BeLOnGings

Our first home in Belfast after we were married, had a small enclosed back garden. Each morning I would “walk the cloister” reading and praying. One morning as I was reading, “I will give thanks to you O Lord among the nations.” Dad said to me, “I’m going to give you many other cloisters”

When we moved to the US I remember one of those early cloisters in Minnesota was a circle of large stones. As I stepped from bolder to bolder finally arriving at the fifth and final one, I heard Dad add ”…….that would be – cloisters on all 5 continents” Subsequently He did indeed take us to cloisters on the two continents, Asia and Australasia, that we had not yet visited.

This week we have come full circle and are back to Belfast.

Again our Father has miraculously provided a wonderful place for us to stay and cloister for me to walk and we to talk. This time it is on “the other side of the tracks”, where the Stena Lines run from where we began. Hilary and I find ourselves in a beautiful home with a garden running right down to the water’s edge graciously made available to us by kind folk we have not even met!

Each morning I have had the joy of clambering over the wall at the end of the garden and beginning the day by plunging into the Lough! The 15,000 Minnesota lakes aren’t able to buoy me up like the salt water of the Irish Sea, so I linger on my back staring into Dad’s smiling face and the ever changing Irish cloudscape as I relish getting grounded in the ocean.

Dripping my way back to the patio I am greeted by this sign…….more than just a humanly crafted artifact I get the message, as Dad reminds me through the Aboriginal art of our visit to meet these first people in their homelands in the heart of the Australian outback

This space in time and place will give more opportunity to REFLECT on how over the years we have indeed experienced being “loved” by our heavenly Dad

At the end of the recorded path was, Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life”

If goodness and mercy are following us, then we have to stop and turn around to see them. In our crazy busy world the Devil has had a field day distracting dissatisfied souls and keeping them “unreflective” in regards to the goodness and mercy that has followed each and every one of us each and every day of our lives……….if we only paused more often to let our good shepherd point it out!

I recall one trip to ‘The Bush’, Down and Under that occurred just after the first serious rains in generations. The desert was blooming! Isaiah 35 fulfilled!

A drive yet further Out and Back from Alice Springs was made memorable when our rental car stalled midstream! Fortunately an ‘angel’ arrived just as the sun was setting with tow rope and four wheel drive to pull us out of the river and rescue us from the deadly Aussie nighttime prowlers.

But the even more memorable experience was lying down on a riverbed that had not seen water for decades, and allowing the crystal clear living water to run over and through my entire body……..as I gazed into the smiling face of Dad, shining on the opposite side of this same earth!

Lost in wonder, love and praise I turn from the “sign” to gaze again at the ‘pot of gold’ at the end of the rainbow that had just appeared to mark this moment……this place…….this grace.

I have learned over the years that God is not limited to a particular time or place. He wants us to transition so that the whole of LIFE becomes our cloister.

Sitting in a coffee shop in the ancient walled in town of Carrickfergus I noticed this couple looking longingly into a travel agent’s window. Lockdowns have people ansi to get out of our “walled” cities. So much of life consists of looking forward to the next ‘experience’. Father whispered “I want to meet you in the entire experience of life……not just in a life of experiences!”

In “The Innocents” song I reference Rev. 6 9-11 in the line, “From the earth their blood cries out beneath the altar.”

A study around that passage appeared a few days ago in Stephen Jones current enlightening and encouraging blog series, “The rise of the house of Joseph.”
https://godskingdom.org/blog/2021/05/the-rise-of-the-house-of-joseph-part-7

There is much good news to report from Ireland, not least the birth of our latest grandson, Thomas Joseph Mayes, on 7/6/2021. He says Hi!

On top of this, our Father has been filling our time with assignments and appointments. Hopefully I will get to blogging about some of these soon.

https://www.prageru.com/video/ep-188-the-churches-that-refused-to-kneel/

A few months ago Hilary and I eventually got round to watching the movie “1917” The storyline had caught our attention when it was first released, as it reflected the real life drama involving Hilary’s father.

