UNMISTAKABLE

FROM THE VERY FIRST TIME YOU REACHED OUT TO ME__I HAVE NOT FORGOTTEN THE SMELL OF YOU.
HOW OFTEN I HAVE TOLD MY HUSBAND__
IF I HAD TO PICK HIM OUT OF A LINE-UP OF MEN__
AND I WAS BLINDFOLDED__ALL HE WOULD HAVE TO DO IS BREATHE ON ME__
THE SCENT OF HIS BREATH IS UNMISTAKABLE __
IT IS AS MY VERY OWN BREATH
BREATHE ON ME LORD__
AND I AM NOT ALONE__
I AM CONFIDENT IN FAITH, BECAUSE OF YOUR PRESENCE.
BREATHE ON ME LORD__
AND I SOAR THE HEIGHTS OF JOYOUS FAITH__
I AM RENEWED AND MADE FULLY ALIVE!

BREATHE ON ME OH BREATH OF GOD
LET THE SMELL OF ME
BE THE UNMISTAKABLE PRESENCE OF YOUR LIFE IN MINE
BE GLORIFIED ___ Dove ___

IN THE SILENCE OF YOUR PRESENCE

LORD__I'M ONLY AS NEAR YOU AS MY OWN THOUGHTS OF YOU.

AS CLOSE AS MY BEATING HEART.

NOW AS I BOW MY HEAD, AWARE OF EACH PRICELESS MEASURED BREATH,

I THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE, FOR LISTENING, AND KNOWING IT BECAUSE OF FAITH.

THAT FAITH THAT HAS COME FROM HEARING YOU.

THAT STILL, AND NEARLY SILENT VOICE THAT SPEAKS CLEAR AND PLAINLY IN MY HEART.

YOU HAVE MADE IT SO LORD. YOU HAVE GIVEN ME EYES TO SEE AND EARS TO HEAR, WHAT I ONCE COULD NOT.

NOW IN THIS QUIET PLACE__THE NEARNESS OF YOU, PRESSES THE OIL OF GLADNESS FROM ME.

