Rebekah Pierce's Blog
2007 Oct 16 I have been doing a lot of thinking and meditating latel as life has been aggressive against me. Check out what came out of meditation for me last week. Tell me what you think. You don't have to believe in what I believe in, but you must admit that there is a higher power that guides our lives and destiny.
I am Joy
By Rebekah L. Pierce
God called me today, although I thought I was calling Him. I was pulled to my knees to pray – a tug on my heart and womanly intuition called me to Him. He directed me to James 1-2. I read it. I needed it. Something had been waiting there for me and it was this: “faith without works is dead.” I had long since come to believe and know that God won’t bless you until you show Him your Faith in action. It is about action.
So, I followed my reading with meditation and in my meditation, I saw myself swinging on a swing and I immediately felt the love of joy in action. You see, God was pushing me on that swing with His Joy, His love. I love to swing because it’s the only time one can fly without wings; it’s just your own sheer momentum and laughter. Laughter! I remembered that feeling as I watched God push me. I felt that feeling as God pushed me and I began to cry as I do now while writing this. God stopped the swing – just for a second – and he whispered in my ear, “I am Joy.”
“I am Joy!” That’s the message for you and me today. I cried – and cry – because my spirit has gotten the message and my heart has embraced it like love lost and then returned. They – Spirit and Heart – had been “counting all joy,” and I had almost forgotten. I – me – Him – we – are Joy. If you and I can hold onto that today and forever, when the world has taken its fill of us – when it has told us we are nothing – we have nothing – when it deceives us into lamenting what was not ours in the first place – God says, “I am Joy!” Repeat it to yourself, write it down on an index card – carry it in your purse, or keep it in that most sacred place – your Spirit. “I am Joy!” This is your Faith…this is your works. I am Joy!
~ Copyright © 2007 Rebekah L. Pierce
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Rebekah Pierce's Blog
2007 Oct 16 I have been doing a lot of thinking and meditating latel as life has been aggressive against me. Check out what came out of meditation for me last week. Tell me what you think. You don't have to believe in what I believe in, but you must admit that there is a higher power that guides our lives and destiny.
I am Joy
By Rebekah L. Pierce
God called me today, although I thought I was calling Him. I was pulled to my knees to pray – a tug on my heart and womanly intuition called me to Him. He directed me to James 1-2. I read it. I needed it. Something had been waiting there for me and it was this: “faith without works is dead.” I had long since come to believe and know that God won’t bless you until you show Him your Faith in action. It is about action.
So, I followed my reading with meditation and in my meditation, I saw myself swinging on a swing and I immediately felt the love of joy in action. You see, God was pushing me on that swing with His Joy, His love. I love to swing because it’s the only time one can fly without wings; it’s just your own sheer momentum and laughter. Laughter! I remembered that feeling as I watched God push me. I felt that feeling as God pushed me and I began to cry as I do now while writing this. God stopped the swing – just for a second – and he whispered in my ear, “I am Joy.”
“I am Joy!” That’s the message for you and me today. I cried – and cry – because my spirit has gotten the message and my heart has embraced it like love lost and then returned. They – Spirit and Heart – had been “counting all joy,” and I had almost forgotten. I – me – Him – we – are Joy. If you and I can hold onto that today and forever, when the world has taken its fill of us – when it has told us we are nothing – we have nothing – when it deceives us into lamenting what was not ours in the first place – God says, “I am Joy!” Repeat it to yourself, write it down on an index card – carry it in your purse, or keep it in that most sacred place – your Spirit. “I am Joy!” This is your Faith…this is your works. I am Joy!
~ Copyright © 2007 Rebekah L. Pierce
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