In 1914 at 16 years, the idealistic young Frank faked his age to enlist to dutifully serve King and country in The Great War. Entrenched with his comrades at The Somme, he was selected for a ‘behind enemy lines’ mission. On returning to his unit he was dismayed to discover that their section of the trench suffered a direct ‘hit’ and his friends and comrades had all been killed! He alone had providentially been spared

As we watched the movie we again came face to face with the utter horror and futility of that war. I picked up my first book of poetry as a youth, and read once more…..

What passing bells for those who die as cattle

Only the monstrous anger of the guns.

Only the stuttering rifles rapd rattle

Can patter out their hasty orisons……

My last two blogs have likely contained material that has been known to some of you but has likely shocked others! As always I am not asking you to take my word. To acknowledge some trust on the basis of whatever relationship we may have, yes, but then please do your own prayerful research.

I came across the beginnings of what looks like a good docu-series just, launched called “The Pyramid of Power.” It is disclosing how it only takes a few powerful people at the top of a pyramid to be in control in order for a web of deception to be woven entrapping those beneath. Once we grasp this possibility, our being ‘red pilled’ as in the movie, The Matrix, has begun!

Significantly the first episode in the series discusses EDUCATION. I believe our personal journey of ‘unlearning’ and ‘re-education’ has been orchestrated by our heavenly Father primarily through our being brought into direct contact with people with whom we have become friends and whom we have grown to respect and trust and whose biblical and historical insights we have come to value. The discerning use of the internet has of course been a most helpful adjunct on the journey.

Paul warns that in ‘the last days’ evil people will “worm their way into homes and gain control.” (Titus 3:6) What a prophetic description of TV and by extension the propaganda arm of the puppeteer paymasters, ESTABLISHMENT MEDIA which happens appropriately to be the second part in the series released a few days ago.

Here is an illustration of how this powerful, ubiquitous ‘propaganda’ operates in today’s world.

We have been repeatedly told by the Establishment Media that the Covid ‘vaccines’ are “safe” With the advent of the internet we are now able with relatively little effort to search out if this is in fact true. Here are 2 videos, one statistical, one anecdotal that point to another set of “Innocents.” who have become current casualties of the Pyramid of Power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSrc_s2Gqfw

https://www.afinalwarning.com/518994.html describes how VAERS set up by the U.S. government for reporting Vaccine Adverse Reactions, currently shows the number of deaths reported in the US following the ‘shot’ to be over 4,400. (A Harvard study showed how this system picked up a mere 1% of the actual number!) Normally a drug will be immediately withdrawn after causing about 50 deaths, yet with more deaths being reported to VAERs in the first 4 months of 2021 than in the previous 21 years, rather than being pulled, the ‘shots’ continue to be pushed! (These are not ‘vaccines’ in the conventional sense of ‘preventing infection and transmission’ None of the vaccine trials showed that the vaccine prevented people from getting COVID-19. The only difference between those that were vaccinated versus unvaccinated were their severity of symptoms.)

Returning to my opening story……The first verse of the song speaks of ‘The Innocents’ being “fed to the cannon as fodder.” This military image points to that swath of ‘Innocents‘ who have again over the centuries been victims of the Pyramid of Power, – like those soldier friends of Hilary’s father’s who never made it home in 1918!

Dr. James Bruggeman whom I know is currently reposting a lengthy blog series called “Mystery Bablyon and the Stone Kingdom.” where he delves more deeply into ‘the (real) story behind the (propaganda) story’ to discover the hidden actors in history, at the apex of this Pyramid of Power. The usual suspects emerge, nefariously funding both sides of conflicts from the American Civil War to the Bolshevik Revolution to the two World Wars, right up to the present time. Their goal?…. to increase their wealth and control at the cost of the young men who were, and continue to be ‘fed to the canon as fodder”

Stone Kingdom, the name of James ministry, is taken from Daniel’s interpretation of Nebucadnezzer’s dream. “Inasmuch as you saw that the STONE was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold.” (Dan.2:45)……“The stone that struck the statue became a huge mountain (KINGDOM) and filled the whole earth.” (Dan.2:35)

This describes how this historical sequence of earthly kingdoms is now about to become “the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ.” (Rev.11:15)

“The time has come Almighty God. these kings to shatter!”

