Walking the Passage: I knew where I was and my heart leapt for joy... In my Father's house are many rooms and much delight dwells within

Monday, March 21, 2011

I knew where I was and my heart leapt for joy... In my Father's house are many rooms and much delight dwells within

My feet felt the cool solid feeling of the tile underneath them and I smiled... I knew where I was and my heart leapt for joy. I was in His house... huge sigh filled my lungs and I could feel the utter delight upon my face and the same emotion and feeling coursed through my whole being.... His house.. home... my home... His home... In His house are many ... oh so many rooms and I was standing in His house ...

And

Since it was His house.. I knew as my feet felt the cool wonderful feeling of the gloriously white tile type material beneath them that He was near.... I closed my eyes and my smile grew even more solid and deep .....

He had come up behind me and was gently welcoming me as His hands touched my shoulders all that I was arose into that place of belonging... of daughter.... of delight.... sheer ... absolute... full delight... delight in being His and knowing Him and His delight over me...

It could have been seconds.. it could have been hours... days or weeks... or a thousand years... I just remained in that place and lingered with His affections pouring out over me and mine flowing back towards Him... like the cycle of water.... a continual flow of release... receiving... absorbing ... releasing back... and the strength... oh the strength that just flowed with the affections .. so sturdy.. so solid... so strong...

And another deep breath and another huge smile and another moment of lingering.... closed eyes... solid fellowship... breathing Him in and breathing Him out and being brought into Him and standing within all that He is and taking that in and relishing in every moment....

Ah and then His hand .. His hand brought my head back upon His shoulder and held me against Himself and I felt His deep breath... His delight in holding me .. His delight in being with me.. His pleasure in being my Father....

And the moments just kept spinning as for lack of better language... and it was good.. oh so very very good... and I saw and I understood... how it truly is so very very good..... beyond good... it's life.. and joy... and beauty... and perfection all wrapped into a oneness that will never cease to exist.....

I am a part of Him and He is a part of me and apart from one another I can do nothing ... I can do nothing on my own.. but in this place... in this place I soar...

This is my food... this is my life... this is all that I hunger for... all that I truly need.... when places and times and moments like these are granted by Him ... well.. what more can any daughter want... time.. time spent in beautiful moments of adoration and affection... of being loved and being saturated by the very one who had known my name before the very foundations of the earth were lain....

He thought of me... He delighted in me and then I was.... He so specifically fashioned me... and He knew we would love one another forever.... He watched over me .. Stood for all time as my Lord.... stood for all time between me and all that would be other than Him.... Stood for all time with His hands upon me ... me bearing His image ... and in so doing declaring to all that would see that I was His ... His daughter... reflector of His passions... reflector of His delight... reflector of His likeness....

In me He sees Himself and He fashioned me for joy.... In us He sees Himself... as a child is a reflection of their parents... just by makeup .. just by genetics... a child reflects those that are called mom and dad... we reflect Him.... His image is branded upon us... We are His and we bear His image....

My most heartfelt prayer is that we would not just bear it well but that we would rest in the depth of the knowledge that it is who we are .. at the most intrinsic level .. it is who we are .. We are His.... this world doesn't own us.. neither height nor depth nor life nor death nor principality nor power nor future nor present.. neither angels or demons.. nothing can separate us from Him... nothing.... nothing in all creation can separate us from His love... that is how solid it is... that is how tangible it is....

Ah .. in my Father's house are so many rooms and within His house there is delight .. .delight forever more

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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.