Every Part...

As lIfe moves in ever widening patterns, touching down here, touching down there, I see-feel-hear-know I am safe in the mighty arms of a heavenly Father who has orchestrated each step out of hell and into peace, into compassion, into grace and joy.

Each and every cell within my body cries out in gratitude and a heart filled with thankfulness to a God who has never been more real than this moment in time.

To my non-believer friends, bear with me as I expound on forging a relationship out of terror and desperation, out of too many near-death moments to count.

It could be postulated that fear instigated moments of imagination and fantasy... oh my friends, it wasn't fear, nor death knocking so closely at my door...no dear treasures, it was the moments of PEACE within those excruciating instants of rage-fueled hands-on 'lessons.'

The bits and pieces of pain and terror interjected with calm, with a sense of a mighty presence staying the hand of my would be murderer.

Once again, so dramatic, no?

And yet... this was my story...never knowing if that day would be the last...never understanding the place I had arrived to, without knowing how I had sunk so low in a pit of despair and confusion, kicking at the bars of my cage in desperation.

Every cell cries out to God... no matter the circumstance, no matter the timeline and where I thought I should be by now...no matter.

I rest in arms of love...

I stand with confidence born of experience, born of understanding...

I know love as I've never known it, much less understood the width and breadth of it...

If I never love another, if another never loves me, oh my dear friends... I am absolutely and irrevocably at peace, alone.

For I have found an everlasting love... I have found acceptance and find myself hooked on being cherished, being KNOWN and loved and SEEN.

That light at the end of the tunnel I spoke of so often in past blogs is REAL... it is the end of an era, the end of chaos and rage, of mind-games and temper tantrums, of control and manipulation.

That light at the end of the tunnel leads to LIFE and life more abundant...

That light at the end of the tunnel is God shining His ever present spotlight to lead you out.

Dear lost ones, every GOOD and WONDERFUL thing awaits your escape...

I would not seek to lead you astray in thinking it easy, not one little bit. It will take every last ounce of courage you possess, each and every last bit of faith and trust waiting in the wings to take that fateful step out and away.

Worth every second of doubt and fear...

Worth every moment of unsurety and uneasiness...

Fear will tell us to stay, that danger awaits our exodus...

Fear LIES!

'Everything we want is on the other side of fear.' (George Addair)

Everything...

Seek His face my friends, for surely therein lies our salvation...not just of heaven but on earth.

He only awaits your choice, for no matter your belief or thoughts, there He is with you, always.

Bringing comfort, bringing courage and grace under fire, bringing peace even in turbulent waters.

Dear friends... God be with you and make His face to shine upon you wherever you may be today.

'O LORD, You have searched me

and known me.

You know when I sit and when I rise;

You understand my thoughts from afar.

You search out my path and my lying down;

You are aware of all my ways.

Even before a word is on my tongue,

You know all about it, O LORD.

You hem me in behind and before;

You have laid Your hand upon me.

Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,

too lofty for me to attain.

Where can I go to escape Your Spirit?

Where can I flee from Your presence?

If I ascend to the heavens, You are there;

if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.

If I rise on the wings of the dawn,

if I settle by the farthest sea,

even there Your hand will guide me;

Your right hand will hold me fast.

If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me,

and the light become night around me”—

even the darkness is not dark to You,

but the night shines like the day,

for darkness is as light to You.'

Psalm 139

Never alone...

Never forsaken...

Loved as we are, where we stand, sit, or crawl.