God is at work in the big middle of it all. He sees the whole picture, from the beginning to the end. We only see the here and now. Sometimes I go to a mountain precipice overlooking a canyon. Almost always, hawks and bird-kind are flying in the canyon. From the canyon rim, I look down on them. If I were standing on the canyon floor, I would barely see them when looking up.

Perspective differs according to where you are viewing the thing. God views our lives from His perspective. He sees what we cannot see. He knows what we shall be when we have completed our journey and have become a trophy of His grace. It is hard to comprehend this during troubling moments. When discouraged with it all, we might think God is absent or not all that active. Frankly, though, we have no idea of what God is doing behind the scenes.

Yet, miracles are all around us if we look for them.

My writing is from a spiritual perspective. What I write is written from the viewpoint of a life hid close to its source. God is that Life Source for me. He is my closest companion. He is why I write this type of message. I desire to offer what I know to others, so they can access what I know, have learned, and experienced.

My innermost desire is to point you to God. A life hidden in God takes on meaning and purpose. It experiences beauty and wonderment as it redeems and restores. I want to live out the immediacy of how God is refining my nature and shaping me that He might use me through my life and writings.

Spiritual life transforms through a refreshing, invigorating process.

My spiritual journey reflects the heart of the matter. What God is doing in me is humbling, yet fulfilling, hard, yet freeing, uncertain, yet centered. God is changing me into a selfless created-being who shouldn’t need human praise and recognition, whose ultimate fulfillment is the joy and satisfaction of living in close relationship with Father God.

However, it doesn’t happen without trouble and struggle.

I began seeking God in my twenties. I have learned a lot during the intervening years, between then and now. The path of spiritual discovery is a process of learning and applying. The more I study and apprehend the content, the more I find layers of truth. The more I consider God, the more I realize that He wants me to live in intimate fellowship with Him. While the love of God is formulating in my heart, my spiritual relationship is being cultivated. This dynamic becomes something so alive that it has a great need to be shared.

God is eager to love on us.

Taking time to ‘be at one’ with God, to read His Word, pray openly, seek His heart, and to know Him with a degree of intimacy, comes with an ongoing pursuit to know Him. Frequent meditating and considering of spiritual truth and godly thought are necessities for this journey of faith. And, we begin to love Him back.

Each area applied in our spiritual development is expedient when a relationship with God is sought, found, and actualized. 

As a result of all this seeking, my spiritual life experienced a reversal. It morphed from doing to being. This reversal happened long before I read spiritual Greats who have come to this same conclusion (that validated my perceptions).

When ‘being’ comes first, with ‘doing’ as its outworking of faith, we live out of love for our Creator and love for His creation. His life of love is transfusing a change within our inner self into one of Christ-likeness born from Christ-love and God-awareness. (It is a beautiful way to live life–the best way, in my opinion.)

The joy becomes ours.

Living out of love for God causes spiritual living to become organic and fluid. Your life is not your own any more, though you have your daily responsibilities and future plans. You now know that that’s a given. Your plans will be interrupted at a moment’s notice sometimes as you listen to the Spirit and act upon what He says.

It’s not about us, it’s about Him. This truth will set you free from trying to control the circumstances in your life.

Get your trust on.

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