Tweets - October 12th thru 14th - Walking Alone

I needed to remind myself that I don't walk alone. I know that I don't walk alone, but I had to remind myself that God is with me in everything - traumatic events change you in unexpected and unanticipated ways, even for years.

I'm currently in Delaware. I went out to the end of a pier a few nights ago,  and a spacecraft flew. I didn't expect to see it as I wasn't discussing anything in particular - and I hadn't seen them fly since August I believe.

I've realized that I don't need to concern myself with anything. My worry is not God's worry. God has infinitely greater foresight than I do. So if God was ever concerned, it occurred a long time ago, and plans were set in motion to deal with whatever had been concerning God.

Since God is with me, and my flesh and the broken glass my bare feet walk on all belong to God, what is my concern? The liar, the salesman, and the false prophet - God saw them all coming a long time ago, and has been weaving them into the plan ever since.

People liken light to joy, but my light is not joyous. I live in a world where the things I want don't yet exist. I long for a people who haven't yet been born. God will never hand the Garden over to a people who'd wish to control it. So I'm gonna do my part, whatever that is.

I have ideas, but I'm not even about to walk anywhere alone. I am subtle; people mimic my behavior even when they don't intend to. This is why patience, mercy and forgiveness are of great importance, and why trying to control people is unnecessary and overall harmful.

We're really playing the long game here. I am a child in a Garden. Makes sense to me to rely on mercy rather than control, to wait for God (my Mother) rather than plan a siege. But this wouldn't sit well for a people, for adults, who fear and look forward and only see death.

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I am aware of my audience. Forgiveness is enduring. Forgiveness does not forgo transparency or justice, but it does precede these things.

People are often powerless, whether they recognize it or not, and so they have no other choice but to forgive when they see or receive injustice. Would you forgive if you had the REAL option and power to do something other than forgive? Believe who you are.

The downside is that people are without God and so walk alone, so any "justice" has to come from a court ordered decree or from a personal gun.

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I am unsatisfied with my last set of tweets. I was thinking out loud and I doubt anyone can really get anything of value from them.

Forgiveness is an act, it's how I know that God has forgiven me of my past behaviors (treating people in ways I'd never want them to treat me). When I was forgiven, I was shown jaw-dropping compassion - but I was not entrusted with as much as I am entrusted with now. That took time for me to care and be in a position to receive the things I've received. I would also need to suffer the consequences of my own actions - this requirement did not disappear because I had been forgiven. However, my burden was not as heavy, and I did not have to do all the repairing all by myself, but I had to do much of the work myself. (Just making right what was made wrong.)

Eventually, God will forgive the world; this will be evident when God saves the dead. My hope is that, through the kindling of God's judgment, people end up in a position that God can save them while they're still alive, so this world can be transformed into the perpetual Garden.

There is the other side of forgiveness that isn't so much an act, but is rather the letting hold of a grudge for an injustice committed. That's up to the person. Just be honest about your feelings. But if in spite, you lay a trap for the person you hold a grudge against, you shouldn't expect God to remove the trap before you.