" 'Sometimes when I hear of such things I am floored, my emotions change as quickly as I can figure out what I had been feeling.
Then there are times when it's as if the whole of creation slows and all far and near come into focus. Each person past and present, every single action one has ever done is immediately sorted out, though at the time it was awkward, can now not be seen in any other light than which it occurred. Just a split second before this I had barely imagined the question of 'why?'. All that once had beckoned my worst and I had associated with the most evil of forces was outlined in the marks of a Hand that had ceased to lift It's finger since before I can remember. Out of the deafening silence, as if all living things screamed at once, all I hear is 'Did you expect something else?' My reply, if I'm honest, barely escapes my lips 'yes, but this has the markings of eternity'. He smiles, just like He always does, and begins walking again. 'Don't stay here, theres more later.'
I can only say something that stirs up His memory long before my time, 'Where else do I have to go?' "
1 John 3 The Message:
My dear children, let's not just talk about love; let's practice real love. This is the only way we'll know we're living truly, living in God's reality. It is also the way to shut down debilitating self-criticism, even when there is something to it. For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves.
In an instant the useless is deemed useful.
Then there are times when it's as if the whole of creation slows and all far and near come into focus. Each person past and present, every single action one has ever done is immediately sorted out, though at the time it was awkward, can now not be seen in any other light than which it occurred. Just a split second before this I had barely imagined the question of 'why?'. All that once had beckoned my worst and I had associated with the most evil of forces was outlined in the marks of a Hand that had ceased to lift It's finger since before I can remember. Out of the deafening silence, as if all living things screamed at once, all I hear is 'Did you expect something else?' My reply, if I'm honest, barely escapes my lips 'yes, but this has the markings of eternity'. He smiles, just like He always does, and begins walking again. 'Don't stay here, theres more later.'
I can only say something that stirs up His memory long before my time, 'Where else do I have to go?' "
1 John 3 The Message:
My dear children, let's not just talk about love; let's practice real love. This is the only way we'll know we're living truly, living in God's reality. It is also the way to shut down debilitating self-criticism, even when there is something to it. For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves.
In an instant the useless is deemed useful.