“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.” Psalm‬ ‭32:8‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Good morning, GuidedHeart,

How’s your walk? My brother, Russ, calls sometimes just to ask. I love that. 

The more of life I get under my belt, the more I know that there are no accidents in life. Every challenge, every step is part of God Most High’s greater pattern. 

Just about the time our emotional toolbox gets to that place we can breath again, change gets triggered. Sometimes, it feels like we can’t catch a break – or, can we? Looking back on events that I think should have killed me, the truth glows that The Creator always brings exactly what we need, precisely when we need it. While He made no sense to me at the time, His ways have always proven right. Always. Always. 

Whatever dark night you may be walking, DearOne, whatever hate your shield may be deflecting or pit you may be mired down in, your Counsel is preparing you – His loving eye is not blinking away from you – your instruction is moving in whether you sense Him, or not. He is moving on your behalf. 

Wake up. 

Stay alert. 

Go. 

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“17 Was I fickle when I intended to do this? Or do I make my plans in a worldly manner so that in the same breath I say both “Yes, yes” and “No, no”?

21 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.”  ‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭1:17, 21-22‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Good morning, BlessedOne,

Sometimes life challenges the beliefs of even the most loving people, doesn’t it? I read a quote from the Archbishop of Canterbury, and it stuck, (paraphrased) “When you see the depth of energy that people can put into evil, then there is a flicker of doubt in humanity. It would be inhumane not to react with sadness and doubt.”

Even when we know there are spiritual reasons people make tragic and hurtful and downright ugly decisions that have long-term impact, we still try to make sense of them. So, how are we to pray “positive” prayers while we are hurt and just want the pain to stop? The power of blessing is the key to our healing. 

There is a space that is given to you and me by our Maker. This space … between this breath, and the next is a place of creation: cycles that start or stop, grow or fade, live or die. All possibilities exist from this place. Think about it. What kind of Creator sets that kind of power in place for us?! He thought of everything. You and I have the choice and the power to change our lives, to bring peace into our hearts – through the magical moments that we choose to bless it. 

Bless the person. 

Bless the event. 

Bless the growth. 

Bless the pain’s purpose. 

Bless the journey. 

Between breaths, decide, and bless it. 

Your will, Lord.  Nothing more. Nothing less.  Nothing else. 

Wake up. 

Bless it. 

Go. 

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“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.” ‭John‬ ‭13:34‬ ‭

Good morning, Beloved,

I love love. Simple. Profound. Let’s see. I don’t know if I can explain this in words: love keeps me in God’s power. Here’s the deal … when someone attacks, naturally-we humans want to hurt right back. It is important to remember that it isn’t about you, there are people who feel better/smarter by pointing out things that are wrong with what you are putting out, rather than creating something of value of their own. Very often, they are trying to cover their own mistakes by lashing out. Love sees through their attack. And, lets the hate-energy pass right on through, so then, that lets your Creator’s love stay high and lifted up where He shows you His truth delivers peace. He holds you steady in His grace. 

They could choose an attitude or a work or a mission or a hobby to bring change to their world instead of using up all their energy trying to bring about more pain on themselves and others. If you listened to their negativity and changed what you were doing, it wouldn’t make a difference, they would just find a new thing to complain about. That’s just the brain wiring of a negative person–look for what is wrong. If you can’t cut them out of your life and need help not letting their negativity get to you, think of it through thru the heart of love: they aren’t attacking you, personally, they’re just running into stuff that happens to be there because being negative, being a victim, is a self-fulfilling prophecy. 

So is choosing to be Love-filled. 

Wake up. 

Love love. 

Go. 

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“Praise him with cymbals and a big bass drum, praise him with fiddles and mandolin. Let every living, breathing creature praise GOD! Hallelujah!” ‭‭Psalm‬ ‭150:5-6‬ ‭MSG‬‬

Hello, DearHeart, 

I wonder if the reason we humans adore the sound of drums might be because the sound echoes our own heartbeat? Drumming sounds transport us, have you noticed? Growing up in southwest Oklahoma, the drumming of our Native American families has accompanied my background. A constant. It is simply, unexplainably, there. A hum to daily life. The Holy Spirit in us rises to the surface at the drawing power of the beat. Drums tend to capture our heart and take us on a journey whether we nod to go along, or not. And, if the heart gets taken, we are solid gone – we can live with only one kidney, or lung, or part of the brain … but, take the heartbeat and the life is radically and instantly altered forever. 

