A Bride in Waiting

Today, my day in Him, I continue to wait with much excitement as I flutter in passion.  For my wait is of depth that comes from a place within, like a light in darkness… it controls the atmosphere for darkness cannot stay.   What a tremendous smile of hope for tomorrow as well as a perfect place to dance today.  For I am a bride in waiting!  A bride pampered for the feast of all celebrations.  A bride with whom the Holy Spirit is Walking through the Grace of Beauty for the union of my eternity with my Groom.  I giggle as I speak of my love so enormous.  I pull back into the memories of so many wonderful times I have had in the Courtship of my Beloved.  The first time I met Him as a child so young I still see vividly in position as He Tenderly Comes into my Life with His Arms so Wide.  His Touch Melted all resistance of a strong will and I have never been the same.  For even as a child I needed the Completeness He would make in my little world.  As our life continued together, I found it of such interest, all the places and things my Beloved was.  He traveled like no other.  He saw and loved like no other.  He came with a Heart so Extravagant that it changes every soul that dares to Touch Him.  His Feet Walked the very ground of the earth and yet He was of the Kingship not of this earth.  He was of such Royalty that all creation was at His Call yet He wanted me and came to Choose me with His Gift of Life.  His Feet took Him place after place to Give Truth and Prepare my ears to hear so I could accept His Love.  He Knew I would need His Continence Leading to Waters of His Compassion so He Traveled, His Feet so tired and weary, in Obedience to His Heart.  No territory was too mighty or small for His Feet to Trod, for I was Posted by my Father on His Heart as a Reward, a bride that would ache, covet, dream of His Return and wait.  So I do so with yearning of heart so full and ever growing of the knowledge of His Name as I Kiss His Feet with my love’s passion.  For the Steps He made for me to the final Walk that Sealed our engagement with eternal Life took Him up that hill of surrender.  Oh yes, a thousand times yes, I kiss the Feet of One I love, for His Love has embraced me with Love in Extreme to overwhelm me.  I wait with joy…!

Take Me To Your House, Oh God

Take me to Your House, my LORD,

Take me to Your Heart,

The Sound of a New Song. 

Melody of each Word,

Harmony of my heart. 

Take me to Your House, my God. 

Let me step into the heavens

On each Word of Light

Sprang upon the darkness of my soul. 

Give the Lift of Weightlessness

To the stony heart so heavy. 

Show me thousands of Carriers

Who Stand before my fight. 

As the crumble of my thoughts fall,

Reach for each thought

As if they were tears

And gather them to Hold me Near

As I watch Your Love Appear. 

Let me hear the Voice

That Lullaby’s my anxiety

To smiles and dreams of Love exchanged. 

Where Cherry Trees are in Blossom

My choice to pick which one.

For the Fruit of Your Beauty

Has Deep Root within my heart,

Reviving the weariest of troubled times

Causing me to be Lost in Your Love. 

Come now and Cover me

In Music that Eases the spirit

Listen to my passion

See the signs of my heart. 

For I wait now,

I wait in my garment of praise. 

I wait

For Your Voice of Comfort. 

I wait

For the Melody of each Word

I give harmony of my heart.

The Garment of His Love

In a mountain of uneven steps to climb, my God of all height and depth, I find Your Sure Footing as You Direct my course, my vision, upward and Give Strong Courage to keep climbing.  Pouring Hope into thoughts that are Alive because Your Love has been Placed around me to gird with Safety Equipment that Assures me against failure in my falls.  I have every Promise of Safety about me starting from the very shoes you Place on my feet.  Causing me to continue the climb as I chip into the mountain and make my next step upward that does not disappointment me, oh no, but increases my Joy as the Step gives amazing sight to the Equipment Created for Your Face to Shine.  I love the Garments of Your Love.  Designed for the task before us to extreme Detail to Reflect who You are.  We are loaded with Your Beauty because Your Desire is to bring us Closer to the Knowledge of Something so Outrageous; a top the Mountain, Your Outrageous Love.  Your Glance I see and I have over and over Love at First Sight, stricken now with an inability to conceal my own helpless heart to do anything but smile back.  Powerless to resist as the Climb reaches success, Your Love Carry’s me to the Chambers of Your Embrace.  I am a slave to Your Passion.  The mountain that was so steep and unlevel becomes solid flat ground as Love now Carries.  Your Love has taken its Place in the center of my heart and I am dancing.  For I now dance with Your Son, Jesus, whom You Gave to be the Friend, the Groom of those who love Him.  As my eyes sought You out, my Father, I behold the Gift that Outrageous Love Sent and I am engulfed in His Way that keeps calling my name.  Bringing me the Roses of Sweet Romance that catches every emotion in my being.  My own love swells as I stare at its Beauty.  Caught by the Banner of this Love over me just as I am, I marvel.  Where and why is fear holding its place like it was invited?  I am my Beloved’s and He is mine.  I ignore fear as Love’s Light allows no room for its existence.  A thousand angels come to watch the Union of Total Surrender.  The Songs of the Wedding Rise as the Banquet Table is set and the Wine of Intoxicating Love fills the heavens.  The bride is made spotless by the Way of the Father’s Outrageous Love.  Expand our hearts to receive as we, the bride, surrender to the Gift of Jesus Christ. 

Revelation 22:17 (Message Bible)
The [Holy] Spirit and the bride (the church, the true Christians) say, Come! And let him who is listening say, Come! And let everyone come who is thirsty [who is painfully conscious of his need of those things by which the soul is refreshed, supported, and strengthened]; and whoever [earnestly] desires to do it, let him come, take, appropriate, and drink the water of Life without cost.

Come Take Your Place in the Center of My Heart

Good morning my God and all of Your Creation so Beautiful.  Thank You Most Precious God for awakening me this morning.  Please come and take Your Place in the center of my heart today as I ponder Your Love all around me.  

