Be Like This

This afternoon while waiting to finish up my shift I was sitting outside on the dock reading, thinking, and praying, in the midst of so many things swirling around in my heart, I happened to look into the back of my truck which was but inches away, when I heard my caring and loving Father speak to my heart.

“Son, be like this.” Immediately my mind kicked into gear thinking, what do you mean? I then sensed he was making a point to me right where I was, in my daily routine, “I want you to be like what you’re seeing here, “be empty” so that I might fill you afresh to over flowing with a greater understanding of my love.”

Somehow I knew intuitively that the different ones that were so set upon my heart with the intensity of their struggles, that their needs like my own could only be realized and met in a similar manner, a fresh knowing that in their emptiness, He would be their fullness!

Rich

Heavens Best Kept Secret

Knowing “Who’s we are,” is not attaining to some lofty spiritual level as much as it is the God purposed and inborn birth-right of those whom the Father has received unto Himself.
It is out of this regal presentation of Who’s we are, that an unrestricted unmeasured flow of power (virtue) invades the child of God, defining who they are which releases them to further cooperate with the divine teacher, the spirit of truth moving them from being His child and little by little becoming a fully matured son!

Our battle has never ever been with ‘flesh and blood’ but we need to be constantly reminded of that which we say we know.
I see this being especially crucial and relevant to those who have been lead out side of the religious (circus) camp.
It is incongruous to our thinking that not only have most if not all ‘leaders’ within organized religion been deceived by the father of lies (Satan) but also those who were addicted to them.
Could this be like the blind following the blind, I think so. It is vital and most sobering to clearly hear and take to heart what Jesus said regarding the religious Pharisees. He didn’t say, “Beware of the Pharisees, but of the leaven of the Pharisees.”
The religious indoctrination (brain washing) has been a regular and staple part of our institutional diet for as long as we have imbibed from the man made cisterns.

Do you honestly think for one second the father of lies ever wants the child of God to KNOW Who’s they are, hell NO! As long as that innate imprinting is ignored, we will be held captive to every whim and wind of doctrine that comes a blowing our way, keeping us in a perpetual state of infancy and addicted to the foster or surrogate people that will convince us that without them, we are in grave and serious danger.
The blinding that has kept so many of God’s children for so long in the prison house of the religious Matrix is slowly being invaded with the true knowledge of the one who calls Himself the I AM!
As this begins to register within the spirit of those who are His, its as if an inner damn is broken, and out of seeing and knowing Him as our only Life is released an unparalleled accelerated growth that catapults us into what we never dreamed possible!

Right now I see what is happening within the body of Christ being something like this illustration. Have you ever had your hand, arm, leg, or foot fall asleep, you know, somehow the flow of blood has been cut off and when you go to use it, its all limp and prickly having no strength to support you.
So what do you do, you begin to shake it and the life which is in the blood begins to invade that part of your anatomy that has fallen asleep and soon it regains its proper vitality and is of use to you.

I see this pointing to a much greater liberation within His body, which is you and me. He is bringing those ones to SEE and KNOW Who’s they are, and as that living surge of indestructible life begins to be quickened, imparted to them, they become so much more energized and begin to function according to their divine imprinting.
It is these living parts of the body that are realizing His life as their only Life that releases them to resonate with a vibrancy that stimulates those other parts of the body that have fallen asleep!

It never has been by might or power, but by His spirit, and yes He is waking His children up to what has been theirs from day one when He first received them.
Behold I show you a mystery, not all shall sleep, a mighty awakening is unfolding before our very eyes, an awakening unto Righteousness!

Rich

Hurt

Hurt and pain is something none of us are able to escape being born into this world.
Some of it is expressed in the poem my daughter shared with me.

Rich


Packs of geese are landing
in the pre-winter river -
flurried graded grey to black
and fluid silver flashes
of the reflected moon.
Crass calls and the ecstatic
anarchic wind of all wings
at once
garners no applause
even though
the magnificent uproar
drowns the sound
of all the town’s
despicable bipeds
tooting their own horns.
I stand watching - awkward,
lonely, lachrymose and obsessing
over recent sins
over truths such as the first plastic
ever made has not yet disintegrated
and all the world’s waste is
piling up somewhere out of sight
and how so many will never know
the fierce staggering degree
to which I love them. Oh well.
The geese will fly in the morning
I will see the v from my window
and hear the phantom voices.
I will begin the day longing
illogically for that height
and horizon.