oh my! a tree!

i walked to church this Sunday, big suprise, it's one of the greatest joys of my weeks not to mention my life. Walking to church *sigh*. i started walking with my friend Jann Arden singing in my ears (we most-often get along, Jann's heart and my own) but soon realized that she was far too loud for me to Hear. and i desperately needed to Hear.

so i turned off my bulky, old-fashioned discman (has anyone seen my dear little ipod?)and began my real journey. we communed, God and i, God coming close, me trying to let Him touch me, and then me making feable attempts to touch Him.

about a block away from church i experienced something drastically wierd and potently wonderful. the only way i can describe it is to say that

from the tiny seed of my dreams that had died a horrible death over 2006

there sprouted a tiny tree

which rapidly grew into a larger tree

stretching out from the centre of me

to my every extremity

!

i could actually feel the extending of its limbs into my own. it probably didn't feel like what it would really feel like for a plant to sprout inside of my body, but it felt like it should feel when God brings to life the core of a person that had been absent for a long time. i didn't know i had been absent from myself, but i had been!

so i sat down in church, all excited at the thought of leaves to come, and my mind went to Hosea 6. Lord, Hosea Six! You've worked it in me again. Oh my! So i randomly opened my Bible...it opened to Hosea Six. There was no bookmark, there was no fold in the page or any other reason, other than the nearness of God, for it to open to that passage. I almost wept for joy. He was near. You were near.

church happened and half way through the service was when i noticed that ronelle was back. i was lost somewhere, buried under some 'thing' while my dreams were buried and destroyed (for the Good). but on Sunday i was back.

and now i keep checking my tree because i know that first will come the buds, then the leaves, and after that the flowers...and then, then THEN COMES THE FRUIT!

and i can't WAIT to taste it!

hallelu

halle

hallelujah!

"Come let us return to the Lord;

for He has torn us, that He may heal us;

He has struck us down,

and He will bind us up.

After two days He will revive us;

on the third day He will raise us up,

that we may live before Him.

Let us know, let us press on to know the Lord;

his going out is sure as the dawn;

He will come to us as the showers,

as the spring rains that water the earth."

(i'm counting on that)

Hosea 6.1-3