O Lord, the house of my soul is too small for You
to enter:
make it more spacious by Your coming.
~St. Augustine
"In biblical Hebrew, the letters yodh and shin combine to form a root that connotes “space and the freedom and security which is gained by the removal of constriction.” From this YS root come words like yesha and yeshuah, referring to salvation. When you think about it, it makes sense that space would be intimately associated with salvation. Space is freedom: freedom from confinement, from preoccupation, from oppression, from drivenness, and from all the other interior and exterior forces that bind and restrict our spirits. We need space in the first place simply to recognize how compelled and bound we are. Then we need space to allow the compulsions to ease and the bonds to loosen. In the Hebrew sense, our passion needs elbowroom. To the extent that space is permitted by grace and our own willingness, we discover expanding emptiness in which consecration can happen, room for love to make its home in us. (The Awakened Heart by Gerald G. May) "Day 1 (August 10, 2014) Ps18: 16-19 "Spaciousness is always a beginning, a possibility, a potential, a capacity for birth. Space exists not in order to be filled but to create. In space, to the extent we can bear the truth of the way things are, we find the ever-beginning presence of Love. Take the time, then; make the space. Seek it wherever you can find it, do it however you can. The manner does not matter, and the experience you have there is of secondary importance. Seek the Truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the Real, not the easy. (The Awakened Heart by Gerald G. May) Day 2 (Friday in book: John 8:31-38) |
"... *Space is freedom: freedom from confinement, from preoccupation, from oppression, from driven- ness, and from all the other interior and exterior forces that bind and restrict our spirits." |
SPACE
because we never know what
God
might be saying through each One Word
to our personal life application
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BTW
the first linked song
is not intended truthfully
as a real LOVE STORY between us
yet it does intertwine a complicated almost
50 years (& 55 of knowing each other)
with how God's Story of LOVE
makes or changes ALL for our good
as best He can, in spite of us,
while we press on in our life journeys
with our own right & wrong choices or decisions
... BUT GOD ...
He keeps working on each of us and
He will turn it around for His Glory somehow
if we remain close to Him & His Word as we
"SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM of GOD..."
just because the Almighty God
gives us freewill to choose
yet He still chooses us
and made a way
through His Son
Jesus Christ
then
gives us the freedom
-SPACE-
and plenty of TIME to make
all things beautiful
in the seasons
of our lives
to come
to
Him
for
eternity
and in-between
there are many encounters
and opportunities made available;
wonderful experiences & people
to interact with & share
the message of the
Gospel, the Good News.
We each can speak
LIFE
into someone else's life for eternity
like the Holy Spirit does
ever so gently & a constant prompt
(not by force or law)
yet through actions & words of
LOVE that BLESS
in those
SPACES
in-between
by Linda Ellis
Oh, my! Such beautiful thoughts and ponderings…the Spirit truly comforts and heals🙏🏻
ReplyDeleteThank you Karen so much! I'm so sorry that it took me this long to get here to reply - not because I did not read it (in email) but because I have so many "tabs" opened on all the other necessary matters that I totally have not gotten over to my actual blog. These thoughts & ponderings were hard to write publicly without clearly stating so much other details, but I hope you were able to read between the lines. I so agree that indeed the Spirit does comfort and continues the healing process (even after death - there is the ultimate healing). Meanwhile that - Dash and space is totally in God's hands because only He knows the heart completely. Praying that God receives even the stubborn ones. I have to believe that somewhere the Spirit convinced him of Jesus' part in his heart & God, the Father showed him His endless mercy, love & grace. Somehow, God is bigger than we can imagine (if we don't box Him in to our thinking) and our conception of praying a salvation prayer, etc. is beyond our finite grasp as God's infinite, awesome plan unites one man's heart to the truth & heart of Jesus Christ, in that mystery of the Trinity & eternal life. To release myself of this, was for me to surrender also to God's will (not theology nor doctrine). Love you and your beautiful spirit, heart, comfort & gift you are to me now & forever. Thank you so very much! {because we're "moving beyond suffering", right?}
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