Breathless

The emptiness of  our soul leads to numbness. Restless unsettled,confused, what is right, what is true.  We wrestle with discontentment, dissatisfied with life, questioning the meaning, what is the purpose? We pursue the existence of breathing and asking why are we here.  

Listening to our own heartbeat we ponder, "Is this it? Is this as good as it gets?    There must be more. The soul is reaching, seeking, grasping for higher living.  The heart beats, longing to propel passion, a thirst for the heart compels us to seek, search out for clarity, the calling, listening to the small voice the whispering in the dark of night that speaks.  I'm listening when you call, I hear you, I will lead you to your destination through my desires for you, trust me!" Keep pushing running toward the goal I will not leave you restless, but breathless as you rush after your purpose. Press on, push through the obstacles, I am waiting for you to fulfill my desires through you.  Seek, for life is abundant much more than you can imagine.  Pursue My presence, you will not be left restless but breathless as you chase after My purpose. Press in, Push through, Persevere, you will find what you are looking for, peace. 

Before Light

The dark morning before light, I sit watching and waiting, looking for you.  My thoughts are scattered but I sit to come into your presence, to rest in the silence and solitude of your peace.  My restless anxious heart desires to abide but my emotions rush in and captivate my soul. Running down my thoughts to catch and quiet them, to silence the voices of defeat and failure to hear your voice.

Closing my eyes I breath in slowly, exhale worry inhale peace.  Embracing this quiet time to concentrate and focus my mind on the Lover of my soul, the Peacemaker. I whisper His name, Jesus. All other thoughts flee, I listen.  Reaching out to embrace, there I am abiding.

Connie Burkett 3/30/2018

Manifested Majesty

In awe of your beauty and the wonders of your hands.  
Praise you Lord, Oh my soul I worship you.

I am undone as Your holiness hovers over and the warmth of  Your embrace melts my inmost being. 
Chastened by Your Manifested Majesty.
In awe of Your glory, Your love envelops me.

On my face I worship you, in fear and trembling.  
Giving thanks for Your loving kindness, Your unfailing love.
You pour Your peace over me as the waters cover the sea.

Redeem me, rescue me, restore my soul.  I rest in Your glory, as Your

Light shines upon me.  Your beauty unfolds and reveals just
a glimmer of who you are.

In awe I bow, and pray Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty.





Your peace washes over me, calms all my fears, my spirit is renewed and at rest,
like a tranquil pond on a cool spring morning.

In awe I pray, Holy Holy Holy is the Lord God Almighty.

Set Free In Faith

In everything give thanks. Before early light your presence lights my path and leads me to understanding. Illumination of your love and goodness covers me. Your Word infiltrates deep into the darkness and penetrates the hidden places revealing truth to the lies and deception. You expose my inmost being with love that sets me free from all the shame and guilt and the fears that have locked my heart up in chains of discouragement. "Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is freedom." 2 Cor. 3:17. For God who said "Let light shine out of the darkness" made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ." 2 Cor. 4:6. Thank You Jesus for meeting me here.

Light shines out of darkness.

Summer Morning

Summer Morning

Morning is rising to meet the afternoon.

Lingering in first light, listening to the morning song.

Praise to the heavens.

 The sky lightens from the night of darkness

To the brightness of the Sunrise, that

Lifts the soul from slumber to rejoice.

The delight is in the pondering of the morning,

The sounds, the solace that brings peace and purpose.

Morning moves to quickly from the coolness to the heat of the day.

Summer morning may I linger longer to give praise and thanks for the dawn of early light?

Awaken my soul, expand my senses to embrace you with strength.

Love that sets me Free

In everything give thanks.

In silence I sit seeking and thanking you for everything.

Before early light your Presence lights my path and leads me to understanding.  Illumination of your love and goodness covers me.  Your Word infiltrates deep in the recesses of my soul revealing  truth to the lies and deception I have believed.  You expose my inmost being with love that sets me free.  No longer do shame, guilt and fears, keep me in the dark.  My heart has been set free from the bondage of darkness.  You have bound up the blackness of my heart and wrapped me in your light of your Grace, and your Forgiveness.  No longer held captive, imprisoned by falsehood, but free in faith.  Set Free! Set Free! Set Free!

