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One Love
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| Posted 1/24/2007 8:16 AM (GMT -6) |   | Hey, y'all.
Just wanted to share some things again.
I've never had so much love and beauty invade my life before.
God's reality is like a drug...a beautiful addiction.
The more of God that you perceive, the more that you want to perceive.
Even suffering is a joy!
To know that God can morph our suffering into beauty brings wonder to my mind and reverence to my heart!
I love the Lord Jesus SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much!
I love the Beloved Spirit of God SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much!
I love the Father of Lights SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much!
But there's a burden.
A burden that's more and more pressing every day.
I want to go home.
I REALLY want to go home.
I see that we were all MEANT to be unified with our Ground and Lord.
We were meant to live as ONE with God.
Forever and ever.
But this world is bathed in craziness.
By and large, this world is BENT upon not hearing God's voice.
Or denying that it CAN be heard.
And as a result, someone who says that it IS POSSIBLE to hear God all the time...
...is regarded as OVERZEALOUS or CRAZY.
(I've been told that I'm CRAZY for not getting angry anymore...if you can believe that.)
And I'm growing weary thought of as crazy...for living in love.
And Kierkegaard was RIGHT about the "telelogical suspension of the ethical"
Damn, he was right!
I knew that the "world" was antagonistic to the Father...
But I didn't know HOW DEEP it actually GETS!!!
I thought that the whole POINT of "church" was to get individuals and collectives to the point where ALL the sheep would hear the Shepherd's voice at all times.
To be beings who would live 1 Cor 13 in the continuous NON-STOPPING power of the Spirit.
Not just trying to do "ministry"
Perhaps I was wrong about that.
Don't get me wrong.
I LOVE my brothers and sisters in New Humanity.
We are ALL contingent expressions of the Loving, Rational, Free Triune God.
And there is undeniable beauty and wonder in EACH being that I see.
And I want to do everything God allows me to do to bring love to everyone that I see.
My growing love for right-relatedness and beauty compels me to prayer and sharing mad love.
But...
I'm growing tired.
I want to REST in the arms of my Love.
I want to spend every moment just making worshipful love with my God.
I want to dance in His wisdom, to bask in his energies.
I want to share wordless conversation with my Lord and weep tears of joy in his Presence.
And I am growing weary of this world.
I want to walk away like Enoch.
Or be taken away like Elijah.
I want to leave all of this craziness behind.
I want to go HOME to be with God unimpeded!
But God speaks so clearly to me...
So clearly...
So understanding...
So lovingly challenging...
My time will come soon enough.
I will have my eternal rest with Him soon enough.
But for right now, God has a MISSION for me (and others!) here.
A Mission of PERFECT LOVE
It is the people who REJECT love who need it the most!
It is the people who think it's CRAZY to eliminate anger who NEED a presence of PEACE.
God wants to have submitted people who will INCARNATE God's presence 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
God wants for people to become His FREE SLAVES.
That is, people who CHOOSE to ONLY do what God wants them to do at any given moment in time.
That's what's needed for this world.
And there will be mad suffering on different levels.
But that's ok.
There is good company in suffering and misunderstanding for God's sake. (The Cloud of Witnesses)
As I think of the multitudes of God's people who have suffered unto mutilation and death...
I know that I have not suffered unto the threat of death.
I have yet much to do before I will get the Crown of Thorns that's waiting for me.
And God will continue preparing me. (I'm still a baby he's trying to mature...)
He has promised that He will never leave ANY OF US...that he would be with us to the end.
And that includes me.
And as long as I know that...I can bear this.
Jesus bore this craziness.
And He is in my heart helping me by the craziness in my own life.
"I can do ALL THINGS through Christ who strengthens me."
And so, I am comforted.
If anyone under the "sound" of my "voice" feels in ANY WAY the same as this alien being does...
please be comforted as well.
Just hang on, my brother.
Just hang on, my sister.
The Lord Jesus is IN us and WITH us!
We may feel alone sometimes...but that is an illusion.
We are NEVER alone.
And whatever pain, suffering, or craziness you are enduring...
Jesus will give you the grace to overcome and endure.
He PROMISED.
We will go home soon enough.
We will be at total rest soon enough.
There is a MISSION at hand!
A MISSION that requires us to hold fast to God's unchanging hands.
A MISSION that requires us to give up EVERYTHING and be willing to having NOTHING BUT GOD!
A MISSION where we may give ourselves for people who JUDGE, MISUNDERSTAND, and possibly even HATE US.
A MISSION OF PERFECT LOVE
Take heart, my fellow life-travelers.
God smiles upon us joyously...everyday.
And with that, we can continue.
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Lord, let your light so shine within us...
that we cannot claim any credit for the bright countenances of the people that we reflect your light to.
Lord, break us.
Lord, mold us.
Lord, strengthen us.
Lord, MOVE US to live your decrees by your Spirit.
Lord, we commit EVERYTHING to you.
Lord, come quickly.
Blessed be Your Name forever, Jesus.
"All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
Therefore (YOU) go and introduce all peoples into the Way, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and intstructing them in following everything I have commanded you. (Great Commandments!)
And surely I am with you always, even to the very end of the age."
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One Love
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| Posted 1/24/2007 8:26 AM (GMT -6) | | God WANTS us to communicate with Him ALL THE TIME!
