שמעו בנים

Listen, My Sons!

Learn well the wisdom of your mother! Learn submission from the bride, for you were born OF love TO love! She knows well the tender regard of her Lord and Savior, and would have you feel the same joy of your devotion to HIS service alone! You will not regret the loss of any experiences of the dark and violent world, when the light of his shining passion for you consumes you! The bride carries the hope for the future within her, and you bring that same seed of hope to the nations. Only in the intimacy of life lived in close proximity, does the bride understand how intense burns the flame, of Him who is our Hope!

Nothing can compare, not even this life we live here. Didn't He show us the same thing when He gave up His own life for us? Love's courage need not count the cost when HE is the reason why!

Therefore, there is no command or force of violence which can compel us to obedience, save our desire to delight His heart! Our heartbeat is poetry and praise, of the song which is His Name! No one else can know Him better than the one who lives for Him, within the shelter of His matchless strength of arms! This is your home, where is Him who called you by your name into His presence. This is HIM to whom you belong!

Celebrating Anticipation

A world that's supposed to be solid shouldn't look so surreal, an enigmatic silhouette, a solitary figure, with hair a streaming banner in the wind. Our soul stirs in recognition. That's what we looked like when we were questing for truth. It's the familiar romance of disaffected alienation, feeling those tattered, worn out shoes, ugly, but comfortable for exhausted feet. Our life is forever, to us, that grand drama in which we are absorbed.

Faith lives this same life elsewhere, beyond the realm of sight. It's yearning becomes only stronger for the wait. Proof speaks just beneath the timbre of the singing of the wind. Our Beloved, so close that we can feel Him, hear Him, almost see Him, about to touch Him! He tantalizes us with revelation knowledge of the holy mystery of His Person. Foundation of Forever, You will exceed our most glorious expectations!

Our eyes retain their innocence when we've endured through the pain, by trusting Him to accomplish what He said He would do, again. Obviously, in us, are the strongest hearts of all, calmly continuing to watch for Him, each of us his own world of exile, oblivious to the spiraling cinders of a world ablaze around us. Truly a prodigious effort to care about daily things. Those who demand our attention in the present cannot appreciate our distraction, angry insistence leaving what was once harmony ............. homeless. Just remember, if we seem confused, it's because our minds are elsewhere, engrossed in our soon coming King!