MAY IT BE A SACRIFICE OF PRAISE TO YOU MY LORD. __ Dove __

Holy Spirit Come and Fill this Place

O BLESSED TRINITY
EXCEEDING ALL BEING, DEITY AND GOODNESS
TEACH US YOUR HEAVENLY WISDOM
LEAD US TO THE ROCK
YES, TO YOUR MYSTICAL HEIGHTS
WHICH EXCEEDS LIGHT
AND MORE THAN EXCEEDS KNOWLEDGE
YOU ARE THE ONLY BEGOTTEN ONE
HIDDEN IN DAZZLING OBSCURITY
AND SECRET SILENCE
ABSOLUTE AND UNCHANGEABLE
SURCHARGING OUR BLINDED INTELLECTS
WITH UTTERLY IMPALPABLE AND INVISIBLE GLORY
YES, YES  GLORY THAT EXCEEDS ALL BEAUTY
BLESSED IS YOUR DIVINE SILENCE
TEACH US TO EXERCISE FAITH THERE
IN MYSTIC CONTEMPLATION
APART FROM OUR HUMAN LOGIC
TEACHING US TO REST IN FAITH
NOT STRAINING FOR UNION WITH YOU
BUT, REALIZING
THAT WE ARE THE WORKMANSHIP
OF YOUR HANDS
AND THAT WE CANNOT CONTAIN
THAT WHICH EXCEEDS ALL EXISTENCE
SEAL OUR LIPS AND FIERY TONGUES
SET GUARD UPON OUR MOUTHS
FROM ALL THAT SPEWS FROM THE LOWEST ORDER OF OUR BEING
FROM ALL UNGODLY DELUSIONS
WHICH ARE BIRTHED OUT OF THE IGNORANCE
OF YOUR DIVINE TRUTH
TRUTH THAT IS BEYOND
ALL POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE DISTINCTIONS
THAT WHICH THE CARNAL MIND CANNOT RECEIVE 
FATHER,  NO MAN CAN COME TO YOU
UNLESS YOU DRAW THEM FIRST
YOU ALONE CALL US BY NAME
THE NAME THAT OUR SPIRIT KNOWS
AND WILL ANSWER TO
HELP OUR UNBELIEF,  GIVE US EARS TO HEAR 
LEAD US UPON THE PATH OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
FOR YOUR NAMES SAKE
UP THAT HOLY ASCENT
FORSAKING, EVEN, DIVINE ENLIGHTENMENT'S
VOICES AND HEAVENLY UTTERANCES
PLUNGE US INTO THE DARKNESS OF UNKNOWING
THAT WE MIGHT, BY FAITH, CRY OUT
AND COME TO KNOW
THE IMMEASURABLE HEIGHTS, DEPTHS,
AND WIDTHS OF YOUR BEING __
YES, THROUGH THE DARKNESS
INTO THE LIGHT OF YOUR SON,  FATHER
YOUR INVISIBLE SPIRIT
MADE MANIFEST IN HIM
WHO HAS COME TO DWELL IN US
THAT INCOMPREHENSIBLE PRESENCE
WHICH PROSTRATES MY OWN HEART AND MIND
LEAVING ME IN HELPLESS ABANDON
FOR YOU ARE TRULY UNKNOWABLE
UNLESS HOLY SPIRIT REVEALS
YOUR HOLINESS,  YOUR FATHOMLESS LOVE
SO THAT I CAN MEASURE
HOW FAR THE FALL, IN EONS PAST
GIVING YOU THE PRAISE AND GLORY
DUE YOU,  FOR REDEEMING ME FROM IT
I AM LOST IN IMAGERY
AND ALLEGORIC SYMBOLISM
UNTIL YOU LET ME SOAR UPWARD
BEYOND MY INTELLECTUAL CONCEPTIONS
REDUCE ME TO ABSOLUTE DUMBNESS
OF SPEECH AND THOUGHT
EMBRACE ME LORD WITH YOUR TRUTH
WITH YOUR OWN TRANSCENDENT FAITH
FOR YOU ARE THE LIFE OF THE LIFE OF MY SOUL _____
Your handmaiden, your daughter __Dove   10/13/96

My Song in the Night

THE WELL SPRING OF LONGING

“The whole life of the good Christian is a holy longing. What you desire ardently, as yet you do not see…by withholding of the vision, God extends the longing, through longing he extends the soul, by extending he makes room in it. Let us long because we are to be filled…that is our life, to be exercised by longing. ”
~ St. Augustine

LORD__YES, THERE IS ALWAYS LONGING FOR YOU IN MY SOUL__I AM EASILY FILLED TO OVERFLOWING OF YOU.
YOU WELL UP IN ME__MY CUP RUNS OVER.
HOW IS IT THAT I CONTINUE TO LONG WHEN I AM FULL?

"IT IS THE LONGING THAT GIVES RISE TO THE EVERLASTING SPRINGS OF LIFE__AND THESE SPRINGS ARE THE PRAISES OF SUCH LONGING.
FROM GLORY TO GLORY, SUCH LONGING SHALL BRING YOU INTO EVEN MORE LONGING.
IT WAS SUCH THAT CALLED ME APART INTO MY FATHER'S PRESENCE__IT WAS THE ALPHA THAT SPRANG INTO THE OMEGA.
COME AND DRINK OF THE WATERS OF LIFE THAT SPRING FORTH IN LONGING UNTO PRAISE
PARTAKE OF THE FULLNESS OF EVER INCREASING LONGING."

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Lord deliver me from the flesh that would seek to sacrifice
to somehow validate my longing for You
You only require that I turn to you in my longing.

Now in this eternal moment,  I am concious of your
forever love. 

In reality, it is Your longing for me to simply
"COME" in obedience to the Holy Spirit
that would reveal Your mind and heart in
sweet fellowship of mercies and grace.