Our Creator set gifts in place for you and me at every trace. He uses every means, including tones in music, in voices, in the sound of wind through a tree, or a keyboard to change the dance of your day. He sets escape routes to be accessed and altered by sounds. When there is a beat, we know He has called an army of His holy hosts to unwrap and awaken layers in you and me. 

I cannot know what will be sung up, drummed up in you today. You can be assured that what calls your heart to hear Him will be refined very specifically for you. And, if you slow to take notice, it will be arresting. 

Wake up. 

Hear His drumming. 

Go. 

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“Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.” ‭‭Psalm‬ ‭55:22‬ ‭ESV‬‬

Good morning, Sojourner,

Almost every day we drive by white crosses at the side of the road. They’ve been there for years, marking the resting place of three lives. Right there, on that spot, their journey in life came to an abrupt halt, and their lives and the lives of many others were altered forever. 

Last weekend, I asked a group to make a timeline of their lives. I asked them to list, year by year by year, their most significant events. By doing so, other dreams, emotions, and decisions going on around each during that time will surface as well. 

Try it. It will take some time. 

Notice how God is so faithful – the thread you trace is a powerful reminder that He can be trusted to carry you through to His next place of victory for you. 

There will be places you need to mark with a white cross, places of profound tragedies you need to lay down – roads not taken, paths cut off, ambushes, deaths. There will be places that need to be mourned, and places you will write “forgiven” over that you have already released. 

Your Creator places meaning on each memory. Ask Him to guide you through what needs to be forgotten, what needs to be laid to rest. 

Be gentle with yourself, the dark times have been necessary love-notes. They have lent transforming powers. There is a lot to be said for pinning things to the earth so they don’t follow us around. Laying bitterness to rest creates the opening where thankfulness polishes and glides you and me into Arms of unshakable peace. 

His arms await. 

Wake up. 

Timeline it. 

Go. 

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‘“Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom. And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” ‭‭2 Corinthians‬ ‭3:17-18‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Hello, WildHeart,

I paused one time, while riding across a pasture, and just to my right was a baby fawn bedded down in tall grass. Momma cows bed their newborn calves down in love-grass much the same way – so when the breeze blows, the tall strands loosen and cover veil-like over the top of the infant. I stared a moment-thinking that what I was looking at wasn’t real. Veiled, like a bride walking the aisle. 

To be behind the veil is mysterious, isn’t it? The Creator sets certain insight there, a space contained … powerful … and just out of reach in the right kind of way. It is often here, when God Most High sets us behind a veil, that the Holy Spirit takes over again, as The Guiding Light. He leads you and me from the veil to the His place of the soul’s home. From here, to the next place of help, to the next, where our fiery and flowering soul gains roots again. In the surface, nothing much changes. But, beneath the skin, He most definitely unveils His most powerful forces.  

Wake up. 

Notice the deeper work. 

Go. 

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“Jesus said to him, “Shall I come and heal him?” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭8:7‬ ‭NIV‬‬

Hello, HealingHeart, 

Of course, Jesus! He knew the answer, but He needs us to ask – to articulate our needs. 

Sometimes, life deals set backs. Our Luke has had a rough year with injuries; it’s been tough … one step forward and two steps back since January. If I only had a dime for every prayer of “please, God, let it be me, not him again.”  

He is learning that ultimately, even when things are out of his control, he gets to choose how he reacts and responds to everything…slightly reckless, downright defiant, make it up as ya go, fly by the seat of your pants. It’s been peaks and valleys every week – from ‘this may be the end’, to ‘this is my tour of duty to becoming sold-out-soul-fire successful’. 

Take notice: the very moment that we reach far into the depths of our souls to ask for the power to give new meaning to things that hurt us most, we discover great wisdom shared by The Master Teacher. His wisdom says, “Annngelllaah, there is beauty EVEN HERE, in places you think it could never exist. The power to see beauty is a choice.”

How about you? Right here is a place where His hand has created a certain healing gift waiting for you to acknowledge – more than just seeing, but to experience with your heart and mind and soul … to experience it brings the breath of The Holy to enter our own breath … filling us with His sacred wind that sings His life into us … through us … and, when co-mingled with the healing breath of our Creator it causes us to create moments of intense and holy poetry. Healing. Feel that. 

Wake up. 

Notice healing beauty. 

Go. 

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