Love Simply

 My favorite scripture, So as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, gentleness and patience.  Col. 3:12 was shown to me visually the other day and the "Chosen" and "Beloved" words were surrounding the word "Holy", and the picture was saying to me, that when we are secure in His choosing us, and in being His beloved, then and only then, "Holy" can grow in us from a place of purity and rest, NOT FROM A PLACE OF PERFORMANCE AND TRYING HARDER.

We are His priests and we are the living sacrifice, SO, the place that we come to is a place of total death to self, so that with us securely and lovingly bound to the altar with cords of love, His Life is free to flow through us and we as priests are in the ultimate place where heaven meets earth, where the people we come into contact with are touched by the pure holy heart of God for their lives.

 We are all just helping each other get home.

It really is as simple as receive the love of God and give it away.

Love is sacrificial by nature, but it is totally unaware of it.

1 Cor. 13 is the most amazing thing ever written by a human, period.

Very blessed by Christmas gifts this year.  A nice card from my oldest, and a book about the history of the United States from the perspective of the indigenous peoples'.  That was a perfect gift because frequently I have thought that maybe part of the reason that the Kingdom of God is not coming to the followers of the Messiah in this country is because of the curse brought on it by the greed and evil of our ancestors who pushed and killed their way to land ownership.  David Brainerd was a missionary who sought to simply love the indigenous people and show them the heart of God, he did it right, but for every David Brainerd there were 1,000 greedy, self-centered, entitled idiots who specialized in stealing, killing and destroying...that should sound familiar, it is one of the very few descriptions of the work of satan found in the Bible.  Another gift was a revolver, a .22 with an eagle painted on it.  It was a gift of extravagant love, and a reminder of good times shared together.  Another gift was astronaut ice cream, again, a reminder of good times shared together at the Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.  Another gift has a homemade wrist bracelet in the pattern and colors that I asked for.  As always, a homemade gift is a gift of time and love and is much appreciated.  On the practical side, a hat and gloves and JIF peanut butter and jelly rounded out the gifts I received.  Practical gifts can remind you every time you use them that you are loved.

So good-bye 2020, my guess is, if we received all of your training, as training, we will be prepared for 2021.