Bless Your Body Lord;  Make us one in
covenant and surrender, from one eternal
moment to the next.  Amen

PROCRASTINATION AND COMPROMISING THE TRUTH

LORD__CARRY ME AWAY BEYOND MYSELF TODAY. THAT PLACE WHERE HUMAN LOVE CANNOT FLY.
MY LOVE TRIES TO BE WISE__SENSIBLE AND CALCULATING. CAREFUL AND COMPROMISING__AVOIDING CONFRONTATION AT THE EXPENSE OF DENYING YOUR HOLINESS AND UNCOMPROMISING WORD.
THE TRUE NATURE OF YOUR LOVE DELIVERS ME FROM THE SUBTLENESS OF PERSONAL AFFECTIONS__IT DOES NOT HAVE THE AROMA OR TASTE OF DUTY, USEFULNESS, OR REWARD__NOTHING BEYOND THE FACT THAT I LOVE YOU.
YOU HAVE BEEN CHASTISING ME IN YOUR LOVE__ OVER MY TENDENCY TO PROCRASTINATE IN WHAT I KNOW IS YOUR WORD CONCERNING SERVICE__(((AM I OF REAL VALUE?))) ....Am I Real?!!!! I AM SO HAPPY!!!! THANK YOU FOR SHOWING ME THIS!!!!___
YOU ARE THE GREAT ((( I AM))) !!!!

THE ENEMY OF MY SOUL IS ALWAYS BRINGING MY THOUGHTS TO DOUBT, SAYING__” AM I?”LORD__ I SEE! IT’S TIME FOR ME TO COME OUT OF THE DESERT OF THE TRIALS OF WHO I AM__EVEN AS YOU WERE TESTED CONCERNING WHO YOU WERE.
IT IS THE ACCEPTANCE OF WHO WE ARE IN YOU THAT GIVES US THE FAITH AND CONFIDENCE TO TALK THE TALK AND WALK THE WALK OF FAITH.

I SHOULD BE DOING__(((FAITH)))
IN MY THINKING__MY RELATIONSHIPS__MY RESPONSIBILITIES__MY WORSHIP
IN THE SIMPLE, EVERYDAY HUMAN THINGS THAT LET YOUR TOUCH BE MADE KNOWN__YOUR VOICE__THE WORD BEING MADE ALIVE IN ME.

THIS IS THE EVIDENCE OF MY ABANDONMENT TO YOU__AND MY REST.

NOT MY PERSONAL HOLINESS__CAUGHT IN THE NET OF HOW OTHERS PERCEIVE ME__OR EVEN A MORBID SENSE OF FEAR THAT YOU LORD ARE NOT PLEASED IN WHAT I SAY OR DO.

LET YOUR LOVE SO FREE ME OF EVER DOUBTING YOUR LOVE IN ANY WAY__

AM I ABANDONED TO YOUR LOVE?__DO I TRUST FOR YOUR LOVE?__CAN I FLY ON WINDS OF FAITH, SOARING THE HEIGHTS__WITHOUT THE LEAST THOUGHT OF THE MOTIONS OF WINGS__FEELING THE RUSH OF THE THERMALS LIFTING ME HIGHER, HIGHER STILL?

LORD__LET MY HOPE IN YOU BE PURIFIED__NOT IN THE STRAIN OF PROVING ANYTHING__BUT THE EARNEST DESIRE OF DYING TO MYSELF__NOT IN THE WORK OF DYING__BUT THE GRACE.I AM MORE THAN A CONQUEROR__BECAUSE OF YOUR LOVE. ____Dovesong

