This is freedom
Water.
White, foaming,
Terrifying, tumbling
Over hardest rock,
Breaking upon ancient stone altars.
Die to live
River.
Icy, clear,
Secretly slipping
Along crooked paths,
Gurgling around hardest hearts.
Live to move
Stone.
Granite, hard,
Quietly cracking
Beneath the living stream,
Changed by washing water
Moved to freedom
I love vulnerable and real posts, but like David’s, end up remembering God has our best interests at heart. This post is that post.
I quit trusting God a long time ago.
I didn’t do it intentionally, but distrust seemed to come in swiftly and pull me further and further under like quicksand.
I’d have these “end of my rope moments” where I would explode to God, telling him that if he didn’t come through or at least talk to me a little, I swore I was done. I’d finish my rant, hear nothing, sit in the silence, and feel a little less heavy but mostly defeated. Disappointment started setting in because “Oh my God no matter what I do, I can’t get His attention” and anger would set in because it seemed as if He knew I wasn’t going anywhere, but chose to remain silent anyway.
Where was the God who loved me furiously and would have bankrupted Heaven all over again just to walk through life with me? Not here. Sitting on…
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Curiosity Killed the Cat.
Thankfully I’m not a cat.
I can’t just read things. I automatically ponder. Why did a person write, does it apply to me, is this true, didn’t so-and-so say this too? I guess it’s because I’m curious.
For instance, I just read something Rick Joyner posted.
“Nothing happens for those who sit and dream. If we are to accomplish our purpose, we must learn how to start moving and then keep moving.” Rick Joyner
(Lucky you, you’re about to go on the thrilling roller-coaster ride, “PJ’s Brain.”)
So, I thought, that’s funny, didn’t I just have a chit chat with a friend about the difference between dreams and vision? Hmm… I need to stop sitting and… Keep moving forward… Disney said that. Let me look it up on Goodreads.com…
“Around here, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious…and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” Walt Disney
God said that too… Where is it, oh yeah…
…but one thing I do [it is my one aspiration]: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the [supreme and heavenly] prize to which God in Christ Jesus is calling us upward. (Philippians 3:13-14 AMP)
…Keep on asking and it will be given you; keep on seeking and you will find; keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you. (Matthew 7:7 AMP)
Curiosity? That’s not in the Bible. But I’m curious, what does the word mean. Well, hello dictionary.com app, I love you…
curious – kyoo r-ee-uh s
1. eager to learn or know; inquisitive.
Oh, nvm, the whole Word of God BEGS us to be curious. I just read that this morning in Psalm 119…
Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) …who seek, inquire for and of Him and crave Him with the whole heart. (Psalm 119:2 AMP)
And…
I am Your servant; give me understanding (discernment and comprehension), that I may know (discern and be familiar with the character of) Your testimonies. (Psalm 119:125 AMP)
And…
Your hands have made me, cunningly fashioned and established me; give me understanding, that I may learn Your commandments. (Psalm 119:73 AMP)
So yeah it’s all over the Word, curiosity rocks!
I hope this blog didn’t seem too tumultuary…
Word of the day
Tumultuary – adjective.
confused; disorderly; haphazard
I adore words. Big words, little words, words that sound like rocks…?! nvm
In the cool of the mornings I like to sit on my back deck and hang out with Jesus. Most of the time the sounds of the forest call out to me and share His love.
Intrigued by the sounds this morning, I tried to capture them in words. What was that crazy word that is a word that sounds like what it is?…. Oh yeah, the coolest word ever – onomatopoeia – tada!
Jumbo juicy raindrop – plop
Charming cherry cardinal – trill
Passive perching squirrel – chirrup
Whispering willow leaves – swish
Just to make sure I got that word right, I looked it up on the fount of all wisdom, the internet. The definition got me stuck in a thought.
Onomatopoeia means more than I expected: making or creating names. I remember reading a couple of stories about people who did just that.
On the other hand, words that sound like real-life sounds are called echomimetic. Those words are imitations or echos of sound.
You know, Christians are stuck in echomimetic mode. Yup, we copy the past, each other, the music, the experiences, the jargon… Face it we are copycats. Not much new going on here, kind of an echo of past glories without the original Glory.
But God is still in onomatopoeia mode. He calls those things that be not as if they are. He makes all things new. He created the world with creative words and gave Adam the commission to create names for all living things. He used creative methods for healing, delivering and teaching. Not once did He copy his previous method.
I want to live an onomatopoeia life. Start each project with fresh creative eyes, as if it had never been done before. Create an atmosphere of hope and love with my words. The only constant i need is Jesus.
Oh, BTW, did you know there is an onomatopoeia dictionary? Really, there is http://www.writtensound.com
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