Rising with the sun

Serving to the end

Passionately restored

First to see

Know

And believe

Witnessing to the world

So that I

You

Might too know

And believe

Christ has Risen

Dare to enter the tomb

See

Feel

And know for yourself

Alleluia alleluia

Christ is risen

Wondering how to be Graced?

Believe

Receive

Open your heart as wide as your arms

this past week while treating a Syrian Refugee family in my dental practice, I re learned the value of community.  Essentially there is little to no money to properly meet their dental needs which are immediate, acute and chronic.  I was attempting to treat all their needs myself, but I found myself in over my head.  I called an oral surgeon, and an endodontist (root canal specialist) and they agreed to see them and treat them for free, because I was.  I since learned that 2 other dentists in my community are treating other Syrian refugee families for nothing because I was and because as I see it, it is simply the right thing to do!

 

Darkness is the absence of light

Evil is the absence of good

There are times

When the Light

Is clouded by

Stresses of our own making

Clouded thoughts

Obscure the Light

stumbling

Trying to create an artificial light

That mimics

But it neither illumines

Nor guides

But slides into

Independent

Self-aggrandizement

I need no one

…. Easier, faster, I’ll just do it myself

Alluring truth

often

Self martyrdom

Perhaps is the

Fear of truly being known

Fear of disappointment

Fear of facing the darkness that lies within

In Christ

Is community

Self is laid down

Weaknesses held by each other

Vulnerable

Interdependent

Needing each other

In Christ

With God

The Spirit unites

There we can be bound together

And The Light

Illumines our path

God in the silence

Speaks

In moments

Of stretching alone-ness

And pain-filled despair

When life crushes in

And hope seems impossibly far away

God’s words cannot be heard

Only felt

Calling

Us to speak of the pain that threatens

And then to sit in the silence

Letting your mind roam through the dark corners of soul

And there you will find

God

Singing Love softly

The arced sapling

Invites me

Into the woods

Where I AM

Speaks

Through the peace-filled silence of the fresh falling snow

And the companion singing of the white throated sparrow

Through the majesty of life giving maples

And the song of the wind in the poplars

Here

I AM

Speaks

Of the mystery of heaven’s kiss

In the language of  Love

And I AM

Knows

And is known

In us

Beyond words

• 
• God takes us down dark paths, because God is light
• Burning Bush,
• Who are you?
• When land-fills over flow
• And our oceans die
• We are at our own ruin
• Where are you God?
• Why do you not intervene when nations slaughter nations
• And the innocent suffer
• Suffer beyond our imagination
• Where are you?
• We do not listen
• We over speak to you
• Babbling on
• We over flow with our own ideas
• Babbling on and on to you, O God
• Instead of emptying
• And seeking to be filled by you, God
• our wants and
• petty needs occupy our minds
• If we stood before the bush
• Would we stand in awe
• Would we fall prostrate
• Would we explain our status attempting to justify our lives
• Would we weep for our lacking
• Would we weep for the slothful destruction of our humanity
• Would we be different
• We simply do not look for the enflamed speaking bush
• For God is present and calling
• In Peace and Justice and
• Love and Hope
• After The dark night of the soul , Light comes
• And the burning bush does not consume
• But Spurs us into active silence
• Emptying of self
• And prostrate filling
• Of wisdom
• Come lord Jesus, come
• In your presence, we are forever changed
• Re-member your people
• Come Lord Jesus, Come

And no wonder; for Satan himself  masquerades as an angel of light. 2nd Cor 11:14

Are there Angels in our midst?

Angels from the realms of glory

Angels we have heard on high

We have?

Have I?

are they “watchin” over me?

the day

That mingles between

Sunshine and overcast

Are these moments of metaphors for God’s Angels of Light and the cloud of evil that exists in our world?

Pushed and pondering

I see

With the eyes of my heart

Angels of Mercy

Keeping me at this present moment

Angels of Grace

Smudging my faults

Angels of Hope

Inspiring new creative ideas

Keeping me from despair, that,

All is not lost for our planet

With the eyes of my mind

I see the angel of greed

Luring me to think of myself first

Temping me with shiny packages

Of slothful wastefulness

Looking in

Looking out

I see the warring Angels of Light and Dark

I plead

God …. Help

Help

And

The transcended peace

Emerges

Unexpectedly

And I know

God’s Angels

Watch over

   Even me

God’s promise to Jacob (gen 28:15) , I am with you and will keep you where ever

you go bringing you back to this land …. I will not leave you…

Tumbles in my mind

God says

Meet Grace

She comes freely

You see her

If you chose to look

She enables as you

weep with those who mourn

Give to those in need

Cry out for the voiceless

God says

Meet Grace

She surprises

With moments

Of wonder

At all we take for granted

Swelling the heart

With gratitude

Because of Grace

We can kneel

And

Confess our sinfulness

While be flooded with

Love

God is Love

And Love

Gives us Grace

Freely

So

Chose to look for Her

You have already met

Reach out

Reach in

She is longing to sit with you

So pause this day

Be with Grace

And be flooded with

Love and

Gratitude

For the simple, the mundane, and the extra ordinary!

Eve knew

Putting myself at the center

In God’s creation

Means a death

Honouring

All life

From the creepy-crawly to the majestic wind that causes trees to tremble

Humbles me

There I offer

The praises that

Create the very throne of God

Where Grace freely flows

Weaving herself

In and out of every moment

Pausing

Bowing

In humility

See God

In the center of this garden

Then

Love

Can be