What will now replace this Pyramid of Power? We read about it in Isaiah 2:2….

” In the last days THE MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD’S TEMPLE will be established as the highest of the mountains; it will be exalted above the hills, and all nations will stream to it.”

The ‘capstone’ of God’s pyramid, is Jesus Christ. (Ps. 118:22, Zech.4:7) Our HEAD was birthed 2000 years ago. Now is time for THE BODY OF CHRIST to inevitably follow, in the second phase of this birthing process!

When you reverse the word EVIL you get LIVE. Jesus said, “I have come that you might have LIFE and have it abundantly. This is “a future filled with hope“(Jer.29:11 NET) that lies ahead for us, beyond the current ‘death cult’.

The final verse of the song describes the age of Tabernacles which we are now entering into……

Now this army awake, there’s a new world to make for the children who were lead to the slaughter. In the name of the Lamb who before the world began had been slain on behalf of God’s children. Now here we are on our feet without number, rising up to fill the street out of our slumber. The shepherd came and found his sheep, love was the answer. The earth belongs now to the meek, we stand in wonder! Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.”

“Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father’s name written on their foreheads. And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps. And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. These are those who did not defile themselves among women, for they remained virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among mankind and offered as FIRSTFRUITS to God and the Lamb.“ (Rev. 14:1-4)

The ‘firstfruits‘ offering always signaled the beginning (not end) of the harvest. May we aspire to be a part of this company who “……..will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with Him for a thousand years.” (Rev. 20:6)

The earth belongs now to the meek….we stand in wonder!

Hallelujah!

P.S. Hilary and I are (D.V.) headed for Ireland on Monday for several weeks. We hope to meet our latest grandchild…. and whoever else our Father has planned. : – )

I have also been mulling over some new ideas in connection with the blog……

Again I am inviting your questions, comments and suggestions.

“There’s an army asleep while the children like sheep, are all lead like a lamb to the slaughter. They are snatched, they are pulled, they are grabbed, they are fooled, they are fed to the cannon as fodder. Wake us up from our sleep from our slumber. Break our hearts for these ones who are plunder. From the earth their blood cries out beneath the altar. The time has come, Almighty God, these kings to shatter. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The time has come.

Let God’s army awake, so this thief cannot take away our children as lambs to the slaughter. No more snatch, no more pull, no more grab, no more fool, as the silence of the lambs gives way to thunder. Wake us up from our sleep from our slumber. Break our hearts for these ones who are plunder. From the earth their blood cries out beneath the altar. The time has come, Almighty God, these kings to shatter. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The time has come.

Now this army awake, there’s a new world to make for the children who were lead to the slaughter. In the name of the Lamb who before the world began had been slain on behalf of God’s children. Now here we are on our feet without number, rising up to fill the street out of our slumber. The shepherd came and found his sheep, love was the answer. The earth belongs now to the meek, we stand in wonder! Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.”

I am currently reading INITIATION (My Journey with an Apache Medicine Man) by Jeffrey Prather, in which he describes the Apache first and second rules of warriorship:

“Nothing must ever be done to harm the children”

“Everything is born of woman.”

In the spiritual battle for humanity we find ourselves currently caught up in, he describes how our motivation as God’s warriors is not hatred towards those before us, but a great love for those behind us, that is the women and children we are committed to defend.

The diabolical evil we are confronting has targeted these very ones we men are called to lay down our lives for.

I was given this song a few months ago. I was confirmed that now was the time to release it when I came across the following videos.

