Velcro of the Heart

Outside everything looks great. The day glistens with sunshine. People move place to place with seemingly great ease and purpose. The clock demands my focus to tasks at hand. Basics of life are within reach. Prayers mutter through my mind as I think of those I love. All in all --everything casts a content hue. Yet...

Inside - instability. Discontentment. Is it holy discontentment or just missed place hope?

Velcro of the Heart. One side "needs" the other side "hopes." We are called trust (root meaning ATTACH OUR SELVES TO) the Lord. Hope is the ingredient that stabilizes contentment within my soul. If I am discontent than I have plugged into an object or a person that will not fulfill. For God promises that hoping in Him will cause me to thirst no more. What an audacious promise!

Discontment is bred in my attachment to anything but Him.

Time to embrace the sound of velcro coming undone. I long to reattach to the Lover of My Soul.

Winds of Change

Today, I sensed "delay." It was thick in the atmosphere of my mind. Thoughts of Daniel and the angel being delayed by tne enemy shot through my mind. A fierce wave of intolerance rolled over me; there is no reason -- no earthly reason --breakthrough hasn't occurred. Sitting at the stop light with hands gripping the steering wheel, I gazed at the taunting RED light. Enough. It is time for change.

The words roared out of my mouth:

"To the north, south, east, and west I call for the winds of change. Bring release. Bring breakthrough. Delay no longer."

A storm raged through Atlanta this afternoon...

Winds of Change.