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BE STILL AND KNOW

THE I AM ___ HE IS

I CAN REMEMBER AS A SMALL GIRL, LOOKING UP INTO THE SKY AND THINKING, "WHAT ARE THOSE LIGHTS DOING UP THERE?" TO THIS DAY, THE SKY LOOKS FLAT TO ME. NOT DEEP AND DIMENSIONAL. I'VE NEVER SAW THE POINT OF EXPLORING TO THE EXTENT THAT SOME DO. I'M MORE IN AWE OF THEIR DRIVE TO VENTURE INTO OUTER SPACE THAN I AM IN SPACE ITSELF. MAYBE I SHOULD RE FRAZE WHAT I JUST SAID. I AM COMPLETELY IN AWE OF GOD'S CREATION, IN ALL DOMAINS, THE HEAVENS INCLUDED. BUT THE GREATER MYSTERY OF UNCHARTED SPACE THAT I FIND TO BE WORTHY OF EXPLORATION, IS THE HUMAN SOUL.

THE ABOVE PICTURE IS VIEWING THE EARTH THROUGH THE EYES OF THOSE IN OUTER DARKNESS. JUST GIVE IT SOME THOUGHT__WE ARE ABLE TO SEE THIS MIND BOGGLING SIGHT NOW FROM SPACE. WHY DO WE LOOK FOR IT BEYOND THE BOUNDS OF PRECIOUS LIFE ON THIS PLANET? WE'D ONLY INFECT ANOTHER LIKE OUR OWN WITH ALL THE DISREGARD WE HAVE FOR THIS ONE.

THE SKY, HAS NEVER BEEN UP TO ME, THE UNCONQUERED GALAXIES OF THE MIND AND HEART IS UP. THOUGH THERE IS ORDER IN OUTER SPACE, IT IS THE CONTROLLED CHAOS OF SOMETHING THAT WENT REALLY WRONG IN IONS PAST. IT IS ALSO THE BIRTHING GROUND OF GOD THE CREATOR'S DIVINE WORK OF CONCILIATION AND ORDER BEING RESTORED.

EVEN SO, THE FURTHER REACHES OF THE INNER SPACE OF MAN, FAR SUPERSEDE THE EXPANDING SKIES ABOVE US. THE OUTPOSTS OF SPACE ARE FILLED WITH PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS THAT WERE CAST OUT INTO WHAT I UNDERSTAND TO BE "OUTER DARKNESS". AND ONE DAY, KINGS AND PRIESTS OF THE LORD, ALONG WITH SAINTS MADE PERFECT WILL RULE THESE STRONGHOLDS NOW UNDER SIEGE BY THE CAST OUT god OF THE AIR.

IN A BEGINNING, THE ELOHIM GOD CAME TO SET HIS WORK IN THE MIDST OF THIS FORMLESS AND VOID PLANET THAT WAS A RESULT OF SOME CATASTROPHIC EVENT WHICH CAUSED THE EARTH TO BE CAST FROM IT'S ORIGINAL PLACE AND STATE, INTO THE DARK REGIONS WHERE IT IS NOW.

IT WAS THE FIRST ADAM RACE, WHICH WAS PLANTED IN THE GARDEN OF GOD UPON THE EARTH, THAT WERE CHOSEN AS THE SEED TO RESTORE THE NUMBERLESS HOSTS OF BEINGS THAT WERE A PART OF THE CATASTROPHE.

THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THE UNTOLD DAMAGE TO GOD'S ORDER, WAS QUARANTINED ON EARTH, AND IN THE LIVING GOD'S PLAN WAS THE CONCILIATION OF ALL THINGS IN THE END OF THE AGES. CHRIST CAME TO SET UP THE BATTLE LINE, AND HIS BANNER OVER US IS LOVE. SATAN WAS CAST OUT OF THE EARTH, IN WAYS WE ARE NOT AWARE OF WHEN CHRIST WAS CRUCIFIED.

