November
Today, I am walking through my little park and singing a new song. The words of this song start like this, “there is a garden of your glory where a river flows with your love. There are flowers of your kindness where a breeze blows with your peace.” This is a song about the kingdom of God the kingdom of love. I've been thinking a lot about the kingdom of love. I feel it God wants me to see it and feel it and know it and believe it. And speak it. The kingdom of love is everywhere God is so it's everywhere. We experience it most profoundly deeply in nature. God created all of nature to reflect him in so many ways. His goodness is love his peace his power. And many other ways. We enter his kingdom and worship. But there's also a kingdom of darkness. And that kingdom is filled with chaos, sadness, anger, deceit, lying, sickness, frustration, brokenness and on and on. But the Lord uses all of that he uses all of that created by the kingdom of darkness, he uses all of that to gently lovingly draws into the kingdom of love his kingdom. He's drawing every one of us everyday every minute. He's drawing me everyday every minute. He has so much good for us. So much love. If we can just let ourselves trust him and be drawn into the kingdom of love the kingdom of God.
Wow!!! I just had the most amazing thought! From the Lord of course! I'm walking along the path here and I can see all the branches on the trees, they're bare now. And I can see how some of the branches turn down. And I've read that whenever a branch turns down rather than up it needs to be pruned. That's one of the signs of the needing to be pruned even if it's producing leaves it needs to be pruned. Well while I'm looking at this. I'm thinking about how nature is this beautiful environment where the kingdom of love is expressed so fully but as I'm looking at these trees that are growing right here free and wild I'm thinking wow they think he pruned. And that's when I thought about how at the very beginning of everything in the book of Genesis, one of the very first things that God does with Adam is he makes him a caretaker of the garden. Wow and we all think about that that meant taking care of the actual trees and bushes and whatever. But it means more it means more goddess invited us He's invited me, to be a caretaker in his garden of love. Wow....