THE UPRISING

a new year up ahead - and ahead a time to take territory - and to thrive.  tonight i'll bring in the new while walking the inner-city neighborhood upon which a 24-7 goodness revolution is coming. i want the gatekeepers of the dark to feel the rumble from an upcoming light.

• Preach the gospel to the poor

• Proclaim release to the captives

• Recovery of sight to the blind

• Set free the downtrodden

• Proclaim the favorable year of the Lord

                "To live is Christ & to die is Gain"

There's this wild beauty in me... even in my 'not-yet perfectedness'.  Just like there's also a wild beauty in the people that surround me, both family & strangers alike. I'm compelled to seek out thier stories & thier hearts & to discover the way of them, should they allow it. Walking the city streets & brushing past all the people is like coming upon moving DaVincis & Dalis, Monets & Picassos, Calders & Chihulys great & small. It's hard not to stop & stare. Something inside me wants to reach out & touch them. Although, like with most masterpieces, I know it's not usually allowed....
 

talking to God this morning about the mood swings that come with pms & fasting & this season's unexpected complications. His only reply is to remind me that His rest & peace is available to me no matter what the outward circumstances are, even though at times i might have to jump a few inward hurdles to obtain it.                                                                                                       here's where i bow my head & ... jump.

after i've cleared the hurdles by suring up my decision to really trust God in the two areas that created them - after i've cleared the hurdles... i'm in.  faith arises in places where hurdles dwelled, & peace comes over me from springs in the deep.

some of the 24-7 community is headed into a Prayer4One Campaign. we're praying to help set free & save the life of a woman named Allison. i got my own brand of troubles that need God's salvation - which makes it all the sweeter that i get to set them aside to cry out for another - today it's all about her. what a sweet relief from it being all about me.  if you want to join the campaign for Allison shoot out an email & we'll get you in the loop.