I DO NOT CLAIM TO KNOW OR UNDERSTAND THE PATIENCE OF THE LIVING GOD. FOR IN THE RESTORATION OF HIS CREATION, HE IS ALWAYS WORKING TO CONCILIATE THE HEART OF MAN, WHICH WAS THE ONE DOMAIN THAT LUCIFER TRIED TO TAKE UNTO HIMSELF, BUT THE ETERNAL CREATOR GOD, IN THE ALPHA AND OMEGA OF HIS BEING HAS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING MADE ALL THINGS SUBJECT TO FUTILITY, BY REASON OF HIS OWN FORE-KNOWLEDGE AND WILL. IT WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED BY THE VICTORIOUS SETTING UP OF HIS KINGDOM IN THE DEEPEST REGIONS OF THE HEARTS OF MEN. ONE SOUL AT A TIME, HOW EVER LONG IT TAKES, IT IS NO TIME AT ALL TO OUR GOD. FOR HE HIMSELF IS THE LIGHT THAT SHINES IN US REVEALING THIS TRUTH. WHEN THE HUMAN HEART AND MIND IS SET FREE THROUGH REDEMPTION OF THE BLOOD______

REDEMPTION OF THE BLOOD? THERE IS POWER IN THE BLOOD. I'VE HEARD SERMONS ON IT, SANG SONGS ABOUT IT, ASKED GOD QUESTIONS ABOUT IT___EXACTLY WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO FIND SALVATION THROUGH THE POWER OF THE SHED BLOOD OF CHRIST.

WELL FIRST OF ALL WE ARE NOT PRIVY TO THE DETAILS OF THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE SPIRIT OF FATHER GOD AND THE WILLFUL VAIN AND MATTER FORMED CREATURE CALLED LUCIFER WHO WOULD, AND DOES WANT TO SET HIMSELF UP TO BE GOD. YES, GOD OF THE HEAVENS, GOD OF THE EARTH, AND GOD OF THE HUMAN HEART.

HE KNOWS THAT HE CAN NEVER RULE THE HEAVENS AS GOD IF HE DOES NOT RULE THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF MAN FIRST. AFTER ALL, HE CANNOT RULE IN SPIRIT, HE HAS NONE, IT IS DEAD. AND WHEN HE SEES A HEART THAT IS SURRENDERED TO LOVE, AND GOD IS LOVE AND LIFE ETERNAL___ HE WILL DO ALL HE CAN TO SEEK OUT THAT SOUL TO KILL AND DESTROY IT__BECAUSE LOVE IS EVERYTHING THAT LUCIFER IS NOT. NOR IS IT IN HIM TO BE ANYTHING OTHER THAN WHAT HE IS.

IN A BEGINNING, WHAT EVER HE DID TO CAUSE THE DISRUPTION OF THE HEAVENS, WHAT EVER HE DID IN THE GARDEN OF GOD, IT CONGEALED AND EFFECTED THE LIGHT OF SPIRIT IN THE ADAM RACE, WHO FELL INTO THE DARK REGIONS OF THE MIND AND SOUL. THE TRINITY OF GODS IMAGE OF HIM WAS DISRUPTED THROUGH DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD'S WORD, AND THEIR OWN UNDERSTANDING AND INTERPRETATION OF IT, ___ THEY LISTENED TO A STRANGE VOICE AND WAS DECEIVED. THEY COULD NO LONGER SEE AND HEAR SPIRIT, THEY WERE SUDDENLY LOST TO THEMSELVES, AND TO GOD. THEIR SHAME EXPOSED THEM, THEIR FEAR OF GOD EXPOSED THEM. TRUTH NO LONGER REMAINED, IT HAD GONE INTO CAPTIVITY. THEY CAME INTO BONDAGE, SERVING A STRANGE GOD.

THERE IS NO VICTORY, THERE IS NO RULE, THERE IS NO POWER GREATER THAN THAT OF THE SURRENDERED HEART, CLEANSED BY THE SHED BLOOD OF CHRIST.