And those who know your name will put their trust in you.  For you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek You.  Psalm 9:10 

Sanctuary Hill Summer Sunset

Before the Darkness closes in  His Light Shines  His  brilliant Glory.

Thirst for Fulfillment

As a Hummingbird is drawn to the nectar off a flower, I want to be drawn to you.  This cool crisp Spring morning I gaze at your beauty.  I am awe struck by your wonder and majesty, meditating on your Word about Living Water that washes over me with purity and righteousness.  I am mesmerized and consumed by your presence as I drink in deep from the waters that overflow my spirit.  May I thirst for more of you when the world tries to satisfy the cravings only you can fulfill.The longings and the desires of my soul can only find rest when it reaches deep into the depths of your love.  Engulf me in your light and glory as I worship you at your feet, humbly on my face in reverence and awe.  In fear and trembling may I drink in your Living Water.  Satisfy my soul as I drink in the sweetness of your love.

STILL

The world seems dark and insecure and afraid, but God, who created the world is still in and over the world and in control.  We must look beyond the bad news the evil, the senseless, and look to the One who created and Still reigns over all.  The sun still comes up and shines brightly, the birds flutter in the wind.  The trees still sway to the music in the summer breeze.  There is still beauty around, still peace, still presence here.  Look around, there is victory on the horizon.  We don't have to be afraid but  be faithful til the finish.  He is still God.  Just be still and know that He is God. 

Still.

Light Overcomes the Darkness

Morning Light - Sanctuary Hill

 Lightness can illuminate the darkness.
  The darkness can be so black, you wonder
if you will ever see the light of day.  The
 Light is there, He is always there, but our eyes are shielded by the darkness of deception, disappointment, loss, and depression.  

Darkness blinds.  Darkness binds grief and pain to a cavern of lostness.  Darkness attaches itself to depression which finds it way to a path of heaviness and hopelessness weighted down in loneliness.  Lying down in the lies of aloneness, Feelings of despair, distorted thoughts, untruths that weave in distress, discouragement, feeling defenseless.

The light of day, the Light of hope dissipates the darkness which despises the light.  Darkness avoids the glimmer of light but can't flee the brightness of the Son.  Darkness is not the Creator but was dispelled when God said "Let there be light" and there was light. Genesis 1:2.Darkness has to flee.  Shadows reveal  there is hope  through  illuminating what the darkness tries to hide and cover.

Brilliant light strips the blindness of the path our eyes are unable to see and could not find.  It was a colorless place devoid of any hope, The Truth uncovers  what is hidden and reflects a horizon of hope that was hindered and  harassed through disillusionment.  The burdens are lifted the Light subdues the heaviness and harnesses in belief and anticipation, hope.

The Light dispels the darkness and the shifting shadows of deception. The Light fulfills what has been depleted.

 The Light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not comprehend it.(John 1:5 NAS) He is the Light.  Jesus is the Light.  In Him was Life, and that Life was the light of men. (John 1:4) 
 Light always  overcomes the darkness.

Where is His Word?

Where is His Word? 

Is it sitting on the shelf, sitting in the backseat of your car?  Where is it?  Open in front of you, yet unable to see what He is saying.  Reading but not retaining, Hearing but not listening. The answers to life are here, waiting to be revealed to unlock the map of your journey so you may walk His way, hear His voice but only when you are still and quiet.  Searching and seeking for more will He reveal, revamp and restore.  Where is His Word for you?  Remove it from the shelf, the backseat, He longs to guide you to understanding, wisdom, and the knowledge of Life.   Find it, reach for it, read and listen.  Life is abundant, more than the mundane.  Seek and you will find. 

New Memories

The end of a day, a year that has past.  It is memories, the moments of defeat, discouragement, trials.  Yes but the moments of faith, trust walking into the unknown of the All-Knowing.  Hold a hand of certainty in the times of uncertainty.  Fears and feelings of anxiety,  stressed in tiredness.  Worry, sleepless nights of wandering the what-ifs.  You turn to prayer, you cry out, you walk away, leaving behind the fretting the feelings of fright.  You lean in, you focus, you reach out for truth.  The truth that reveals the answers to the questions and to the questions unanswered.  The Truth.  Ask, ponder, reflect, and remember.  Reminisce the moments, only to renew and explore a new day, the new year.  Ready or not, Let's Go.  2015.  Spring will be here before you know it.  Enjoy this season, this moment, this day, this new year.  Blessings to you.