First is a moving interview with Jim Caviezel, (of “The Passion of the Christ”) who plays the part of Tim Ballard, in a true story about how trafficked children are being rescued, in a movie soon to be released, called, “The Sound of Freedom” Please click below to watch the interview and trailer.

Then I came across this second pertinent video that again may shock the uninitiated! Click below to watch.

https://drcharlieward.com/gods-children-are-not-for-sale-human-trafficking-with-claire-daneille-madyson/

These videos illustrate how our children and our women, i.e. the future of humanity is under attack.

They also show how bad and dishonest leaders in corrupted institutions are now being exposed even as good and true leaders are emerging.

One simply needs to identify the “Harfang Giants” (The Silver Chair) of Big Media, Big Government, Big Business, Big Tech, Big Religion etc and see who they are ‘canceling’ and censoring to discover the ‘little (Puddleglum) heroes’ as they courageously stand for truth at great personal risk and cost……..people like Jim and Tim, Claire and Madyson.

…….“Show me a country where these type of people represent the leadership so we can live there!”

…….”No need to move, the kingdom of God is even now….coming on earth! Hallelujah!”

The kid’s chorus about the ‘Giant’ vs ‘the little guy’ comes to mind, “Well you’ve heard of little David, he was awful small. Yeah! Well you’ve heard of little David, half the size of Saul. Oh Yeah! Well he didn’t wear his armor but it didn’t matter much at all. I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you why. He had the Lord on his side on his side. Yeah! He had the Lord on his side on his side. Oh Yeah! He had the Lord on his side on his side.”

Thankfully God’s army is awakening and arising, beginning with a fearless Gideon’s three hundred. We look forward to the inevitable divine deliverance as ‘Jesus’ shines forth in the overcomers, and the rescued become the rescuers.

“The hand of our God for good is on those who seek him, the power of his wrath against those who forsake him.” (Ezra 8:22)

The Titanic Bell was one of the few artifacts we brought with us from Belfast to America. It had been a “Thank You” gift from our French brothers and sisters after they spent a week with us recording, Viens Seigneur Viens, the French version of the musical, Come Lord Jesus. The Titanic had of course been built in, and like us, had set sail from, the city of Belfast, on it’s fateful maiden voyage.

Little did we know that from 1995 -2000 every Sunday afternoon we would end up hosting an event in of all places…… The Titanic Lounge, in a downtown Minneapolis Irish pub. The title of the event, St Brendan’s L(a)unch, conjured up the image of a fragile little coracle venturing forth into the wild Atlantic with humble trust in God, and stood in stark contrast to the arrogance surrounding the ‘unsinkable’ Titanic.

This was a God created context in which we were able to share about our faith in Jesus Christ through the vehicle of the Irish culture. There we used the Titanic Bell, ringing it to let folk know they should go to their tables because it was……

“Time for your Irish fry and another round of songs and stories!”

Since then, the Titanic Bell has sat aloft a high dresser in our living room, that is until last weekend, when I lifted it down and asked one of the FREEDOM! prayer team to ring it whenever it came time to rally folk during the retreat to let them know it was………

“Time to leave your home baked Irish fruit soda and go upstairs for more songs and stories!’

The last few participants left on Sunday afternoon. One of them, a trusted friend, had handed me a book he thought I would appreciate reading. As the dust settled later that afternoon, I lifted it from the coffee table to begin the read.

Then I realized that there, on the front cover, was a photo of the ill fated Titanic……and right next to it?

…..our Titanic bell!

What are the chances???

In “Kid by the Side of the Road” Juan O Savin uncovers the hidden truth surrounding some of the pivotal moments in recent American history as pictured on the front of the book, notably the assassination of JFK, the taking down of the Twin Towers, and the sinking of the Titanic.

Having done my own research over the years I concurred with his account of the sinking of the Titanic (actually the Olympic) engineered to eliminate three of the wealthiest men in America who were opposing the take over of the US monetary system by a European based, privately owned, central bank cartel. These bankers spawned ‘The Creature from Jekyll Island’, the Federal Reserve, which historically has been a ‘debt/slavery’ instrument, and no more a Federal government agency than FedEX!

