House of Mirrors There has been a change in my relationship with God recently. For years I was told that when I “gave away” the knowledge that God had been teaching me, I would move on to The Second Level of Learning. In general, as I was growing up, I was most reluctant to share with anyone anything I learned from my visions. But, somehow, stumbling along my way in life I found myself in The Second Level of Learning. I...
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Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment, the long tapers of cattails are bursting and floating away over the blue shoulders of the ponds, and every pond, no matter what its name is, is nameless now. Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires and the black river of loss whose other side is salvation,...
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The White Room Not that long ago I discovered that I was studying something new in my visions. It turned out to be a new realm of God. The sixth realm study in my career. The first five realms of God that I have studied are obedience, surrender, discipline, acceptance, and grace. I write about them from time-to-time on my blog, The Value of Sparrows. This new realm had a different kind of presentation. The others were just concepts...
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Every year the lilies are so perfect I can hardly believe their lapped light crowding the black, mid-summer ponds. Nobody could count all of them— the muskrats swimming among the pads and the grasses can reach out their muscular arms and touch only so many, they are that rife and wild. But what in this world is perfect? I bend closer and see how this one is clearly lopsided— and that one wears an orange blight— and this one is a...
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The flames grew higher wider They lashed out of the frame they were in They came for the surrounding material Anything everything they could consume They would consume The men in thick suits could not get close The fire was too hot too strong There was nothing to do but stand back And do what could be done from a distance Time went by The pastor sat on the ground and wept The heat pressed down on him But it didn’t matter It was...
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