 

Beauty Beholder

"Beauty is in the eye of the Beholder" written to describe how beauty is observed to the one who is watching. Beauty is beyond our perception, for its mere existence comes from the Designer of all things, who spoke beauty into being.  We may perceive something less or more attractive based on outward appearances, but  He looks beyond outward, and views within, where true beauty resides.  Define beauty is to define the Beholder, the one who originated, initiated beauty, the Beauty Beholder, the Beauty Bestow er, undefined and indescribable is He. Our awareness is blinded by our own interpretation and limited perceptions, God on the other hand, sees a reflection of Himself,  like a mirror reflects an image.  Perceptions have been wrong because of  the unknown, unwilling to look and see beyond the appearance, our shallow misconceptions, the value above the view we call unattractive, less than, doesn't fit the mode.  How hollow our field of vision,  the unnoticed blessings of beauty by virtue through our smallness.  Look again, stare if you must, gaze at the beauty of opinion of ugliness.  Look closer, don't turn away, focus.  Don't miss grace through offensiveness.  Look over the ugliness and see Grace, beauty bestowed by the Designer who formed that which we disregard, overlook.  Beauty  is in the eye of The Beholder.  Look again, see the mirror and what is reflected.  Can you see the beauty that is being bestowed right before your very eyes? Behold His beauty in the unsightliness, the unattractiveness, the depravity.  the deformity, the uncleanness. Beyond the outward is beauty which beckons us to recognize and adore. 

Mirror the reflection of Beauty

Winter Rest

Winter is a time of rest, a slowing season for our souls.  Like snow falling quietly, peacefully, it comes to rest and lay upon a life that needs perspective.  Hearts renew as peace finds rest and tranquility in winter's rest. Our souls find reflection, refreshment, fulfillment in the calmness and the slowness of the still snow.  Unlike snow that falls and blankets the cold ground and stays until warmth melts, your love O Lord, falls fresh and is unfailing,  pure.  Your unfailing love lays on the coldness of my heart to warm up to melt away, to remove the fears, the doubts, the impurities of a calloused heart.  Your loving ever-presence rest on me, my heart  cold like pure snow yet un-pure, makes me whiter than fresh flakes of snow on grass. Your unfailing love warms my heart that is fridge, broken, hurt in need of healing rest, hope.  Rest in Winter warms the soul by the hearth of Your Spirit, and Presence of Your Hope. Winter season gives rest in His unfailing love where the slowing down we  find peace and rest for our tired and weary souls.  Rejoice, Renew and Rejuvenate in Winter Rest. 

Psalms 33:22  "May your unfailing love rest upon us (me) O Lord, even as we (I) put our (my) hope in you."

 

 

 Winter Rest for your Soul

Peaceful Path.

A Path  with God. Walk with Him.

God Moments

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Every moment is a great moment because they are all God moments, glorious moments.  He is the Giver of the moment.  The one who is supreme, He is in the moments.  Occasions that take your  breath away, devastating moments, junctures of pain, loss, disappointment,  overwhelming moments that leave you undone.  A point in time, when everything changes, He is there, He has always been there.  Everything altered, a new life, a baby born cries out for breathe a beautiful miracle, a miraculous moment.  The reborn life, an eternal moment, death to life, abundant life, forever life changing glorious moment.  Stand still never want to end moments, Moments you want to seize, grab hold of, never let go. Frozen in awe,  speechless, no words come nor can describe God in the moments.  Just embrace Him, now, this moment, forever.

A Holy Haven

Masterpiece from the Master.

 A New Journey

The Shimmering Light on the Horizon.

A new path that I am blazing is here.  The place of solitude and beauty that surrounds me.  Embarking on a new trail will surely  enlighten my senses, stretch muscles, and will force me to climb greater heights.  May you journey with me, walk new paths, travel new roads, experience breath -taking sights and enjoy moments of silence, quietness, a stillness that God wants you to know.  God has a path marked out for you to explore and embrace.  You are invited to Sanctuary Hill . Come and find rest. Stay awhile and linger. Slow down, breath in His peace seek His Presence. Enjoy the View!  

Just a view from the Hill

Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10