Walking the Passage: In my Father's house..... revisiting my favorite place... how it was in the beginning.... the thousand days....

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

In my Father's house..... revisiting my favorite place... how it was in the beginning.... the thousand days....

I remember the time where at the gate I stood.... you know the bible talks about a day is like a thousand years and a thousand years is like a day... and in that time it felt like I stood at that gate for a thousand years... stood and stared at the house... at the home... at that place where I knew He was..... I can feel the feeling of that metal in the palm of my hand as I held the gate and leaned against it and just looked and looked and looked.....

Ah in those days I wandered not even in the courtyard... though my inheritance was to enter in with boldness and confidence as a child coming home.... I played outside the gate... or just within it... but not much further....

Thinking upon those days I remember... I remember wanting to be in its presence but not wanting to get too close... but yet I couldn't leave either.....

I remember the day that I sat upon the stoop of the house... upon the stairs that led up to that great door.... and I just sat there... and again it was as if a thousand years would pass....

Until one day the door opened... and He would come and sit next to me..... I remember the silence that existed in those days... the air was thick... but nothing was said... I didn't even dare to look at Him.... but there we sat and again another thousand years must have passed.....

Then in one moment I turned my head as to look at Him... His presence had so warmed my soul that I wanted to see His face... the silence still existing between us... but I wanted to see Him ... I wanted to see His face.... well,.... with that one movement I was utterly and forever changed....

Keep my gaze upon you Father.... keep my heart in Your hand.... let us sit side by side for all eternity.... You in Your awesome and majestic and magnificent You and me created in Your image... bearing Your likeness... Yours.... sitting side by side and whether in silence or in the abundance of Your voice... I have been changed.... and am being changed... may I linger and live and abide there... always there... overshadow me .... I rest in You....

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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.