Savior Saving During Our Safe Sleeping

Those eyes followed me across the room, I felt them linger as I wandered into the kitchen to prepare her dinner.  And yet, as I prepared her yet another meal, those sullen, sulky, stalking eyes stared at me.  And I began to eye the duffle bag silently sitting on the shelf, an empty bag is meant to be filled. I began to daydream as sullen, sulky, stalking eyes silently bore into the back of my neck ~ I saw myself pull empty duffle bag waiting ever so patiently on the shelf and began to fill it with all her things.  In my daydream I saw myself silently, solemnly march the bag to the side of the street and gently set her things down ~ and I simply said, "You can take your sullen, sulky, stalking eyes to the street sister!  See how the street will serenade you in her sulky song!  This 'woe is me' becomes woefully tiring and days become weeks and weeks turn to months and months pass to years and I grow sick of you sullen, sulky, stalking eyes."

A quiet whisper broke through my reverie ~ ". . . working in you what is well pleasing in His sight. . . " ~ hmmm, sounds familiar, I may have read that some place.

Hebrews 13:21 ~ "make complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever.  Amen."

I prayed this verse over myself and I turned to a different set of eyes and an entirely radical and simply heavenly type of sight ~ so I mentally unpack the duffle bag and sullen, sulky, stalking set of eyes sleeps another night within my sight.

Tomorrow ~ rinse and repeat.  Until those sullen, sulky eyes see a new Sight and new Sight imparts gift of eternal Light.  But, for now ~ rinse and repeat.

-  Sulky, sullen, stalking eyes causes my blood to boil.
-  Duffle bag is pulled down from shelf.
-  Street starts to sing a song of its sullen defeat to sister with sullen eyes.
-  Hebrews 13 begins a work afresh and a new Sight saves sulky sister for another sleep.
-  Boiling Mama remembers the dawning Light in so many young eyes and the transformations as He gave new Sight.
-  And sullen sister is saved by saved sisters and born again brothers because Mama remembers ~ remembers other sullen, sulky sets of eyes.
-  Tomorrow ~ rinse and repeat under the faith that a tomorrow is coming where sullen, sulky sight beholds our glorious Light.

Sometimes the Savior saves by simply securing you another safe sleep.

To all my adoptive parent peeps ~ remember the Savior does all the saving and we simply serve as the safe sleeping.

The Alarm Clock is Sounding

By in large, you were very quiet.

Truth be told, so was he.  Quiet, very quiet.

Sitting around a table I strained to hear, I so desperately wanted to hear his story.  And in a quiet, unassuming way he did tell a tale or two.  And the telling of his tale I felt deeply within in the depths of my soul ~ words of suffering and sacrifice stir the spirit for they so closely mirror the tale of our Savior's suffering.

And yet I hear such a deafening difference between his quietness and our silence.  His is birthed in humility and a weariness we can not fathom ~ our silence is certainly not from humility nor weariness, in fact it is quite the opposite.

I can not mention his name nor even his country of origin, enemies of the true bride of Christ abound.

The only details that need to be told are that God, the great Networker, connected us to him because He is opening deaf ears to hear.

I have been praying and fasting that your ears will hear and I am believing in my wonder working God that He is awakening His western free church.

His church will arise, the question is ~ will you arise with it?

If you hear the Spirit's calling to arise contact me personally so I can connect you with His suffering church.

The alarm is sounding . . .
   it is time to wake up church.