5 Minute Friday - Beyond

There is something good about looking at what is beyond – especially when now is weighted with things hard and heavy. 

Beyond carries a measure of hope.  Hope when it is needed most. 

I have been quiet here of late wrestling with things and gazing beyond.

A necessary quiet, it has been.  A worthwhile quiet, I can say. 

It is a whispered thin place between now and beyond. 

Faith residing in both.

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© A Sacred Longing 2009-2012

5 Minute Friday - Beauty

Breathtaking beauty has less do to with what comes in a bottle or is airbrushed on a page.  Rather it is found in the raw and untouched places. 

It is birthed in the heart and breathed into the soul.

It is a song of purpose…

You were not a mistake, for all your days are written in my book – Psalm 139:15-16

My plan for your future has always been filled with hope – Jeremiah 31:3

It is the dance of desire…

I desire to establish you with all my heart and all my soul – Jeremiah 32:41

For you are my treasured possession – Exodus 19:5

It is the grasp of grace…

One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes – Revelation 21:3-4

I gave up everything I loved that I might gain your love – Romans 8:31-32

It can be found in the mirror…

For you are my offspring – Acts 17:28

For you were made in my image – Genesis 1:27

It is in the knowing who He is and who you are.  Oh my friends - do you hear it?  Do you feel it?  Open your eyes and see it! 

You are beautiful!

I am joining in with Five Minute Friday over at The Gypsy Mama. Where you write for 5 minutes - no more and no less.  Each week is a new topic and today it was Beauty.  Check out the link and see what others have written!



© A Sacred Longing 2009-2011

Five Minute Friday - Whole

I know what I have been and most of that isn’t worth repeating.  Cracked and broken is the sum total of my yesterdays. 

Damaged and flawed is what is easy to be.  It requires little effort.  It demands no faith.   
 
What I have been is not who I am.  Though broken and cracked - in Christ - I am whole and complete.   The former things have passed away and the new has come.
 
Wholeness in Christ requires effort.  Not effort to achieve but rather to believe. 

I know what I have been and now I seek to trust what I am.

Whole.

 

I am joining in with Five Minute Friday over at The Gypsy Mama. Where you write for 5 minutes - no more and no less.  Each week is a new topic and today it was WHOLE.  Check out the link and see what others have written!




© A Sacred Longing 2009-2011

A Long, Slow, Deep Breath...

Eyes closed

Unforced quiet

A long slow deep breath

Savoring the aroma of the moment

His presence surrounding me

Light and yet, heavy

Quiet and yet, screaming

Invading the very depths of my being

Here in this place

Now

I sense what seems fleeting

Remains everlasting

Him

Draw in

A long, slow deep breath

Life force

Strength for the moment

Strength for the day

Strength for eternity

Begins in the long, slow deep breath

Of Him

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© A Sacred Longing 2009-2011

Seasons of Waiting

I wait between the quiet and the silent. There is a difference, you know.

The silent is void. Nothing spoken, nothing heard.

Empty

Barren

Wanting

Much like winter, life appears dormant.

Hiding.

I know I have said it one way or another before but it remains true. I have wrestled long and hard this past year with the why and what of who I am. No easy answers are found – especially when everything is silent.

I wait.

And yet much like spring that buds new growth on what appeared long gone, I begin to hear and to the softest sound I strain. I want so desperately a newness to grow.

It is.

For in the quiet, it is His whisper that breathes warm across my heart. I begin to realize silence is a necessary dormancy and so is the wait.

It is a reckoning of sorts. For in it was the weighing of worth against the True measure of life. That which clung to me (or I to it) had to be shed like the dropping leaves in the fall. Stripped and naked there is no place to hide.

Bare

Uncovered

Flaws revealed. Mercy sought. Grace given.

And now, new growth begins.

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© A Sacred Longing 2009-2011