beautiful fall  colors along Bandalier  in Tuscany Addition where we live and walk

Today it seems like any other supernatural day. With coffee brewing, we are waking up to a cool calm autumn morning. Golden and bright corals   along our street are shimmering in the breeze. Balloons are dotting the skies overhead. Our  beautiful  red Bradford pears are  ablaze like fire glowing in the sunlight. The Rio Grande below is aligned with miles of turning cottonwoods in shapes of golden clouds. The Sandia mountains stand  in a distance,  stately and majestic  with shadows of clouds whisking by. From our front porch we can see curls of smoke from fireplaces along the foothills spiraling up into the blue sky signaling we are in for cooler frost-like mornings. Just another supernatural day in God's world painted it seems at the moment just for me to enjoy, to inhale and capture in my mind. One that makes me thankful to live in such a beautiful place. Thank you Lord! I am amazed Father at your love to take such glory and transfer it to this beautiful landscape for your people to enjoy today!

Daughter I see that the world has closed in around you and you feel smothered and hemmed in. What I had in mind was that you be able to run free; to soar and to show your true colors..You have clothed yourself in camouflage to blend in  with the rest of the landscape . I made  you to be  to be different, to shine above and out from the others, not to be better than but to be distinctive. A gem with unique qualities . You are to show the design I created, not to be a copy or a imitation of something or someone else . I created you an original..Look in the mirror ,my mirror.Your mirror is not another person but the word of God.The word interpreted to you by my Spirit will show you who you are and only when you accept that and began to marvel in yourself as I created you will you began to be fulfilled, content and thankful..The Apostle Paul said not to  compare yourselves among yourselves for this is not wise because it causes the same deception that Satan tempted Eve with. God made a mistake when he made you.

What He gave you is not enough.He held out on you.You are still not complete. You need more -----. It causes you to look toward something else for fulfillment. It makes you feel inferior and  you began to value yourself in comparison to others and I want you to compare yourself to Me.When I made you, I said It is good! I made you in My image and that is enough!

Zion Rebekah

You ask me how I know He Lives: He lives within my heart;a line of an old hymn written in 1887. It was one of the songs I loved singing  when I rededicated my life to Him about the age of 25 ..I was pregnant with my daughter Brooke and I had been so hungry for that relationship I knew as a child. My choices had taken me off that road less traveled and even though I had found a wonderful man and was starting  a family, something was missing. I remember going to the Baptist church one night in Dick's hometown. We had just moved there from Colorado and there was a group of kids  sharing their testimonies and one young lady shared the scripture out of Ecclesiastes chapter 5 vs. 20.  For he will not dwell unduly on the days of his life, because God keeps him busy with the joy of his heart. One translation says, For he will not dwell on the days of his life, because God will keep him occupied with gladness of heart. Well my heart leaped in me, I realized I was missing gladness of heart and the joy of my salvation. My favorite hymn for several years after that was this song He Lives. He lives, He lives, Christ Jesus lives today, He walks with me, He talks with me, along life's narrow way, He lives, He lives, Salvation to impart! You ask me how I know He lives:He lives within my heart. I was so longing for the intimacy with Him I had as a child. I know when I let circumstances , worry or fear take over,  my heart becomes heavy..so a few days ago this song came back to me and I am reminded that I need to quit dwelling unduly on life's problems or the past, I need to let his joy overtake me and let gladness of heart return. Which by the way Nehemiah says is my source of strength!

Puget Sound

Calm Before the Storm

 Father many of us are sensing the under currant of your emergence in this hour. You are positioning those who are  watchmen and warriors on the front lines and many intercessors behind the scenes.. You are arranging the body in such diverse ways and you are breaking up fallow ground and relocating those who can plow, those who can plant and those who can water. The Spirit is preparing ground for us to occupy and for us to cultivate, for your Kingdom is advancing. Much of it seems to be invisible except to those who are seeing with the eyes of the Spirit, those with the Issachar anointing who know the season and are signaling the Body. Let us continue to stay awake to what you are doing and awaken to our purpose in this hour. For you Lord have come with the Voice of a commander to strengthen us to be able to stand and take back ground. Let us be faithful in whatever or wherever we are are assigned

Victoria Clipper

We have driven almost 2000 plus miles from Albuquerque to Seattle.We have enjoyed the smell of mountain pines, watched the desert sunset, waded in the cold pacific ocean, crossed the Golden Gate bridge and driven through the beautiful vineyards in the Napa Valley. Even the wonderful food and drink as good as they were haven't compared to the friends we have gathered with along the way..Friends who we will ever be joined to in the Spirit. We have shared testimonies, cried, prayed and laughed with these who have been lifelines at one time or another in our journey of life and we feel so blessed to have shared this trip with them. We are forever changed each time we experience something new and different. But again the most gorgeous scenery can't bring the kind of fulfillment like the new discoveries our granddaughter Anya had to share or learning things about her that we didn't know or spending the week with my daughter Brooke celebrating her birthday and just getting to be with her and realizing what an amazing woman and mother she is. Hmmm... I am kind of thinking this is what Our Father enjoys, experiencing life with His family!  By the way Happy Anniversary to my husband Dick, its been an adventurous 41 years!