I SEE you!

Oh the times in which we are living....

I hear the word "busy" so often these days, and sometimes I am thinking... "am I BUSY?"... surely I'd know the answer to that... right?

"What are your plans?" so often the question....

MY plans... hummmm another provoking question....

MY plans...

well, let me tell you..... to steal some of my Ellena's words....

I LOVE MY LIFE!!! I LOVE THIS WONDERFUL OVER 50 stage.....

I LOVE WHAT I FEEL GOD HAS CALLED ME OUT OF and INTO~

I LOVE BEING WHAT I AM!

BUT..

sometimes I feel overwhelmed...

One of the things that I always told my Em was....don't take THAT (whatever "that" was) onto yourself, unless it is truly yours. Sometimes oldest children tend to TRY to be the caretakers of the entire world.... (could this be part of the reasons most CEOs are oldest kids??) but as caretakers, often the take on things that are not theirs to handle or not theirs to fix, or .... well, NOT THEIR CALL!!!!

good or bad...this is a documented trait of oldest children.

I am ONE!!!

This morning, as my wonderful husband had papers spread all across my kitchen table, and my daughters called to tell me where they would be and what they had to get done this morning, and my mother called to invite me to one of my weekly treats....lunch with the girls....all this made me chuckle.... I LOVE MY LIFE!!!

I listened to my busy loving family, and I heard a Voice inside....

YOU BE STILL!!!! they can't right now, so

YOU BE STILL......YOU STAND on the WALL and

YOU SPEAK words this morning that will pour out over this day.......

I CAN DO THAT!!!

I am so very blessed....

I am so very blessed.....

I am so very blessed....

I can be still and speak and ask and hear....... LORD that I'd do that more often!!!

so often instead of hearing HIS voice, I begin to get caught in the waves that my precious family is riding at any given moment.

... or I get caught up in some other less important matter like

"look at those spots on my carpet!!! better get on that right now"...

but this morning.... I decided to hear MY LORD's words to my heart

as an intercessor for people I love!

and guess what.........

I began with such a strange sentence

(He'd given me a word 2 years ago... "I see you"... both ways)

and I began by saying to my Jesus.....

"thank You for seeing me!!!"

Does that sound a bit strange to you? well.....it sorta did to me as I spoke those words aloud... sorta like going in to a doctor, lawyer, counselor... or some other such person who'd take time for my needs....... but this was MY GOD!!!! and HE really was SEEING me...... and hearing me and even calling me to make the appointment!!!

Oh the time we shared this morning..... I got to take each of my precious ones to His throne... I got to ask particular blessings on certain ones... I got to ask for the health, well being, spiritual, physical and emotional LIFE of my beloved ones....... I had the right to ask of MY FATHER....because HE said I could!!! I asked for our families priests.......I asked for the circumstances and opportunities...... I asked for.......

well I asked for eyes to see and ears to hear...

TRUTH!!!!

and then He said.......

YES!!!! these are the things He wanted too.......

praying in agreement....my spirit hearing His in me........ what an amazing gift.......

what an amazing call, what a cherished place....

to be allowed to stand on the wall, and ask.......

then He said to me.......

I see YOU!

I thank YOU Father...... You are God, and YOU do hear me, and see me.

Thank YOU for seeing me today.

(and every other time I ask.......and even when I don't.......That's what a Father does!)