In peace the profit. Denying the shelter from each storm my heart is forced to hunker. This is not a covenant of self-reliance but granted by belief upon those things beyond my own doing, trying or reckoning. Trust when earned allots for unfettered actions, especially those which frighten to raise awareness of momentum and importance. what deadline or overwhelming force may be welcomed without some dependence upon powers willing and able to defer or stops its impact? What then is salvation without deliverance from all the aspects that transcend personal capacity for control?

Loving because that is the purpose of my making. Not a process of counsel, sound advice or criticism but the love which accompanies a true desire to listen. Having known in belief that the changes will be made, regardless of observation at a time and method beyond my own kindling. How can I love them the way that I would want to be loved without having been acquainted with that experience of having been sufficiently loved myself? This process entails sharing all that we have already been given, having emptied ourselves of self to accommodate the filling of Spirit’s characteristic power and presence.

That elucidates the need for diminution. As the expectant lead of my life perpetuated in the self or ego realizes there is no pathway from here to the hereafter through self-perpetuated or deployed means the immediate retreat to self-deprecation ensues. Having been conveyed to the cross for payment, my flesh died the death that my sin earned that I may be freed from the second death. I perished on Calvary, thankfully renewed to live a life emptied of this palsy having been filled by choice and calling with the PERSON of the Holy Spirit. You may call Him Ghost but that fails to recognize His Divinity and feelings. As to quench HIS participation is a prohibitive action.

Now I live in joy, not my own joy of receiving those things I am after but having received , but the joy of knowledge in coming promise of eternal life through glorification of the Saints before Christ Jesus. Those things which I can neither imagine nor describe are ironically the things upon which I depend most. I don’t know what is coming yet in that Trust I am more robustly and completely fulfilled than through the realization of all my own intention or objective. this is Grace, to have this second chance and this opportunity guided and driven by God’s direction, power and imagination. More than making up for any deficiency my inadequacy proffered.