Find Yourself

The rare fortune cookie I opened tonight said something so simple but so profound...

“Turn your thoughts within – find yourself”

When I find Him

Sometimes I struggle to find you Lord.

I get on my knees and reach as far as I think I Possibly can for you within my most inner being.

It’s a needy feeling like when I have lost my car keys wondering and looking all over the house for them. I keep searching and finely there you are and behold I have found you o precious one.

I now reflect on another feeling like coming home from a long road trip and my little child sees my car pulling in the driveway. The pure joy I see on her face is also reflected in mine. Rushing towards one another we embrace and momentarily become one in the happiness and complete joy found in the unity of love for each other.

When I find Him, I experience His holy presence as it rushes into my presence. We have found each other in a special place that is difficult to describe with mere words.  But rather I find the mixing of the two to become one in the deepest love we have for one another.

Then it hits me… was I the one seeking Him in the first place or was it He that was seeking me?

Was He the one seeking me first is my question?

Was it you o precious Father that was saying here I am, I am here!

Yes son I am here and can be found right now.

Was it then at that moment I had a yearning to find Him as He called for me.

However it works it’s amazing that the two of us can enter into the oneness of each other. How the creator can perfectly mesh with the created in the vastness of time and space both in the physical and spiritual. He lifts me into His splendor, wonder and joy as He embraces me in our shared presence.

John 14:17 The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. NIV

"Be Thankful"

“Be Thankful” was written by a person with great wisdom and a different twist to it. Interestingly I find my mind a bit resistant to it and it does force me to think in other directions. I wanted to share this with you! God Bless your day!!!

Be thankful that you don't already have everything you desire. If you did, what would there be to look forward to?

Be thankful when you don't know something, for it gives you the opportunity to learn.

Be thankful for the difficult times. During those times you grow.

Be thankful for your limitations because they give you opportunities for improvement.

Be thankful for each new challenge, because it will build your strength and character.

Be thankful for your mistakes. They will teach you valuable lessons.

Be thankful when you're tired and weary, because it means you've made a difference.

It's easy to be thankful for the good things.

A life of rich fulfillment comes to those who are also thankful for the setbacks.

Gratitude can turn a negative into a positive.

Find a way to be thankful for your troubles, and they can become your blessings.

By Author Unknown

Transitioning from the Physical to the Spiritual

Sin basically is my separation from God within me. Separation basically occurs when I am living in my old nature disconnected from God. What is my goal once I begin to understand this? I must start the internal transition of letting go of the fallen self and accept by faith my new life found in the life of Christ. I am in the middle of the transitioning from the physical to the spiritual as I swing from my old disconnected self to the new life that I am living in the life of Christ within.  To live in the eternal moment in the life of Christ is my goal. To stay connected in the life He lives in me and not my old nature that is passing. So I am trying not to live in the past and can’t live the future now. In the moment I find the fullness and oneness I have in Christ Jesus eternal life within me. I try to live conected within Him. For the Father is the constant creator of the eternal moment and has asked me to join Him through and in the life of my savior Christ Jesus.

Philippians 3:12-14

12 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me.13 Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. NIV

Faith over Fear!

Faith is the opposite of fear…

The bedrock of fear is self absorption

The bedrock of faith is non self absorption and the reaching beyond one’s self

Fear is the empty echo of the self talking back to the self.

Faith is the launching pad from one’s self!

Fear is the place one cannot leave within the self.

Faith is the contact point unto God!

Faith over fear is one of my anchor points!

Mark 5:36 "Don't be afraid. Just have faith." NLS

Where do I find God?

Where do I find God when I can’t seem to find Him?

I somehow have misplaced Him and feel empty and desperate for Him. Like a feeling a mother might have when her child is momentarily lost in a crowd. Sometimes trying to find God is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Is God really not near me? Has He abandoned me?        
Why can’t I find Him?

No I believe He is always near me… Rather it is God that is the haystack I am trying to sift through. He is so close that I can’t see Him. I seem to look right through Him not able to see how close He really is to me. He experiences each heart beat, each emotion I feel and             
each moment that I exist.

I am patiently shown by God that He is the beautiful river the runs through the valley floor or looking at me though the eyes of my newborn grandson. But even more interestingly He is found within my very being. He comforts and is found in me as He lives through all my sufferings, all my joys and the life that I am. All I really have to do to find Him is to be “still”. It is there in the stillness He moves and fills me with His ever present love. There He lets me know that He sees me for He is the precious one that is my perfect love story.

Deuteronomy 31:8 The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."  NIV

Just Share your Moment

How can we be our own self and live in God at the same time?

“Just share your moment and let Him live you too”

1 John 4:13 We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. NIV

Rest from Our Self

Finding and seeing the busyness of the mind is the breakthrough. It is when we step back and watch the minds activity we begin to understand its movements and wonderings. We can begin to rest from our self and our worries as we learn to be still as we live in the life of Christ within us.

Exodus 14:14 The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still." NIV

I Now Live in Him

I fall and I break within the emptiness of myself but am never abandoned

For He is greater than I and I now live in Him.

Psalms 73:26 My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is

the strength of my heart and my portion forever. NIV

God's Temple

My breakthrough is the understanding that God “LIVES” in me.

For I am more than this body, you see.  More than just one

thought strung to the next thought!

My revelation is knowing I “LIVE” in God ! For I am a mind, heart, sprit

and soul that lives in this moment in God!

1 Corinthians 3:16 Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple

and that God's Spirit lives in you? NIV.

Magnificent One

All of creation is generated from the power God produces within Himself. Our Father God relentlessly gives of His life so that we can exist. He is the magnificent one. He is our creator that calls us His children.

Romans 11:36 - From Him and through Him and to Him are all things.

To Him be the glory forever! Amen. NIV