Juan describes how the thirteen bloodline families of which the Rothchild’s sit at the head of the table in ‘The City of London’, have used their wealth throughout the centuries, to control and manipulate humanity. They are of the Luciferian religion, in total opposition to God. “The god of this world‘ we are told comes to “steal, kill and destroy” everything that bears the image and likeness to God.

He takes a deep dive into this, describing their use of signs, symbols and numbers. For example the number 17 is their most important number because they believe their god, Osiris, died and was resurrected on the 17th day. They also believe the maximum ‘dark magic’ is created by x 3 magnification. From a military perspective the most undercover site in North America, the location of deep, dark secrets, has been given the name Area 51, i.e. 3 x 17.

As I read this I then realized, that the key scripture we had just used in the FREEDOM retreat was….Zephaniah 3:17 !

This scripture was the inspiration for our FREEDOM! song, which expresses our heavenly Father’s delight in each one of us as his children lovingly created in his image.

“On the day you were born I danced over you

On the day you were born I rejoiced

On the day you were born all heaven proclaimed,

“You’re the child of my love your my choice.’

This is the very antithesis of Luciferianism which seeks to annihilate humanity from the moment of conception, through abortion, and then from the moment of birth through many diabolical strategies including the horrors of child sex trafficking, torture and sacrifice, an industry that has now overtaken drugs in it’s profitability. The muzzling, masking and injecting of babies and children with an experimental gene altering cocktail is the latest addition to this arsenal being employed as part of Satan’s anti god, anti human, global depopulation plan.

Last weekend we were blessed to witness the redeeming power of our Zephaniah 3.17 God.

Through the ‘good news’ of our ‘Dad’s’ redeeming love revealed in the cross of Christ, captives were healed from past wounds, set free and brought into ‘the glorious freedom of the sons of God (Rm.8:21) …..a foretaste of what is to come in God’s failsafe plan, as he redeems all the numbers, beginning with…….

3.17

In our final session we sang together….

Towards the final conflict God’s word our command.

We move inevitably onwards God’s weapons held in our hands.

In Him we shall do more than conquer; before our Lord who can stand.

Man shall glorify his Maker; God shall be enjoyed!

And that one called The Deceiver; his works shall be destroyed.

For the kingdom of this world it shall become

The Kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ

And He shall reign for ever and evermore

This morning I will be giving a talk at our FREEDOM! retreat about the nature of God our Father. At one point I put two images up:

The first is a well known painting, called ‘The Scream’ You might also call it O.M.G. for “Oh, My God!”

The second image is of our Grandson Ravi at 10 days old. You might call it G.M.D. or “Good Mornin’ Dad.”

Which face you carry depends on whether or not you have yet beheld the face of God. Can you wake in the morning singing back to God, “I open my eyes I see your smiling face.”?

‘For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.’ (2 Cor. 4:6)

To put it another way, “Are you still a Jacob, struggling to get your own way, or have you finished wrestling at Peniel (the face of God) to become Israel (God rules) surrendering completely to His good and sovereign will?”

Let me add a third acronym, K.I.S.S.

Last week we attended a concert at our Grandchildren’s school “Songs of Stage and Screen” As I practiced K.I.S.S. i.e. Keep It Simple Stupid” and listened in a childlike way, one song after another came across to me as retelling part of The Big Story…… “When I Grow Up.” “ Hard Knock Life” “I Just Can’t Wait to be King.” “One Day More.” and so on.

“I thank you Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and learned and revealed them to babes.” ! (Matt.11:25)

Every since then, I have found myself humming……

“Zippidy DO DA Zippidy yA!

My Oh My! What a WONDERFUL DAY!

Plenty of SON-shine heading my way……..”