FLESH AND BLOOD CANNOT ENTER INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

THIS IS NOT "THUS SAITH THE LORD." BUT TO ME, THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE THAT LUCIFER PRESENTED TO GOD, WAS, "YOU TAKE ON MY IMAGE, AND WE'LL SEE JUST HOW LONG YOU REMAIN GOD, OR WHO REALLY HAS THE POWER TO RULE THE WILL. FOR I HAVE WILLED AGAINST YOU, AND YOU HAVE LOST THE WILL OF MANY TO MY ALLEGIANCE.

IT'S NOT A KNEW STORY__THE BIBLE IS FULL OF STORIES WHERE THE HUMAN HEART WAS CHALLENGED TO FORSAKE LOVE FOR VANITIES WILL. BUT LUCIFER'S GREATEST MISTAKE ((( UNDOING__FOR FROM THE VERY BEGINNING GOD HAD PURPOSE IN THE USING OF LUCIFER ))) WAS IN TEMPTING THE LORD GOD IN HIS HUMAN VULNERABLENESS.  THINKING CHRIST TO BE WEAK. AND PRESUMING THAT CHRIST WAS JUST ANOTHER CREATURE TO BE BROUGHT UNDER HIS POWER AND INFLUENCE. HE DID NOT COMPREHEND THAT THE FULLNESS OF THE GOD-HEAD DWELT IN GOD'S SON, HIS ONLY  PRE-EXISTING GOD BEGOTTEN SON, BIRTHED OUT OF HIS SPIRIT INTO HUMAN FLESH.

GOD HAD COME TO MEET HIS ARCH ENEMY ON HIS OWN SOIL, AND LUCIFER THINKING ON HIS TERMS.

GOD CAME IN THE PERSON OF HIS SON, TO CHANGE THE CONGEALED LIGHT OF HIS SPIRIT IN THE HEART AND MIND OF THE FALLEN ADAM RACE TO LIVING SPRINGS OF WATER, THAT WOULD WELL UP FROM WITHIN TO THE RESTORED LIFE OF GOD'S SPIRIT, THROUGH THE RESURRECTED NEW LIFE OF HIS FIRST BORN OF MANY BRETHREN, THE LAST ADAM.

THE RESTORATION OF HEARING AND SEEING___THOSE SEEDS THAT HAD LAID DORMANT IN MAN BECAUSE OF THE BONDAGE OF SIN UNTO DEATH.___NOW THROUGH CHRIST JESUS, THE LAW OF THE SPIRIT OF LIFE (( OF WHICH WE HAVE NO CLUE )) HAD AND HAS SUDDENLY COME TO SET MEN FREE FROM THE LAW OF SIN AND DEATH.

IT IS THE SPIRIT THAT GIVES LIFE, THE FLESH COUNTS AS NOTHING, IT BEGINS TO DIE THE DAY IT'S BORN. IT IS THE SPIRIT THAT IS ETERNAL.

IF THE SPIRIT OF GOD THE FATHER, WHO RAISED UP HIS SON JESUS FROM THE DEAD, IS LIVING IN YOU, AS HE HAS RAISED HIM UP FROM THE DEAD, HE WILL ALSO RAISE YOU UP, AND GIVE LIFE TO YOUR MORTAL BODIES THROUGH HIS SPIRIT, WHO LIVES IN YOU.

SO HERE I AM FACING THE FACT THAT IT IS NOT ME BECOMING A SPIRIT BEING WITH ETERNAL LIFE___BUT THE SCRIPTURE SAYS THAT THE POWER OF CHRIST'S RESURRECTION LIFE, WILL BE GIVEN TO MY MORTAL BODY THROUGH HIS SPIRIT LIVING IN ME. CHRIST COME IN FLESH. SOMETHING WONDERFULLY BEYOND MY COMPREHENSION HAS TO CHANGE IN ME, TO CHANGE MY MORTAL BODY.

WELLLLLLLLLLL___THAT'S A HOWDY DO TO ME___AND KINDA A HAIR IN MY BISCUIT. HERE I AM IN MY MORTAL BODY, HAVE ALL THESE INFIRMITIES, FIGHTING DEMONS OF GUILT, DOUBT, UNBELIEF, AND DESPAIR, IN THIS BODY THAT I SAY I HAVE GIVEN OVER TO THE RESURRECTED CHRIST___

LEAN NOT TO YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING! ?

