Good Morning Father,

As for God, his way is perfect: The Lord’s word is flawless; he shields all who take refuge in him. Psalm 18:30 NIV

The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Martin Luther 

It has been raining for 4 days now.  After a while it gets to you.  

I am so ready for some change in my life.  I am tired of the games that come with working for someone else.  I know you are ready for me to change also.  You have given me creativity, yet I can’t quite figure out how to use it for myself to grow.  l should be able to go and make a living for myself.  I should have the courage to go and move mountains.  I have been stuck in such a rut that it is hard to get out of the same old, same old.  

I like today’s thought, “the way to love anything is to realize it may be lost.”  It is hard to love some people because they don’t realize they are lost.  We are all broken, yet we don’t want to accept that.  We want everyone to think that we are all together.  The fact is, Not one of us has it together.  If we could each get this into our head, the enemy will have a harder time getting to us.  

Father, I need your light.  I am ready to make it out of the poppy field.  I am tired of pretending like I have it all together.  I want to have it together.  I need you to put someone in front of me that can help me.  I want to see the light.  I want to hear you speak.  I want to live instead of just walking.  We are all so selfish with our lives.  There is a key ingredient that I haven’t yet found.  I have the heart.  I have the brain.  I have the desire.  I just don’t have the courage.  

Charles Edward,

My people are so busy sparring with one another that they are keeping each other down.  They use the Word as a sword to injure one another.  Each man is to walk his path, not looking for the fault in the other, but to lift the other man up.  I sent my son Jesus to show my people that I love them.  Learn to love Charles Edward.  Quit getting upset and frustrated.  Until you can learn to walk and not try to defend yourself, you are never going to be able to stand very long.  If you believe in me, walk in me.  If you see fault, then fault will be found in you.  I have allowed you to walk a hard path.  Quit stumbling.  You have lived long enough to get it.  You are stronger than you give yourself credit for.  I have made you strong.  It is time you stand and walk.  Quit looking for that mat to fall back down on.  It is time to gather.  I have called you to be a leader, yet you keep falling back into the pack.  Quit looking for the easy road.  There is not one.  Quit allowing others to use the Word for their own use.  I want a man that is after my heart.  I want a man who is so swallowed up in me that he isn’t concerned about himself.  Quit thinking from your brain and think with your heart and soul.  Man is not about flesh and blood, but of the Spirit.  You battle against things that don’t matter.  I want a man that rages after my heart.  I want a man who seeks the matters of the Spirit not of the flesh.  Quit getting the two confused.  Quit being double-minded.  Realize who you are in me and to me.  I Am your God and I will not allow you to fall.  I will not allow you to falter if you are truly seeking me.  Be faithful.  Be true.  Quit being limited by your fear and your humanism.  I find fault with each man that finds fault with another.  It grieves me to see my people fighting with each other.  Charles Edward, you are my Son.  I made you.  You are not perfect in yourself nor will you ever be.  In me, though, you are perfected.  Rise up out of the ashes.  Be the man I created you to be.  Now is the time that I call you to stand.  I called you to feed my sheep.  Do not allow them to be slaughtered.  Be humble yet fierce.  Stay on the yellow brick road.  You gather.  I will protect you.  I will feed you.  I will be your rock.  Now is your time, for I call you forth.