Our DA knows the end (Z) from the beginning (A) and he is DOing his thing as we anticipate the coming of the SON -shine. This is why each and every DAY is indeed – WONDERFUL!

Click below for a succinct presentation by Nick Hudson helping make sense of the mad and evil world in which we find ourselves living in these days. He represents a group called PANDA for PANdemic Data and Analysis. These folk seek to take an honest look at science divorced from the corrupting influences of political power and financial gain.

https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/04/17/the-ugly-truth-about-covid.aspx?ui=bb2b60c02cb8338e5023840cf77638fdf4a643a5a675322588c45da11142be99&sd=20210310&cid_source=dnl&cid_medium=email&cid_content=art1HL&cid=20210417&mid=DM860177&rid=1135217893

As I reflected on their name, I again smiled, the Greek prefix PAN means, “all, every, whole, all-inclusive,” and DA of course refers to our heavenly Father who sees and oversees everything! This is why we can remain at peace as we handle the uncomfortable truths of this presentation.

It’s back once again to God’s warning to those who ‘conspire against the Lord and against his Anointed’ (Ps. 2:2)

“K.I.S.S. the SON lest he be angry, and you perish in the way. For his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all they that take refuge in Him!” “.(Ps. 2:12)

The “WAY of JESUS” is the way of TRUTH that leads to LIFE.

Artur Pawlowski’s is a Polish pastor in Canada whose recent video showing him taking a Stand for TRUTH went viral. He shares about a vision God gave him of people sitting on a fence, Then God began shaking the fence and everyone fell off on one side or the other. As I pondered this I sensed these were the two sides.

Those who STAND for TRUTH……………………………………………….Those who FALL for LIES.

Click on the FlashPoint icon below to hear a most inspiring interview with Artur I would highly recommend, especially minutes 15 – 55

Now Is the Time! Pastor Artur Pawloski, Lance Wallnau, Mario Murillo & Hank Kunneman (April 13, 2021)

This week another courageous man, James O’Keefe with Project Veritas (TRUTH) published a number of videos where a CNN director revealed how that channel (representative of all Mainstream Media and Big Tech) deliberately lies to manipulate the public into agreeing with a preset ‘agenda’

” For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the TRUTH.” (Rm.1:18)

https://www.bitchute.com/video/SNUcQDYTMSfq/

A friend from Belfast just sent me an link to BBC which I rarely look at now. As I scrolled down the page ‘to catch the flavor’ I noticed an interview with the establishment icon, Sir David Attenborough in which he discloses a godless, ‘globalist’ antihuman agenda (21). He says,

“Humans are intruders” “The natural world would do better if we weren’t here at all.”

Just think about that……..

If you’ve been in the pot of propaganda water being brought to the boil with the other crabs for some time it may not mean much too you, but as I have been out of that pot for some time now, It hit me like a ton of bricks!

Again Romans 1 comes to mind

“…..they exchanged the TRUTH of God for a lie and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is forever praised.” (Rm.1:21)

………..I had just listened to a comprehensive interview with Dr. Michael Pearson, former VP of Pizer which is a good summary of where things are at with Covid 19, the vaccines, and more. He describes with honesty his journey into TRUTH and at one point says he can only conclude, there must be a malignant motivation behind this agenda that would be the ideal way to ‘depopulate‘ the world!

https://www.bitchute.com/video/qs9X8Blr4Ucv/?fbclid=IwAR2awYFr0e7JkTI-GidWaKC3QhID45YyTHGkiJRP6Kh755cHC17qc4B4HLo

Can you also connect the dots between these two pieces I ‘just happened’ to come across this morning?

Unlike Artur Pawlowski I am not aware of the ‘faith label’ of James O’Keefe or Michael Pearson. But Jesus did not seem concerned about what label we choose to take.

God, alone can judge the heart, (1 Sam. 16:7)

He saw the ‘Roman centurion’ “…. a devout man who feared God with all his household, gave alms generously to the people, and prayed continually to God. (Acts 10:2), and so sent Peter to let this man of integrity who was searching for the TRUTH know….. that his name was ‘Jesus’! Cornelius was already on the Way! He was already walking the walk of humility and integrity toward the TRUTH.

