this is a good thing

  Oh, TASTE (sense, perceive) and SEE (enjoy, experience, consider, look) that YHVH is GOOD (beautiful, beneficial, choice, delightful, pleasing, sound, worthy, pure, sweet, best, gracious, handsome) How blessed (happy) is the one who seeks refuge (shelter, protection)  in Him. This morning, the Word spoke again: Anyone who "takes medicine" is agreeing that what is consumed or put into the body affects it. When you go out to a restaurant and thirty minutes later you are puking and have diarrhea, you automatically assume that "something I ate was not good."  This is acute cause and effect. Why, when the effect is cumulative and chronic, do we not assume the same?  We have a couple chickens named "the fasties". They are light brown leghorns and lay white eggs. When they were young, we noticed how fast they moved compared to the other chicks. They were nicknamed "big fastie" and "little fastie". One day I joked that I should feed my so...

Every living thing is able to teach, to connect us integrally to the Source of our life. Every degree of separation from the life that sustains us--animals, plants and relationships with others--is a missed opportunity to receive increased faith and confidence in the Provider. Yesterday morning, the Word spoke this truth to me. For a while now, my faith has declared that we are only receivers. If we do not acknowledge (receive) Every Good Thing (gifts offered to us from the hand of the Lord), we miss out on the fullness of it! Now, hearing Him again, this is the Word He fed me: "I am constantly working to care for you." Wow. What a simple but loaded statement. I suppose in my mind, He was appearing a lazy God, just standing by and allowing Good Things to come my way, especially if I’m “good”. NO. After I received that Word, the ruminating began. A mother is always at work. Nourishing, training, affirming, and working very hard toward those goals. There’s no “off duty” time. ...