Walking the Passage: I would be no other

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

I would be no other

I would be no other......

Sitting quietly soaking in that which you are... I see my place... at Your feet and I am hungry for the day that I don't have to do anything but dwell there.....

In that place ... in that hold of Your light and Your power and Your embrace and Your affections ... In that place that is so other... in that place that we pray as it is there please bring it here...... in that place I touch You and am made strong... In that place You and I linger ... in that place no words need to be spoken... no gesture made... in that place .. in the quiet of that place... there is just us... and I absorb You into all that I am.....

Creature mingling with Creator... object of affections unmeasured laying all down as to soak in those affections... You change me .. You mold me... Your hands upon my life .. my soul.. my heart... my mind... set all at ease for the moment.... I would be nothing other than Yours... I would be nothing other than your daughter... than the object of Your affections..... I would be nothing more and nothing less than all that You call me....

This place is where I would linger ... this place is where I have found refuge.. this place is where all makes sense and all else fades away and strength is added and light is added ... and abiding is ................ abiding... abiding... I in You and You in me..... connected ... beyond time and space .. beyond that which would scream to separate us there is abiding....

There are Your eyes to see through and Your heart to feel.... Your ways to submit to and have ... Your ways that tie me to You and Your joy..... I reach into this place and touch Your pounding heart and know that it pounds away for me.... Looking into Your gaze I know nothing else but that fierce affection that steadies and reassures and grows and strengthens and trusts............

There is the shores of a sea to walk along side of with You and to feel the crispy cool colorful air that flows off of her surfaces and dances around us ... there are the streets that are seemingly made of what we would think of as solid and yet have an alive aspect to them that makes the bricks feel more like walking on liquid honey than anything else..... there are the hills and the trees and the meadows and the quiet waters..... and upon all these landscapes You walk with me and shelter me in Your shadow and let me partake in Your strength......

i would be no other than a Citizen of that place... I would be nothing more and nothing less than the person who knows the places from which her citizenship is born forth from ...... how can I be an ambassador of a place whose sights and sounds and smells and tastes would be foreign to me? How could I represent a place that I knew not of?

That place lingers in the fabric of all that I am and upon my feet I wear her soil...... Within my heart her air courses through my being and filters in and out through my skin..... in the pictures of my mind are the marvelous facets that make up the place I would call Kingdom... the place I would call home......

That place I walk towards and walk in and it walks through me and makes me its own and I would be no other......

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One of my Favorite Narnian Quotes...

“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that makes you real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland.

A Brilliant Quote from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in every one.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.