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WHERE IS THE KINGDOM OF GOD WITHIN ME?

The kingdom within me is everything that lives in my heart.  That means people and things I love.  It’s also all the things that touch my heart every day.

I used to think that The Kingdom of God was only God’s.  It belonged to Him and I was simply an inhabitant.  Like when I lived in Denver, I was a Denver-ite but the city didn’t actually belong to me.  I only claimed it as a resident.

Then a few light-bulb moments and a couple revelations later, I saw how The Kingdom of God was laid out.  

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REACHING INTO THE UNKNOWN

I heard a Physicist on TV say that dark matter “Is like peering into the unknown with a flashlight until we see the next thing.  And that next thing will be the place where we will peer into the unknown again.”  The process is always forward.

Father once said to me that all great spiritual movements of the world could have launched the next one.  Except, we plant ourselves on them and stop looking forward.

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DREAMS & VISIONS

Dreams and visions have always been part of my life.  Everyone in the family had them at times and we believed in their messages but weren’t always good at deciphering them.

The first dream of consequence happened when I was 7 years old.  It simply depicted a pretty church with a steeple and stained glass windows, suddenly falling across the road in an earthquake.  It was frightening and scared me.

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INTRODUCING CHAOS

So what happens when you’re finally living in pure Peace and someone comes along introducing chaos?  Shock, surprise, annoyance, pushing back, and maybe a glass of wine?

They might not be the best responses for us to take, but who’s judging?  Especially since I did them all.

I like to think I’m an awesome, loving Christian and that people are healed from their chaos when pulled under my blanket of peace.  I’ve seen it happen, but it wasn’t always a quick process and it didn’t always happen overnight.

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THE TRUE COMFORT OF BEING

Recently a friend posted a note saying he’d come to a place of complete comfort in his Being.  My heart leaped with joy as he described what I have also been experiencing.  And the longer the post remained, the more people joined the conversation with stories of similar experiences.

Arguments and debates around scripture are long past, relegated to a different stage of experiencing God.  And it’s simply not a place we can return to and participate from anymore.

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SOME OF MY JOURNEY FROM EGO TO TRUE BEING

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A few years ago, Father took me on a journey to see my real Being, not my ego-based one.  It started with what I call a “flash” vision.  Like a flash, it was there one second and gone the next.  Since, I was in the middle of doing some household chores, I didn’t pay any attention.

Father said, “I just showed you something.”  And immediately I knew He had.  But what was it?  I’d missed it.  And no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t remember it. Continue reading SOME OF MY JOURNEY FROM EGO TO TRUE BEING

THE FRUSTRATIONS OF OUR DIFFERENCES

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Did you have the frustrations of being a child with an older sibling?

The first time my older brother went on a date, I was about 5 years old.  And I wanted to go too.  After all, he was going to a movie with a friend and he was staying up past bedtime.  There was no fair reason that I couldn’t go with him.

And I remember the little grin on his face as I got madder and madder.

I wasn’t wrong about bedtime.  It was a rule.  So, why was it OK with Mom and Dad that my brother break the rules?  And if it was OK for him to break the rules then it should be OK for me to break them too! Continue reading THE FRUSTRATIONS OF OUR DIFFERENCES

LOOKING AND DISCOVERING OTHER GODS

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It was an odd day when I began seeing the other gods.  They’d been there all my life but I hadn’t looked this closely.  Very few people in my circles had looked either.  So, it felt weird to finally see what they were.

“Thou shalt have no other gods before me.” Exodus 20:2

 

We thought it was simple to see other gods and know what they are, but it isn’t.   Some of them stand there on their pedestals right in front of us for everyone to see.  Yet even while we are polishing them, we don’t recognize what they are. Continue reading LOOKING AND DISCOVERING OTHER GODS