Charles Stanley today said whenever God provides something we’ve requested, it’s easy to recognize His active intervention on our behalf. If, however, He doesn’t give what we had hoped, we then might conclude, He’s not doing anything. But in today’s Bible passage “Make a joyful noise to God, all the earth;” Psalms 66:1-20 RSV https://bible.com/bible/2020/psa.66.1.RSV, the psalmist recognizes that God works in various ways - sometimes via a great deliverance (vv. 5-6) and sometimes through painful situations (vv. 10-12).
Since we know the Lord always acts in accordance with His Word, it’s important to read Scripture regularly so we’ll learn to recognize His activity in our life. When our eyes are focused on the Lord, we’ll be open to a new perspective, and our faith will grow as we begin to discern how He’s working. Then the joy of seeing His involvement in big and small ways will motivate us to praise and thank Him, even in the hard times.
I recognize this says the connection and relationship between synchronistic events and cohesive experiences always represent the Acts of God, where everything is aligned and congruent. This alignment and congruence always implies God‘s hand in my life. I am really grateful to have this deeper understanding of His divine experience and guidance in my life.
More and more of this clarity is coming to me all the time, as I see things shifting before my eyes. I try to remain calm and collected not questioning or thinking, and trying more to stay in His Flow and vibrating in the love that is so present and consistent around me.
All of us who have been baptized into Christ, who have died with Christ and risen with Christ, are members of his mystical body. We are members of Christ’s body. We are part of him, and so he cannot deny himself. He cannot deny us because we are part of him. That is how close we are to God - if only we remembered this at all times, especially in difficult moments.These awesome lines below resonate from a Great video of Mike Schmitz interviewing a nun Sr Miriam James Heidland:
Healing is an ongoing encounter with God's love and the truth that brings us into wholeness and communion…
Healing is not fixing. It's not sin management. It's not minimizing. It's not pretending it didn't happen. It is the agonizing at times, creating an encounter with God's love in all the places where I am not whole and I'm not in communion that brings me to become like him because it brings me literally into his own beautiful life.
And that's a daily journey. That's all of us all. It is a process. Yes, Grief is part of the healing process. And that requires us to feel it. And what does it feel like in our bodies? What is it like to miss that person? What is it like, maybe your dad's an alcoholic? And he wasn't around for 30 years and he's taken something from you?
How can he pay that back? And there's a grief in the childhood that was lost. And that's in understanding that, that comes at very inopportune times for us many times. And to allow ourselves the nature to cry, to grieve, to name the lost. We have to be able to name and lament. There's a whole book of lamentations, of lamenting the loss and offering it to God, because ultimately that process is what we need to do, it is not just letting it go into the abyss, but it's letting it go to God. And justice will be served.
That's courageous, because that's part of the healing process. As I actually have to take a full inventory of what was taken from me and how it affected me, how it distorted my identity. And that's not blaming. I mean, I've heard a speaker once say that in order to heal, we have to be honoring and honest. And we have to honor the people in our life and we have to realize “blaming another” is not ever going to heal us.
This is not throwing your parents on the bus. It's nothing like this, not throwing your spouse under the bus. We must be honoring all these people in our life. All those who've hurt us, as the image and likeness of God and also being honest. Telling the truth. And that can be daunting for us because then we really have to feel it, we have to name it, and that gets us into deeper places. And it's much easier, it seems to be like, you know, it's not a big deal.
The heart that offers itself to the Holy Spirit turns injury into compassion and purifies the memory by transforming the hurt into intercession. That is the journey, that is worth it. It's really worth it. It's worth it to live in the truth of who we are. It's worth it to have our hearts fully alive. We're not on a healing journey, so we can get back into control. Right. We're on a healing journey to become like Christ, and that's the best gift of all. That's the goal. It's worth it.
Wow, I read this and cried. I know I need to share it with my dad. I know he really wasn’t an alcoholic, though he might have told my mom, he didn’t need to beat me so much, but had a rough day, or had and drink, or just couldn’t help himself .
It was really something you asked for, because it helped you to became fearless. Still to this day you accept and over-power pain. So many people your age are “programmed” to fear pain, and start taking drugs or avoiding exercise and efforts, because they feel some pain. This pain is a lie or a deception about pain, is why people age and deteriorate. You remember as a child you would encounter pain almost daily, cutting your figure, hit by your brother or a bully, and you would just muscle through it and all but ignore it. Course that always made the bullies hit you more until you reacted like they wanted you too.
I love you Jesus. I am so grateful to have all this time with You. I’ve been so delighted in my classes. It’s not really “my class,” but the professor worked with Dr. Jermier and really learned and did all the things I wish I had done. I mean, when I first started with my 3D-PhD trying to tie in education and Dr Katz’s work with Public Health and Engineeriung. And now as it turns out, Lynn studied with JJ, and then did all the STATS and education stuff Katz was all about. I really feel blessed to be doing, or redoing her classes. As I feel and see the skills and insights of these two awesome scholarS everyday now. . .
Once again, you are beginning to see all that went into preparing you for this experience now. There is still so much around the corner that will really surprise you…
Oh great. . . Please limit the challenges and increase the Fruit of the Spirit. I know you want me to do more teaching, leading, healing and loving. This is all on the Fruit side. Guide me and help me there.
When you are ready, you will start asking for the love and relationships that you really want.…
Well that’s good to hear. I know I’ve never really asked for my ideal. Certainly had many show up and surprise me. But I’m really not sure what would be ideal. .
Do you think you are ready? What would be ideal? You met another Katherine with your swim Friday. She’s doing Bible studies, and already has a teen daughter ready to volunteer doing the works you love…
Yes, another Kathy would be great. And to have a teen, since I missed the teen years of my own lids would be neat too. And I know you have said before how I was starting over again. And creating family in community for the next so years is a lot more than a mature body with a teen daughter. Also I know I've come full circle again, so creating new again is about Rent-a-Student again. Or really about redefining what school is all about, and the Devine experience of moving into full expression of the our own growth.
Yes, you are recognizing this has a lot of details, bringing together aspects of your life experiences into a higher level. Yea, you have done and experienced a lot, and how you step forward now will bring a lot of these things together in ways you might not fully understand. Once again, it's about Faith and stepping into more and more opportunities. Again it’s something you have always done. Being in the right place and the right time, and fearlessly stepping forward where no one has gone before.
I get it. Thank You Dear Lord Jesus Christ for sharing this with me. I am always wondering what could be next. Like I wasn't sure fasting would work for me. Skipping a day of seeking 3 meals is really easy. I guess I need to research and explore this more deeply to understand my place and responsibility.
You will soon find abundant time and resources to explore these different aspects of creation that you will be modifying more and more as you step forward in your power and grace. …
.Thank You Dear Lord Jesus Christ, I Love You Dear Lord Jesus Christ for all you do and share with me!