I read this morning a blog that has enriched my thoughts with such Joy. 

She wrote: I get busy here in this world and all of a sudden my soul aches. I feel like I need to reconnect with You. Only you will do Lord. I feel like I'm away from home and I start to feel homesick.

I am a stranger in the earth; ~ Psalm 119:19. Of course I miss You.

Written at http://encourageandedify.blogspot.com/2010/12/i-miss-you-today.html

My heart encountered a beautiful song this a.m., Savior, Please; by Josh Wilson. The words are such a deep prayer asking the Savior to please, keep saving me. His need for God to hold on to him as he is just not strong enough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=002Q4gBUsy8

Last night my mother told me so kindly, ‘Got to just keep trusting God’.  I hold even today to the passion of her heart so full.

Your Love, my Savior, is my fortress and my shield.  I am safe…!

Psalms 48:3 (NIV Bible)

God is in her citadels; he has shown himself to be her fortress.

Then There Is A Voice and a Stop of Motion

I don’t know how, I don’t know what, I don’t know when but I know that Your Source is the Healing of my mind day and night.   Undistracted Devotion will Carry me for the world holds pains I cannot bear.  Their words and their cry’s give me the uneasiness of failures and most of those feel as if this one will consume me beyond repair.  Your Hope for me is total surrender and I know it is the salvation of making the wrong Right.  You are the Creator, my God… YOU are the Creator.  Is there a Creation that can take me to this Place?  Is there a trial or funnel that will cause me to fall into this surrender that Saves me.  My flesh screams but this takes me nowhere.  My mind is loud and its demands trip me into confusion.  I sing of my want of You yet the Walk gives me knowledge that I am crippled and unable to go.  Where is the bottom so that I can run to it for then my eyes will know there is nothing but You to Save.  I taste a bit of bitterness and spit out the very Wish of Your Kindness. And then it happens…I fall forward and find my life in Your Love that Gathers the Wind of Your Spirit to touch my face and my hair tumbles in its lift as I circle to experience the Life of Your Breath Blowing so Softly to Caress my heart.  The sky opens and the Glorious falls as I accept Your Kiss of Passion one finds only seldom in a lifetime.  Lost now in this garden of Your Love I sink deep into its Rich Soil and I find the Roots of Strength as I remain crippled with unknown solutions.  Looking to all sides I realize I am no longer my own, no longer alone.  No longer must I make the decision that made me fall but I can sit Here to Rest and You will Close my eyes to dismay.  You and me Here alone and only Love Speaking.  I dare not get up.  I dare not ask.  But I dare to wonder in this Garden for its Beauty has Captured my attention so strong that all I can think of is that I want to be here forever.  I would rather be here and its door keeper than to exit to any other place.  Abiding Here as Creation is Formed in me.  Abiding Here as the Wind Blows and Gives Air to my lungs.  I am so satisfied that my thoughts make a question, ‘how do I stay with You forever in this Love Burning?’  And its answer comes as I see a Walk I did not walk, a Love I did not begin, a House I did not build, a Fire I did not start.  I see a Blaze and He Sits upon a White Horse that Rides the heavens.  One that Conquered a place I never saw.  Its Brightness so Brilliant my eyes cannot look.  One all heavens and earth call Jesus.  Power and Mighty is His Fire.  I watch as the Waves of the Flames Push and consume Ownership of all space.  I crumble as His Eyes Pierce my soul.  Then there is a Voice and a Stop of Motion.  Love Speaks to me from inside first which penetrates throughout my being to escape every pore of my body so that I am now a part of a huge Fire.  His Flame of Fire Torched my heart and I became a furnace fueled by His Substance.  More, we cry… MORE, we plead.  Do not WAIT, my God.  Live in me and Burn with Your Love…!

I Didn't Know I Was Loved

Father that Comforts and Gives as if I were Your only child, Eyes focused on me today as Your Goodness was assigned to follow me, Watch me, Bring me the Best of Your Favors.  Protecting me with the many guards of Your angels assigned to see me through each day as Your Work and Love works in me.  I stand in Your Kingdom as the Seal of Your Song is upon me.  I sang a Song this morning that awakened a new place and awareness of Love.  I sang as my eyes were closed and my whole being was captured in the moment of Your Sweetness a simple thought but one that reaches the heavens with Power.  “I didn’t know I was Loved, I was Loved…. I didn’t know I was Loved, I was Loved… I didn’t know I was Loved, I was Loved.”  Over and over sang the life of my spirit within as I carried this thought to my emotions of wonder.   For I travel about here and there with lightness of a child.  I climb my mountains with the safety of Your Rope around me.  I swim the oceans with assurance that Your Life Boat Floats beside me.  And then I am awakened, I am caught by the Glimpse of Your Eyes and I stumble in awe.  I walk with two left feet and run with double jointed limps.  And again, I see Your Face and I suddenly take note that I am Loved, as a child, young as I make unwise moves and with full force set out to see to my own attempts at pleasures.  And I am stopped; I am quickened as the Words of Life set up Shields and Road Blocks that keep me from falling off the cliff of wrong pursuits.  I see Your Hand Reaching as I continue to learn to walk and feel the Love catch me at each step.  I am Loved.  I didn’t know I was Loved, I was Loved… I didn’t know I was Loved.   I sing today of what You are and how You Give for You Formed me and then Gave me the Life of Your Son for each breath that I take to sustain me as I swim my oceans and climb my mountains.  Your Eyes are beautiful and Your Hands are soft.  Your Face has Brilliance that the stars reflect.  In all I see, I awake afresh for I didn’t know I was Loved, I was Loved… I didn’t know I was Loved, I was Loved…!