A CHANGE INTO

We traverse the miles of minutes call existence, wondering what it is all about. Finding a moment where we pause and realize something has totally changed in our lives.

Only we aren't able to reflect good enough to quite grasp all the steps we took to cause the change. For a moment the confusion dominates. We get totally distracted and frustrated by the process.

Something mercifully interrupts our thinking and before we know it we have forgotten the question. Until later when the darkness of night rises like a vampire from a coffin and we return to that place of questions.

In the natural, we are only comforted in this mystery by whatever wind of reflection resides within. It might or might not help to refresh and touch with some compass of light to guide our way.

On the other hand, when one is graced by God's spirit, he can help us see the bridges we cross to get to the new essence we've become. More importantly he helps us see the reasons.

That brings the type of understanding that can build faith. It can help us erect a tower inside that faces heaven.

We are redeemed in deeper tones of meaning. God's reality swells within and we move closer by small amounts to where we are supposed to be.

It isn't easy to always express this experience to others. If they haven't been so touched it can be even more difficult. Sometimes they will listen out of politeness, but not really belief you explanations.

Still, it doesn't change what the Lord can do to bless us in the process. We can either grow with the change and see it for what it is worth or keep ourselves distant from the truth.

There are times when the sound of one's inner laughter truly can help to heal. And if we remember it comes from the Lord, it can truly warm

Beyond the skies of our invention, where the place our stones never reach life has its own special pulse. There is nothing more joyous and fulfilling when we find that smile that God created.

Too many never do. They wander listless pretending to be happy, hurting or dying on the inside. Till they sleep with envy as their companion, growing so cold in the process.

Till we either succumb to the peril of indifference or truly learn to fly. The hand that brings us where we need to be always belongs to the lord.