Love found a way

 You trusted God to write the story

Despite the pain, the yearning and groaning

Knowing He had the wisdom and plan

This journey unexpected, taken by surprise

Authored by the Master of 'Suddenly'

And found bone of your bone and flesh of your flesh

Found a love that crosses oceans

Not of fairy tales & honeymoon phases

But orchestrated before the beginning of time

A piece of paradise redeemed

Bask in the glory beyond compare

Shoulder to shoulder

Face to face

Hand in hand

Blow the Ruach into fragile dreams

Drink from the fountain of His love 

Let Jesus refresh your wine

Let your love be a shelter

Let there be a willingness to serve, 

A willingness to Koester

A willingness to lose the fight

Knowing He is the wings when you fail and fall

Do not loose the magic and wonder

Of love sealed by the covenant of blood 

Let your hearts be intwined and held by the vine

Forever held by the cross 

Knowing love found a way

GHOST

GHOST

Knock knock, anybody home?

Hello hello you said

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye you meant

Ships passing each other by.

A ghost you were,

A ghost you have been

And a ghost you will remain. 

A love hoped for; yet not ready to be grasped.

The waiting has been long

Faith dried up; hope deferred makes the heart sick

And want to settle for less

and stop trusting for the best

Oh my soul, don't sell yourself short

Don't fall for the lie, or settle for crumbs

Don't forget who and whose you are

Loved, cherished; bought with a price 

Return to your first love;

Let your heart hope and feel

A love that is faithful, a love that is real

Goodbye a knife to the heart

A dream that must die

Yet I'm no Juliet, and my life no tragedy 

I live on the mountain of Jehovah-Jireh 

I choose to trust Emmanuel 

and say goodbye Mr Ishmael

I choose to wait for my Isaac,

who will make me laugh, hold me when I cry

Be here for the good, the bad, the ugly and the ordinary 

I choose to trust and become intertwined

With the one who holds all time

In Him who appears in my storm ridden night

He remains faithful, He remains real

Even if you remain a ghost 

A New Day Dawning

Spring has arrived, flowers are in bloom, the air is fresh and the fragrance is sweet. The Lord spoke to me recently and said “It’s a new day dawning.”

 

Song of Solmon 2:10-13 “My beloved spoke and said to me, “Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, come with me. See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone. Flowers appear on the earth; the season of singing has come, the cooing of doves is heard in our land. The fig tree forms its early fruit; the blossoming vines spread their fragrance. Arise, come, my darling; my beautiful one, come with me.”

It is time for us to arise, arise out of old habits, old ways of thinking, old and skewed ways of viewing the world. God is doing a new thing (Isa 43:18). It is time to let go of the comfortable old ways we did things, old thinking patterns and let Him renew our minds. In this new season we cannot take old wineskins with us, we need to be adaptable, flexible to Him so that he can fill us with His new wine (Matthew 9:17).

Song of Solmon 2: 15 “Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that ruin the vineyards, our vineyards that are in bloom.” This shows we need to guard our relationship with God, and beaware of the things that draw us away from what God is doing in our hearts. It may be an unhealthy relationship, a dependence on food rather than God or many other things. Let us trust the Lord to show us the foxes in our lives, so we can deal with them.

There is an excitement in my spirit about the newness of life that God is wanting to do in and through His people. It is a season of knowing Jesus as our beloved, as the one worthy of all our affection, devotion and time. Let us be willing to let go of the old to embrace the new of what He has for us. Let us arise to the new dawn He has for us.

May God bless you with a new dawn, may He smile upon you and be gracious to you as He brings new life into dead situations.