The closer I come to Jesus, the more stark and contrasting the world appears. It is beginning to turn to grays, but the more I am with Him, take council in His word, fellowship with His disciples, pull away from the distractions of this life, it blackens. This life is tremendously grotesque. The only beauty I can truly see of Him is His unmeasureable Nature, companions professing His love, and the unfolding beauty of my own relationship with Him. These are three beautiful consistencies I see in this life.

a thought if you will.

I call them temporary fixings. It's what catches our eyes, we must have and so we get and sometime later we get bored and discard.

But with Him, He is eternity. It takes us forever to notice Him, off again on again we entertain Him, but sometime later we become unexplainably attached to Him and from there something incomprehensible happens within our souls that we must have Him indefinitely.

Beloved,

Again the theme of "make it simple" comes into affect. If His glory is to be my life's narrative, my body will glorify Him, my thoughts will glorify Him, my words will glorify Him, my actions will glorify Him, every ounce of me, my soul, my being will glorify Him. And if I glorify Him to my family, my friends, my colleagues, and to each stranger, to all who talk to me or see me, I will glorify Him to the universe.

It's not complicated; it's simple, however the weight behind glorifying Him is unimaginable. I don't just want to glorify Him with my self, but also with my marriage, with my husband, with my children. I want my family to be a testimony of His all consuming presence in our lives. And of course, the only way that will happen is if I start glorifying Him today, here in this moment.

So I say: Jesus loves me, He is the reason for my being, and I pray that my words turn into actions; be it through a cheerful, smiling attitude, words of His love to a friend. Again Jesus loves me. It's simple. May He through me show the world this simplicity. Amen.

Beloved,

I am going through the process of purging my life of white noise, nicknacks and itty bitty stumbling blocks that get in the way of my relationship with my Father in heaven.

What makes it possible is just the fact that I want to know Him more, want to be all consumed by Him and have Him in every inch of my life. And as I go through this process of discarding or destroying these nuisances, I am beginning to realize just how thirsty I am, realizing how hollow and empty I am, seeing how far away I am. The truth of where I was in my walk and talk with my Best Friend was incredibly blunt, but the Spirit was leading to me a moment where I would look around and realize He wasn't my everything.

As David said in Psalms 139:23, "Search me, O God, and know my heart" To allow Him that intimacy, I need to let Him in, give Him access to everything that pertains to me.

Father, Abba, help me to be a reader of the life stories around me. Impress upon me the need to open the "bookcovers" that come in and out of my life and to delve deeply into their text. May I, through my actions, share Christ's story to those I interact with. Amen

AMEN!!

The Coming Oil Crisis, by Ivor Myers

As I was talking to her, I said, "With the person I'm with or I'm involved in, I want to say "This is it." Every time that I can remember, but now, no more. I now say, my Everything is for my Father, He is it."

Father God, Christ - You are it. I want what You want. You choose for me.

I want what my Father wants for me. I know not myself and I trust not my heart.

Amen...