Jesus said, “I came to bear witness to the TRUTH. Whoever is of the TRUTH, hears my voice.”

The ‘Religious leaders’ by contrast often came in for the fiercest criticism from Jesus for talking the ‘shepherd’ talk but not walking the ‘shepherd’ walk.

“You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” (Jn.8:44)

Let us be careful to make sure we “Live Not By Lies” but according to the TRUTH the whole Truth and nothing but the Truth, so help us God, no matter how costly, inconvenient or uncomfortable discovering that Truth might be!

Next weekend we look forward to hosting at The Big Green House, a FREEDOM! retreat, where we help people uncover the lies that have bound them and with ‘the sword of the spirit which is the word of God’ witness how “the TRUTH will set you FREE! (Jn.8:22)

Hallelujah!

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Language is a funny thing. What I mean is, there can be a lot of humor in the translation of one language to another!

I just came across an interview I gave in S.Korea in 1999 that was published in ‘Reader’s Life’ in both Korean and in English. As I read the English version of what the Korean interviewer heard me say, it brought a smile to my face not because something was lost in translation, but because something fresh was revealed!

The opening paragraph quoted me as saying,

“We need a smile for resolution. God gave men smile. Song and smile effectively resolve every conflict.”

These comments relate to the song Good Morning’ Dad which proved to be very relevant for Korea. Korea is best known for the conflict between the North and the South and yet Korea means, “The Land of the Morning Calm.”

When each morning we awaken with the song in our hearts……

“I open my eyes I see your smiling face warming my heart,

“Good Mornin’ Dad’

I open my ears I hear your word of grace warming my heart,

“Good Mornin’ Dad’“

……….Then the chorus becomes our experience….

“All my hope and all my fears all my joys and all my tears get swallowed up and swept away.”

…….and we enter, ‘The Land of the Morning Calm’

As I read these words from the article again this week I felt I was prophesying to myself (and to you?) from 22 years ago!

“We need a smile for resolution. God gave men smile. Song and smile effectively resolve every conflict.”

We certainly need some ‘Resolution’ in our 2021 world where so much ‘craziness’ remains not only unresolved, but to the natural eye less and less likely to find a good resolution anytime soon!

But to the eye of faith Jesus is the smiling face of God hanging on the tree to bring hope, a hope that finds an initial fulfillment three days later as that smile bursts out of the grave as a song that continues to be heard by faith throughout creation from our singing savior’s position of ascended glory!

Jesus had sung Psalm 22 many times.

The one who sang in suffering, “My God my God why have you forsaken me.” (22:1)

……..now sings in triumph,

“I will declare your name to my brothers and sisters;
    in the assembly I will sing your praises.” (22 :22 quoted in Heb.2:12)

I reflected again on the masking issue which is about something much deeper than a mere ‘virus’

It is an attempt by the ‘father of lies’ to destroy those who have been made in the image and likeness of a good God, by dividing and conquering them through the age old weapons of fear and shame.

The truth is the real enemy was disarmed and conquered at the cross. (Col.2:15) His defeat is inevitable under the feet of those who by faith, have seen the smile, and know it cannot be obscured, and have heard the song, and know it cannot be silenced.

We join our smile (‘halel’ literally,‘shine’) and our song with his …...Hallelu-jah!

May we like the apostle Paul each have a De – Mask -us Road experience, as we too see ‘a light from heaven‘ shine around us in order that we too might shine as “a light to the Gentiles” in these difficult days. (Acts 9 and 13)

Although we are engaged in the battle of the ages, we are not fighting for victory but from a victory that has already been secured and is now being played out on the stage of our Father’s setting and in line with his perfect timing.

This morning I went for a bike ride and found myself singing the song.

