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9:23 PM, Dec. 6, 2007
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Hello Friends,It has been an interesting couple of weeks since my last post. Thank you to everyone who left such caring and blessed messages... I appreciate each of you dearly. Update: Mom & Dad just rode out the NW Pacific Storms, with winds over 120MPH hammering the region. Trees (massive trees) fell like matchsticks, hills gave way to mud and rocks. The rivers flooded above their banks. They were right in the middle of it all!! 4 days passed, while I trusted the Lord to take care of them... their phones were down - their road closed @ mile marker #4 - they love at # 8... isolated. Thankfully they had a generator, neighbors came out and helped one another... and today I finally got the news, they are safe. The only material loss... my dad's prized dock. They are safe now, the waters have receded and hospice has been able to navigate the mud encased roads. My dad is worn out - taking care of my mom is taking it's toll. I cannot imagine how hard it must be for this man... he is learning at the age of 72 to do the laundry, wash the dishes, cook meals... and take care of my ailing mother.... all through blind eyes. Seems the cancer has moved to moms brain, as she has days where she is incoherent, babbling like a toddler other days she seems fine. Today I got to chat with her... not talk, chat. Just a hello, I love you and encouragement. Nothing else matters. No need to talk about politics or the latest news. No need to bring up the past. Just hello - I love you... Amazing how things have changed How I have changed. A few months ago when I traveled to Oregon to see my family, something happened... something I have been trying to find a way to put into words... but am battling to find them... Reconciliation happened. It's astounding how easy it was. There was no hashing it out. No need to discuss it. No need to be right. No needing to listen to both sides. No technique. No fair fighting. No need to interpret the others love language. None of that mattered. Not when True Love prevailed. Two commandments Jesus gave. Love God first. With all your heart soul and mind. Love thy neighbor as thyself. I have had a rare opportunity to see these commandments work. I went to God, purely in love. I emptied out everything of me and gave it all to Him. What did He do? Gave it back. 100 fold. Then - and only then - was I able to love again. I did not need answers or explanations or apologies. I only wanted to give the love away. In this day that we live, it sounds almost cliche' to try to live out these commandments... but it is possible. When we make the decision to do so. Now I understand, what I thought was a 'burden of justice' was an empty place that only love could fill. Only God's love. I find myself some days wanting to stay prostrate in worship, not wanting to move out of the heavenly place back into the world... because nothing matters when I am wrapped in the love of God. I still walk this earth seeing through these human eyes, feeling within the confines of this human body... knowing I will face trials and tribulations, with which, there will be no answers that make sense to this human brain...but deep within, my soul soars, singing praises, fully aware of the knowledge that He that is in me - is Greater than he that is in the world. He brings, peace, hope and utter joy!! TobyMac says it well: I was made to love you I was made to find you I was made just for you Made to adore you I was made to love And be loved by you You were here before me You were waiting on me And you said you'd keep me Never would you leave me I was made to love and be loved by you... Thank you Lord, for all your love!! Leave a Comment { Last Page } { Page 20 of 139 } { Next Page } |
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