Do you understand why I am writing about the Revelation and trying to explain it?

It is because, I, like you, wanted to understand what was going on around me. Having grown up I church I have heard every absurd teaching – some not so ridiculous, but I could not comprehend nor remember what they said; and, none of it made sense. My attempts at understanding the prophetic aspects of the bible, were, for years, like swimming in dirty water, the more you move about in it, the muddier it gets.

One day, many years ago, after my life collapsed around me, I had to move back in with the parents. I was walking back to my room after a shower and my father was watching Glenn Beck, when he was still on Fox news, he interviewed the author Joel Richardson. Joel was talking about his recent book, The…

“Harsh words can hit and stick like shrapnel in the mind. Tragically a victim might spend the better part of a lifetime trying to get the brain to unload it. Whoever thought up the saying, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me” ought to be drawn and quartered. Nothing could be further from reality. Unfair names and ugly words do harm us, and that harm can be permanent. We need to guard what we say about other people, especially our children and loved ones.” (Getting Through The Tough Stuff by Charles R. Swindoll, Page 27)

The above quote is spot on. It is something we really do need to realize. The power that is in the words we speak, the things that we say. They do effect others. They can do extreme damage to the heart and soul of a person.

Even when we…

*The unity of the faith*
Ephesians 4:13 KJV
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Sirs I write with great joy there is great power in unity Sirs many would think the church is divided but it is not Sirs it is not in words but in power charity is God and God is power and in God lies every other good thing. We are part of the body of God and if we be as such we ought not to live as though it is not. Sirs the wolves have come among the sheeps thus the tares among the wheat and thus has God allowed it to be that at the end he would separate by power the chaff from the wheat…

Having just celebrated Easter, I’ve been thinking a lot about Jesus’ last hours before the crucifixion.  A book I’m reading right now highlights how the Garden of Gethsemane is where Jesus’ humanity “gushes out.”  It is such a raw scene, painful. In light of Romans 5:12-21, I think it’d be useful and fruitful to compare the two most famous garden scenes of the bible: Gethsemane and Eden. The first Adam and the Last Adam (1 Corinthians 15:45). The begining of the curse and its end.

I’ve found that throughout life, different aspects of God’s nature leave you awestruck at different times.  And it’s usually simple truths you’ve known your whole Christian life but for some reason that you can’t articulate these truths all of a sudden hit you like an anvil falling from the third story in an old cartoon. For instance I’ve gone through a phase where his…

This made me chuckle!

“God is a marriage of love because everything, male and female as you consider it, resides in God, as well as in all true creation.”  COL bk.4, 1:IV

We are composed of love—through and through. We are living, many of us, in madness still, because the ego has not yet died in us. When the ego does die, we will know what it is to live in God. We will be part of “all true creation.”

What we have made of ourselves in this world is not “true creation,” for our mistakes have made us labor under extreme conditions of depravity. Never God’s intention, He “let go” when we rebelled (A Course of Love concept). What else could He do? We as parents even do this with our rebellious teenagers. Neither we, in God’s sight, nor teens, are yet mature—or we wouldn’t make such havoc for ourselves.

Let the love…

Hurt comes in many forms and at different times. At times it strikes one deeper that imaginable and mortifies one to the core. Mostly it is the ones we love the most that hurt us to such an extent, the ones we think we can’t live without, the ones we see the meaning of life though, those who see us through our deep and darkest hours.

It is those who hurt us that not only deserve our forgiveness, but an understanding of why we hurt as well. If we are true to ourselves, then we will acknowledge that we are neither perfect nor without fault. Furthermore; if we truly love, then forgiveness should come easily to us. The loved ones who hurt us, are also hurt by the pain they inflict.

If you have lived for even a day, you know that you are and any other person is likely…

My husband and I receive the same compliment when someone looks at a picture of us. It’s a compliment I am most proud of and I rejoice in it humbly. ”You both have the same big smile!” We both laugh and say thank you. I use to be so self conscious. Feelings of being critiqued imposed on my behavior. Nowadays, it takes so much energy to put into caring about what people think or feel about me. Ofcourse I would like to be well liked. If at all possible to live peacefully with everyone is a godly principle. Keys words are “if at all possible”. Sometimes it is just impossible, and I feel now that I am fine with that. The big lesson is that through it all to not allow people or situations to steal my joy or ruin my smile.

Beloved, exercise your right to release your cares…

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