Look at one of Akiane's Pictures...
It's called "Co-Creating", AGE 11
www.artakiane.com/paintings/age_11/age11_01.htm
Her words...
Right after my eleventh birthday I visualized my self portrait through the view of a canvas and through the eyes of the spirit. I hoped to express the joy of co-creating, and the awe of feeling
God's love and wisdom.
Next...
Divine Knowledge, AGE 11
www.artakiane.com/paintings/age_11/age11_17.htm
Her words...
This painting was particularly hard for me, because I have changed it so many times and ended up using two models and two completely different backgrounds. It took me a few months to paint its full meaning and another five months of prayer to fully understand it.
This is the painting about search for divine knowledge.
The young sculptor represents our civilization mostly ruled by the male. His youth shows that our civilization is still immature. The sculptor is chiseling a huge heap of coal in order to find the diamond representing divine knowledge.
The sculptor ignores the pain, strain, hardship and temptation of everything surrounding him. All he focuses on is on finding this particular diamond, and he knows that if he chisels long enough through the black coal layers, representing human knowledge, he will finally see the diamond of divine knowledge.
In the background of a cave the contrast of ice and hot rocks represent the world of contrasts we live in.
The melted ice that formed a narrow stream flowing through, symbolizes humanity’s thirst for knowledge that can be quenched only by God’s light.
THIS is the product of a person who LISTENS to God often!
Help us LEARN from this alien child, my Jesus.
"All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Me.
Therefore (YOU) go and introduce all peoples into the Way, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and intstructing them in following everything I have commanded you. (Great Commandments!)
And surely I am with you always, even to the very end of the age."
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Starkman
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| Posted 1/24/2007 9:47 AM (GMT -6) | | Ok,
Stop, everybody!
You mean, this chick is...eleven years old? That's it? THAT'S IT?
Nah! This has to be a ... eleven?
Next to--who was it, Beetoven or Motzart, I think, who at the ripe old age of six was playing the organ and composing--I haven't seen anything like this.
What the...
"Selected as 1 of 20 most accomplished visual artists in the world by Tribute Entertainment (London) and ABI (United States)."
Um...pardon me, I think I have to faint and then have a few stiff drinks and go into deep depression and think about TGB's words about all this theoligizing and... I just give up. This is just way too much for me to comprehend.
Starkman
WAIT!
Then "Oprah" has to step in with this quote to the girl: "I love your self portrait...You obviously are gifted."
Thank heavens for the Oprahs of the world to bring us back to reality (you OBVIOUSLY are gifted?)! What a remarkable truth, Oprah. I'm...I'm more overwhelmed by your intuitive thought-out analysis of this girls "gifted" abilities, that I can't speak!
I'm ok now.
My teacher used to say that whenever he read Scripture, he would always ask the question, "What does this have to say about the character of God?" Working off his thinking, as I read Scripture, I have come to ask, "What does this have to say about the heart and passion of God's desire for relationship with us?Post Edited (Starkman) : 1/24/2007 8:50:09 AM (GMT-6) | | Back to Top | | |
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Starkman
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| Posted 1/24/2007 9:54 AM (GMT -6) | | No, I'm not done.
I sit here looking (more like stunned-gazing) at this girl's work. I'm crying, I'm laughing, I'm speechless, I'm just plain lost. It's almost as if this is too much for planet earth, too far beyond who and what we are, and that we're being reminded that love and life are not only far more than what most of us realize they are, but that we can't even come close to what they can be in our lives...until someone like this little girl paints. Suddenly, love and life are more real, more tangible, more true than ever before.
Starkman
My teacher used to say that whenever he read Scripture, he would always ask the question, "What does this have to say about the character of God?" Working off his thinking, as I read Scripture, I have come to ask, "What does this have to say about the heart and passion of God's desire for relationship with us? | | Back to Top | | |
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Starkman
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| Posted 1/24/2007 10:11 AM (GMT -6) | | The Black Woman in Red...the expression, color and image are beyond words.
You know, here God steps in to our game for just a moment (this girl's life), leaving just traces of His beauty, and I'm unable to comprehend what's really going on here. All I know is that something way beyond my understanding--way beyond this earth's understanding--is soaking this planet wet with His presence.
This girl doesn't have just a gift; she has a fragrance of the living God speaking to this world. A fragrance stronger in tone, color and light than many of the beautiful things on this planet. It's as if God has sneaked in and said, "When you think you've seen it all, just look at this little girl's paintings and poetry."
I don't care much for life, to tell you the truth. I really can't wait until it's all over. But when I see this girl's website, I realize that I live with the most wonderful opportunity to share life and love, not just with my wife or others around me, but with God Himself. I think that's what those Beetovens, Motzarts and Akaines are all about...reminding us, when we forget, that the eye has not seen, the ear has not heard and the neither has it entered into the heart of man the things God has prepared for us.
Starkman
My teacher used to say that whenever he read Scripture, he would always ask the question, "What does this have to say about the character of God?" Working off his thinking, as I read Scripture, I have come to ask, "What does this have to say about the heart and passion of God's desire for relationship with us? | | Back to Top | | |
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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 1/24/2007 5:35 PM (GMT -6) | | | r
Albrecht Dürer
Self-Portrait at the Age of Thirteen
drawing, 1484
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