By one Spirit in one Body- given one Spirit to drink

A large part of my day is spent in a place that just doesn't make a whole lot of spiritual sense to me.

It's almost* as if Christ is shelved;
and God won't let me alone about it.

Those that have claimed Christ far outnumber those that don't and the darkness of it all eats at me.

I'm learning to use my spiritual fog-lamps, though.

He is allowing me to peer through the muck and into the clearing.

This week the Spirit has been fanning my flame.

First, The Complete Green Letters book was placed in my chair on Monday morning.  This somewhat obscure book has been a great companion to me over the last few years unbeknownst to the person that placed it there.  God knew this would speak to me and give me the courage to do something He has been waiting on me to do for a very long time.  It was an amazing connect the dots moment. 

Then, today I had a spiritual conversation that was so precious to me.  A person has been struggling with some very, very difficult life issues and none of us had a clue.  I was so happy to be used by the Spirit and it served to build up my faith further.

God is asking to do some mighty scary things. I so want to be back in the place I used to be when I could firmly say that I had no real fears.  Soon.  I sense my prison walls crumbling!

Last night I fixed my eyes on 1 Corinthians 12

Here are the take a ways God illuminated for me: 

• But in fact God has arranged the parts of the body, every one of them, just as He wanted them to be.
• those parts of the Body that seem to be weaker are indespinsable
• AND the parts of the Body that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor
• AND the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty
• Its parts should have equal concern for each other

You are one great God!!!

*(my use of this word denotes fear..blah!)

The Meal

The French know how to enjoy life through these little mound receptors on our tongues called taste-buds and last night this country girl met the Riviera in style. 

I was the honored recipient of artisan cooking. 

We sat at the table and enjoyed the bounty that God has provided. 

We toasted to diversity.

We laughed our heads off.

We read from the scriptures.

MENU:

Herbes De Provence Crusted Chicken (spices and lavendar)

WITH a lemony, cream-based sauce

Potatoes

REAL Sauteed Mushrooms

AND a little blue cheese with a homemade French baguette!!!

Are you kidding me???

The answer is NO!

Resurrect Me

Today has been weighty in so many ways.  Why?  Because without God my focus becomes so narrow, bleak and highly uninteresting, which equals prison.  So tonight I come home to the Word of God that feeds my hunger that there is more to this existence.  And not in a booger-eater kindergarten sort of way, but more to the effect that we are floating on a rock in an expanding universe and can have an intimate relationship with Creator of said universe sort of way.  Don't make me name the ways in which I tried bridging the gap in my own power.  Nothing satisfies like Christ.  But then again, Christ has to come with revelation.  Anyhoo, I came home and opened my Bible to 1 Corinthians 15 and here are the things that stood out:

• you have taken your stand
  
• hold firm or else it is in vain that you believe
• some have fallen asleep
• by the grace of God I am what I am
• if Christ has not been raised, my faith is futile

The end.