The authors personal ruminating on life, faith and reality.
Understanding at last? . Understanding the mystery of it all! . To believe I can truly understand what’s outside me, Is I see quite simply- Tomfoolery. Understanding, I perceive is beyond me. Just now I see, it’s about you not me. . Understanding at last? . May the world perceive, It’s about you, not me; … More Understanding
Glory too the Fire of Judgment. It burns the fire of judgment, it burns. It burns away the bonds and chains; it burns. It burns the fire of judgment, it burns away the dross and pain. Refiners fire, glory come, burn away, burn away. Oh glory, glory to the fire of Judgment, sent out from … More The Refiners Fire!
In spiritual communities ones choice is generally between small, deep and healthy or big, shallow and compromising . How leaders maintain unity without real intimacy or a sincere ability to rest into the required interdependence of true community is the challenge. Walking in real community requires trust in the Spirit to actually be leading … More Leaving behind the Nicolaitans
Most of us live on well water, city water, or cisterns. Some of us long to drink only water of the freshest kind, waters that satisfy our soul; Living Water. Finding these Living Waters is the challenge of our lives. The purpose of our being. It is our Joy and our hope to live beside … More Rivers of Living Water
Extract yourself! Extract yourself from your dysfunctional reactions and defenses! Extract yourself from entertaining the offenses, Offenses rampant in our culture of envy, blame, shame and guilt. Give up your self righteousness and superiority, become clear! Set yourself free. Become Mindful! Become grateful!* Become sincere, Become understanding, Give up your offense, Give up your defense, Come … More Extract yourself!
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the Lord. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. “ Isaiah 55:8-9 Our Spiritual life is a simple walk of faith and awareness. We walk in God by a conscience … More Higher Ways
Greetings Tony, I still treasure the copy of Oswald Chambers “My utmost for his highest” you inscribed to me as “my father in faith”, given on my birthday Dec. 17 1991? Now ; more than ever- I try to be careful with my words, discovering over the years that The Spirit of Life or the … More Tony Bahu- An open letter ~One.
The Veneer is Gone. The Veneer has rubbed off our culture, Exposed are our hearts, our hate, our self-serving ideologies. Where has compassion gone, where has understanding gone? Gone. When we think we are god’s we judge harshly and hate what we do not understand. We are wrong. We are powerless to so much, but … More Veneer-less
The Puritans believed & trusted- through and through, “We” started with them, not perfectly, thoroughly. We have been left with veneer. Many and long are the shadows since them. Veneer stripping is our work today. Stripping away the veneer of good, The veneer of righteousness, The veneer of godliness, We call it tolerance, stripping away … More Veneer Stripping
A compilation inspired by Dr. Wayne Gwilliam who suggested the value of “Workable Truth”. Truths that aligns with the reality of our being within the creation. Truth that you can act, work with and rely on. I have been collecting them since 1999. Please add your contributions to this pool of shared knowledge as a … More Workable Truth’s
