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Day 7: Christmas of The Heart

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Today I am going to FLY out of my COCOON.

But it is hard to say goodbye,

for I have a love hate relationship with it.

The hate part

is that it feels like ISOLATION,

as I have been with my THREE persons~

me, myself, and I.

But the LOVE part

is that I invited

 the other

THREE PERSONS 

into my cocoon,

who takes the "I" out of ISOLATION,

and puts it

In HIM,

which CHANGES everything,

because it is you who HE CHANGES.

  For watch out when

GOD,

JESUS,

and

THE HOLY SPIRIT

FLY into your COCOON,

you do grow WINGS.

For GOD does HIS best work in the dark,

because it is where

HIS LIGHT

beams so bright,

because there is

NO ONE else in the room.

Well I am prepared to FLY today.

I have my RAG DOLL. 

I have all my PROPS.

I have all my DECORATIONS.

I have all my FOLDERS.

I have all my SLIDES.

But it really has nothing to do with

ALL of these

external things,

as they are just extras

that have bursted from an overwhelmed

HEART

that has been sitting in a COCOON

with

JESUS~

THE BABY,

THE SHEPHERD,

THE RISEN CHRIST~

who took a walk from the CRADLE TO THE CROSS.

Really think about this down to your core,

and you will never be the same.

As I sit in the darkness of my COCOON,

it is where I grow WINGS.

One wing is

HOPE,

WHO came SWADDLED as a

 BABY in a manger.

One wing is

PEACE,

WHO came dressed as a SHEPHERD. 

But not just an ordinary SHEPHERD,

but a GOOD SHEPHERD.

For how GOOD is GOOD.

Actually

BETTER than GOOD,

IMMEASURABLY MORE

if that is all possible.

But

 NOTHING is IMPOSSIBLE

with GOD.

For THIS SHEPHERD has lead me to

 STILL WATERS

that

quench my thirst with

the PEACE THAT TRANSCEND ALL UNDERSTANDING.

One wing is

JOY,

an EVERLASTING JOY

which means just that~

EVERLASTING,

NEVER ENDING,

FOREVER.

All because of the wing of

LOVE,

but not just a mushy gushy kind of LOVE,

but a LOVE

that LOVES IMMEASURABLY MORE.

For THIS LOVE

SWADDLED JESUS on a CROSS,

with HIS ARMS outstretched

that screams

I LOVE YOU!

And this I LOVE YOU

is drenching me with TEARS right now,

because it this

LOVE that has RELEASED me

from

HOPELESSNESS,

PEACELESSNESS

and JOYLESSNESS,

because it was in

 my COCOON

of

HOPELESSNESS

PEACELESSNESS

and JOYLESSNESS,

where I met

HIS LOVE.

So today I will

FLY

with women who I know and

women who I will meet for the very

first time,

and oh it will be a PARTY.

Because when TWO or MORE are gathered,

and the TWO or MORE

are not my three persons,

but a

GOD,

JESUS,

and the HOLY SPIRIT,

you never know what is going to happen.

But oh how GOD does.

Are you ready to FLY?

Be a BUTTERFLY,

and use your wings,

because then you will FLY HIGHER

than you could ever imagine,

for

HIS HOPE,

HIS PEACE,

HIS JOY

and LOVE

will be your GUIDE.

And when you

 KNOW

that

REAL HOPE,

REAL PEACE,

REAL JOY,

and

REAL LOVE

is

JESUS,

you feel light as a feather,

because

HE takes all your burdens

as a GIFT.

“HE must increase, but I must decrease"

(John 3:30).

I pray that you experience

A FRESH START

and

LIVE ANEW

because of

THE HOPE

 that

THE BABY BIRTHED

and

THE JOY

that was BIRTHED

 from the RISEN CHRIST

and

THE LOVE

that takes you into

FOREVER

with

THE PEACE

that

leads you to

STILL WATERS

because

WHO IS THIS BABY?

HE IS

"THE SHEPHERD BOY"

(listen to the song below)


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