Tweets - August 27th - Pursue Justice

If you don't want your nation burned to the ground or weighed down by the pressure of heaven, then pursue justice. When you watch the waters rise and wash away the homes of those living in coastal regions, remember your deeds as a nation of the unjust cause, and pursue justice.

Depending on the severity and the consequence of the injustice, sometimes justice means you have to give away everything that you have to those who are being destroyed; sometimes justice means that you have to heal others at the cost of your own peace and comfort.

But in pursuing justice, you are on the path of forgiveness, and you might be permitted to live - you and your children. If you are not on the path of forgiveness, then you are on the path of destruction, and all that you cling to will be taken away from you by fire and by force.

Tweets - August 25th - Planting Flowers

Planting flowers in a garden. A few nights ago I was given both an affirmation and a rebuke in the same message. I was rebuked because I was not acknowledging my feelings.

I was talking about planting flowers, or maybe I was singing a song - I don't remember, but then I received both the affirmation and the rebuke by the bright angel.

A few weeks ago I met these 20/21 year old LGBTQ+ youth, and I was so amazed. It felt like a blessing sitting with them. They were quirky and gentle and themselves.

They shared their experiences, but nothing was too dark. I remember one said, "I just thought everyone liked who they like, but then I found out, 'NO, it's not that way'". They were like angels whose wings had not yet been clipped.

When I was their age, my wings had long been clipped, plucked, beaten, snapped, bloodied, and broken. I was nothing like those youth, and I perceive the wisdom in Christ's call on my life.

It seems we won't always have to wait for seeds to sprout. They were like flowers who were waiting to be planted in a Garden, whose soil is enriched, watered, and tended by its God.

Tweets - August 21st - God Wants

3 spacecrafts flew overhead at the same time in a triangular formation (12 , 6, and 9 o'clock positions from my point of view). This occurrence happened twice, on 2 different nights.

The spacecraft at 12 o'clock slowly became bright and slowly dimmed, then the spacecraft at 6 o'clock slowly became bright (with the same timing and luminous intensity) and slowly dimmed while the spacecraft at 9 o'clock dimmed out of sight.

There is nothing that happens to us that God does not want to happen to us. Saying, "God allows" is an incomplete statement. It is always true that "God wants", and in some cases, "God is doing".

Though this certainly does not mean that God delights in all things, but it does mean that sometimes gold (in its stubborn refusal to repent through loving justice) has to be burned and submerged so it can be refined and transformed into something valuable and eternal.

The message of the 3 spacecrafts, in summary, is that God truly is Love. There is nothing that happens to us that God does not want to happen.

For those of us who walk with God, there is nothing to worry about; there is nothing to look toward and be anxious of; we don't have to worry about what we will say or have; we don't have to worry about what we will do; we don't have to fear what is unknown to us; we never need to plan a siege, or consider our defense, or setup a scheme.

We are wounded because God led us in the direction to be wounded. We are sick because God planned and gave us over to sickness. God's hand is on us and with us, and we are never required nor expected to be afraid.

I know, it sucks - but it only sucks for a moment in time, and the Garden will be better off for it, I promise (according to God's promise). 

(Regarding all these things, I'm assuming we are not pursuing injustice, in which case we are simply receiving exactly what we deserve.)

We are who we are - we do not need to lie to ourselves about ourselves and we never need to plan to be someone or something else.

Understand yourself; do good in spite of your brokenness, and don't seek to be "unbroken". God repairs what we cannot repair for the sake of the Garden and the Glory of God - you just be yourself and pursue what is both loving and just.

As for those who cannot walk with God, you know the portion God has given to you (though you don't accept it as such).

There is everything to fear; there are a thousand things to worry about; a million things to consider - what will you say, what will you do, what will you eat, what will you wear, where is your help?!

Dig deep in yourself for your hope; prepare your defense; go get as many guns as you can; fortify your buildings with sand and steel; drape bedsheets over your wives and daughters; get ready to fight fight fight!!!

God is giving you exactly what God wants you to have; and fear, sadness, and anger have been made your portion. It is how God is saving you and the Earth.

There's that conflict in me where I see someone I've loved a long time in such awful pain, and I am both sad and joyful - sad because of their brokenness, and joyful because God is saving their life through destruction.

But I would so much rather you walk with God so that you can be saved without being destroyed; so I might receive double joy (in my selfish desire).