As I came to the line “all my tears…. get swallowed up and swept away” I glanced to the side to see at that very moment, this little shrine under the bridge.

I had stopped to look at it a few days earlier. Painted on the column were the words, “This life isn’t easy for any of us.” I had stooped down to read the note from a heartbroken mother describing how she had come into her daughter’s bedroom only to tragically discover that she had shot herself in the chest. I paused for a few minutes, feeling their pain and uttering a sigh ‘too deep for words’ before proceeding on my way.

This morning the sound of the river reverberated under the bridge as it ‘swept’ through the narrows. It was a divine convergence of time and place, song and circumstance…..our ‘Dad’ whispering to me a confirmation and reassurance that indeed,

……. in the light and warmth of His loving smile, all of our ‘tears‘ will in the end be ‘swallowed up and swept away’.

“Song and smile effectively resolve EVERY conflict.”

P.S. In two weeks time we look forward to seeing ‘the victory of the cross’ further made manifest as captives are set free at FREEDOM! here at the Big Green House! Please join us in prayer….or in person, paulkyle.org/events

P.S. 1 Dave asked for the words to “A Rising Sun” So click on the song again and then follow along……..

A rising sun o’er sparkling dew
Hillside clothed in yellow hue
Skipping lambs, a wisp of cloud in boundless blue
All these blessings on us fall
But the greatest gift of all
Is to know, the one from whom
These blessings flow

A painting done, a life portrayed
A new song sung, a truth conveyed
A garden planted, harvest comes, a banquet laid
All these blessings on us fall
But the greatest gift of all
Is to know, the one from whom
These blessings flow

O to know as we are known
By the one from whom we’ve come
And to love as we’ve been loved
‘til we become…….Son of God and Son of Man
The fulfillment of God’s plan
Peace on earth, good will to men, the King is come

A faith-filled wife, a jewel rare
Wise and strong beyond compare
Anamcara, closest friend, one life we share
All these blessings on us fall
But the greatest gift of all
Is to know, the one from whom
These blessings flow

A father’s joy a mother’s son
Bound by love his freedom comes
Watch him find the road of truth that leads him hone
All these blessings on us fall
But the greatest gift of all
Is to know, the one from whom
These blessings flow

O to know as we are known
By the one from whom we’ve come
And to love as we’ve been loved
‘til we become……..Son of God and Son of Man
The fulfillment of God’s plan
Peace on earth, good will to men, the King is come

A kindly neighbor, nasty boss
We nurse a hope, we grieve a loss
The rough and smooth the sour and sweet the stone and moss
All these blessings on us fall
But the greatest gift of all
Is to know, the one from whom
These blessings flow

A pain uncovered long concealed
The root exposed, a wound is healed
Debt forgiven, captive freed, true self is sealed
All these blessings on us fall
But the greatest gift of all
Is to know, the one from whom
These blessings flow

O to know as we are known
By the one from whom we’ve come
And to love as we’ve been loved
‘til we become……..Son of God and Son of Man
The fulfillment of God’s plan
Peace on earth, good will to men, the King is come

A turtle found, a child’s delight
The puzzle solved, a fresh insight
A story told of how she journeyed to the light
All these blessings on us fall
But the greatest gift of all
Is to know, the one from whom
These blessings flow

To find the hand that fits the glove
The parting hymn with one we’ve loved
The perfect time to catch the wave and rise above
All these blessings on us fall
But the greatest gift of all
Is to know, the one from whom
These blessings flow

O to know as we are known
By the one from whom we’ve come
And to love as we’ve been loved
‘til we become…….Son of God and Son of Man
The fulfillment of God’s plan
Peace on earth, good will to men, the King is come

P.S. 2. Just as the last blog went out, Eugene sent this link to an interview with Rod Dreher. So many resonances with recent blogs…Hope, Truth, Trust, Courage, Persecution, Standing, Family etc. etc. Worth listening to….every last minute! We’re ordering his book, “Live Not By Lies” Thank you Eugene!