FAITH, TRUST, SURRENDER! ?

YES AND AMEN! JUST LIKE THE SON OF THE LIVING GOD DID. RELEASING THE WILL, LEARNING BY CHOICE TO SURRENDER TO THE WILL OF HIS FATHER IN THE FACE OF THAT LIAR WHO PERPETUALLY CHALLENGED CHRIST CONCERNING WHO HE WAS. IT WAS AND IS THE INNER RECESSES OF THE ETERNAL HEART OF GOD, THE ETERNAL WORD, THE ETERNAL SPIRIT, THAT COULD NOT BE DESTROYED. THAT PART OF THE SON WHICH HAD NO BEGINNING OR END___THAT PART WHICH WAS STEADFAST IN THE FAITH, KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE OF SPIRIT. THE I AM___HE IS!LOOK TO YOUR HEART, LOOK UP, FOR WHOM THE SON SETS FREE, IS FREE INDEED. CHRIST IN YOU, YOUR HOPE OF GLORY.

 

HEAVEN'S LITTLE GLOW-BIRD

SO MANY TIMES, DURING A WALK, OR ON A PARTICULAR OUTING, THERE WILL BE THE SONG OF A BIRD, ALL BY ITSELF, AND I HAVE THE DISTINCT FEELING IT IS JUST FOR ME.

I FIND MYSELF CARRYING ON A CONVERSATION WITH THE BIRD, MOSTLY ME JUST THANKING IT FOR THE JOY IT BRINGS TO MY HEART.

NOT TO LONG AGO, WHEN I WAS HAVING ONE OF THOSE MELANCHOLY TIMES. JUST OUTSIDE MY WINDOW, THIS BEAUTIFUL, ONE OF A KIND BIRD, I HAVE NEVER SEEN, OR SEEN SENSE, LANDED RIGHT NEAR THE LEDGE AND BEGAN SINGING A SONG THAT FILLED MY SOUL WITH SUCH PRAISE AND GRATITUDE,

I KNEW IT WAS A GIFT OF LOVE TO ME. I TURNED JUST FOR A MOMENT, AND IT WAS GONE.

IT WAS MY LITTLE GLOW BIRD, IT BROUGHT SUCH LIGHT TO MY SOUL THAT DAY. ISN'T IT JUST LIKE THE LORD, TO LAVISH UPON US HIS GREAT LOVE. I HADN'T EVEN THOUGHT TO GO TO HIM TO HELP ME OVERCOME MY SADNESS, YET HE WAS TOUCHED WITH MY SORROWS__AS ONLY THE MAN OF SORROWS KNEW__AND COMFORTED ME IN A WAY THAT WAS UNMISTAKABLE__A BIRD'S SWEET SONG.

LOVE BEARS, BELIEVES, HOPES, AND ENDURES ALL THINGS

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long and is kind, love does not envy: love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth: bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

for we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part will be done away

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. for now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. I Corinthians 13

LOVE OF THE AGES

THE LOVE OF THE AGES___
GOD OF HEAVEN AND OF EARTH
GOD WHO BROUGHT MY LIFE TO BIRTH

YOU TURNED MY DARKNESS INTO LIGHT
YOU BLESSED ME WITH YOUR SPIRIT'S SIGHT

THAT I MIGHT JOURNEY AND TO KNOW
THE LOVE OF AGES, GRACE AND FLOW

FROM AGE TO AGE, YOUR RHAPSODY
YOUR TRUTH AND SPIRIT COME TO ME

THOUGH GALAXIES RING WITH HEAVEN'S SONG
DEEP IN MY HEART I SING ALONG

WITH HEAVENLY HOSTS AND ANGELS BE
 I'LL PRAISE YOU LORD ETERNALLY