God loves the children

Father God, 
you placed a young girl(7) in my path today, her story ripped my heart in pieces. so very beautiful and innocent in appearance, but nothing in her young mind is innocent. Sin in the world has already gotten to her.  As i looked at her, i heard you remind me how you love the children.  Even at her young age you are forming her testimony.  Please...open the doors for me to help her, or bring others around her. Oh how i pray that the things she has encountered is all that she will have to, and You will show yourself to her. Protect her. Bring adults in her life that will raise her in you.  praying that you are already moving in her heart, and that she will sleep in your shadow, dreaming the things that little girls should dream.  Your princess who is sure she just met her little sister in you

traveling thru Baca

Psalm 84:5-7
Blessed are those whose strength is in you,
who have set their hearts on pilgrimage.
As they pass through the Valley of Baca,
they make it a place of springs;
the autumn rains also cover it with pools.
They go from strength to strength,
til each appears before God in Zion.


The Valley of Baca, a desolate place, dry, sadness, weary...we go in and out of it as we continue to press on towards knowing and loving the LORD more.  Not to be confused with James 1 that tells us about being tossed around like a man with a divided heart.  We have a choice in the valley to draw closer to the LORD and allow HIM to shine through us. The most amazing thing about the valley is.....others are watching us as we go through our trials, and they can see Jesus in us, even when we don't.  


On our pilgrimage, when the valleys seems to about crush us, we need to remember to ask HIM "what do you want me to learn here?" and praise HIM through it.  No its not a normal worldly thing, but we are not at home here, we belong to heaven...a heart on pilgrimage headed and pressing hard..traveling to our final destination..HOME. Traveling from strength to strength..


Lord, thanks for bringing me back here to remember the lessons you taught me in this.  I have a heart set on pilgrimage, this world is going to be uncomfortable to me, and at times i won't fit in here. But Heaven is my home, i belong to heaven...having a focus on the eternal, home with you, where this all started and will end...to a life without end, without tears, without broken hearts, without death.  


I so needed this scripture, it seemed to pull it all together for me. your princess whose heart is set on pilgrimage

Letter to my Watchman

(blogged Bible Study is on hold, but will get back to it asap)


My Sacred Watchman,
I am humbled at the way you watch over me! Thank you. You reach much farther than my mind can comprehend. I don't know how things get so out of control, or how distance comes between us, but you are always faithful in keeping your eye on me, and never allowing me to get beyond your reach. No matter how far i get from you, You are there.


While reading through Isaiah the last couple of nights, i am forced to look at my own unfaithfulness to you. Thank you for rebuking and then reminding me of your unfailing love, your compassion that is for me. Losing hope, and forgetting what i am here for, is devastating to me and everyone i connect with.  Its hard at times to stay in the fellowship of believers when it always seems i don't measure up.  It really only matters what you think, and that i am walking in your shadow.  


I can't help but wonder..do your other children struggle the same or is it just me, and the Isrealites?  Really don't hear many fess up to being like them, just alot of people with lots of instruction, and coming across as perfect in you.  


I just want to be real..real in You, real in roles as parent, wife and employee.  I love that you have your eye on my, and that I am precious to you. You never let go, you are always faithful. You are my watchman, and i am your princess who definitely loses sight of her mission way too often.