Cross Over

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Be brave, Beloved
Let your eyes take in the View

Step into this bounty

Meticulously Crafted,

Created,
just for you

all was ashes
all is Beauty
all was lost
all is New

Complete your Crossing

into All That Will Be,

behind you now nothing

but an unbroken sea

in which is buried
 all that is past,

all that imprisoned
and possessed you

Time now to Reap in Laughter
Time to Rest in Joy

Time to Return to the Land of the Living
to take leave of tears
and Begin

you endured,

Now Enjoy

Every Good and Perfect Gift

I had waiting for you

on this,

The Other Side

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"Have I not commanded you?  Be Strong and of Good Courage;
do not be afraid, nor be dismayed,
for the Lord your God is with you
wherever you go."
-Joshua 1:9

Held

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You can Let Go

Because I never do

You can relax your hold

Because it is I, The Most High

Who Holds You

Let fly, Let fly

My little one...

You are Mine

You are Mine

You are Mine

I AM height, I AM depth,

I AM width, I AM breadth,

and you are braced in Me

What fear can possibly remain

when you are so perfectly Loved,

when you have My Word

that Never, will I Ever, Ever forsake you?

What clinging can continue

when you are carved, My Beloved,

into the Very Hand of God?

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"God Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support.  I will not, I will not, I will not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let you down nor relax my hold on you!  Assuredly not!"

-Hebrews 13:5 (Amplified Version)

Resurrection...

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Feel Me

My Love

As close as Breath

And Inhale

Deep

Deep,

As Adam did

That First Breath

Which Began Life

In The Beginning

And Breathes Still

Lay Aside

dogma, deeds, dead works

(all these counterfeit conduits to Me)

And Come

Naked, Open Handed, Empty

Let Me Breathe Again

Breath of Life

Know, as Adam did

This intimate intubation 

Deity inseparably interwoven

with Dust

Enfolded,

Enmeshed,

Emmanuel

With you

In you

One with you,

and

Live

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"Prophesy unto the Wind...and say to the Wind,

'Thus says the Lord God:

Come from the four winds, O Breath, and Breathe upon these slain,

that they may Live."

-Ezekiel 37:9

Here Comes the Sun....

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.....sorry to so shamelessly 'borrow' from the Beatles there,
but Harrison said it so well, it bears repeating......

....especially today.....

it finally happened.....

the first day of

Spring

We made it.......

through the falling, the darkness, the dying......

the cold, the fear, the hard broken road........

Here We Are

on the other side...

Winter now graciously concedes,
her important work completed.

Satisfied, she steps aside,

to make room for Light,

for Life coming back,

for All Things New....

Here comes the Sun my friends,

it's going to be Glorious.

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"Their Path is like the light of dawn
which shines brighter and brighter
unto the Perfect Day"
-Proverbs 4:18

Dark

"I will give you the treasures of darkness,

and hidden riches of secret places"

-Isaiah 45:3

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It is a sacred trust to be subjected to the dark night of the soul.

True treasure is not brandished in broad daylight,

not before it is unearthed from punishing pressure,

considerable confinement,

darkness that feels like death,

black as night,

the treasure hunter subjected

to the same surroundings

as the treasure itself,

deep calling to deep

There is a communion with Christ which only happens

when we share in His sufferings,

when we are crucified with him,

when we undergo the extreme duress

despised by those content with cubic zirconias...

Therein true riches are found

Therein Gift is formed

From this burial we are unearthed

Resurrected

and we become the Reveal

of the One True God,

The Treasure

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"I, the Lord, form the light and create darkness"

-Isaiah 45:7

be healed....

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Healed, we become healers

A beautiful relay of Redemption

A domino effect of Divine Energy

and Grace

Paying forward what we could never have paid for

Freely Given, we freely give

and become fountainheads

for all who are thirsty

for all who need beauty

for whosoever will...

Quenching the thirst of thousands

Soothing weary souls

Holy hands holding gently,

tenderly,

broken hearts,

as our hearts are Held...

...till they too become whole

till they become healed

and in turn

come to know

for themselves

The Healer

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"The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me

to heal the brokenhearted"

-Isaiah 61:1

Beginnings - a haiku ...

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The waters subside

Tempest transformed to New Day

Noah's dove finds Rest...

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Isaiah 54:11,12

now....

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...the smoky taste of my coffee

brimming in my moody maroon mug..

Perfect...

puppy snoozing, breathing softly,

she knows all is well....

Vanilla and Sandlewood

flickering, burning away,

silent and golden in waning winter's light...

and steady Oaks

standing their snowy watch,

ancient and noble outside my window...

their stillness staying me,

grounding me,

in the gorgeous gracious Gift

of

now.

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Good Shepherd....

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He is good, you know....this Shepherd of ours......

not some distant deity,

but here,

nearer than touch,

eating, sleeping, breathing with us,

in it with us,

 for the long haul....

...through green pastures and the shadow of death alike,

guiding us,

rod and staff at the ready,

not to clobber us over the head for misdeeds and missteps,

but to Comfort us,

To Comfort Us....

He looks for and delights in, as all good parents do,

the wonderful in his children,

not what's wrong with them...

That misperception has been impressed on us

by others

by hirelings,

who do not know His heart...

A Heart so consumed with His Beloved

His Chosen

His very own Creation,

His Magnum Opus...

We have a Shepherd Who will go head to head

with anyone who dares say differently

A Shepherd Who will defend to the death

His own,

and indeed,

did just that,

at Calvary...

Shepherd became Sheep,

became Lamb of God,

taking the blows we could not bear,

dying the death He could not bear to see us die,

so that any doubt of His Devotion

of His Deep Abiding Love

would be removed Forever,

so we would follow,

unflinchingly,

fearlessly,

The Good Shepherd

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"I AM the Good Shepherd.  
The Good Shepherd gives His life for the sheep.  
But a hireling, he who is not The Shepherd,
one who does not own the sheep, 
sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep.
I AM the Good Shepherd; and I know My sheep,
and am known by My own."

-John 10:11-14

Live

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It's Safe now

The Storm has passed

Relax your bracing against the blast.....

.....It's Over.

You hung, my Love, feeling helpless

fearing I had forsaken you

when all the while it was I, hanging there with you,

and you with Me,

held by the nails of 

bewilderment,

betrayal,

disillusionment,

despair...

You were never alone, my Beloved,

not for one moment...

I was with you,

bled with you,

in your Garden of Gethsamane...

I walked with you this ancient Way

the road to this death...

But this death,

that felt so terrible,

that was so terrible, my Love,

so merciless,

brutal beyond bearing,

has set the stage for New Life,

for Knowing Me in a way you could not have otherwise,

for making Me known....

There is a time to die,

That time is Done.

You bore the cross with Me,

now it's time to be Born...

Here comes the sun, my Beloved One,

You died with me,

Now Rise with Me,

and Live.

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"I AM the ressurection and the Life;

though he died, yet shall he Live."

-John 11:25