'Tis the season!

This morning I walked into the quiet of the kitchen, turned on the light, and exhaled.

God is about His business of wrapping up 2012 at an accelerated rate for us. From the more significant to the less significant, He is dotting the "i" and crossing the "t" and putting a period at the end of every sentence. As the saying goes, "It's a wrap"...well, almost!

The coffee maker was filled -- the French toast was made.
I sat at the breakfast table absorbing the quiet.  Shortly, my husband walked up behind... gave a hug and a kiss... and sat down.  Quiet reflection of the season past and the season to come was caught in between our eyes.

Journeying with God calls forth a challenge to our humanity.  It is an addiction unlike any other.  Follow long enough and there is no point of return to be found. It will tear the flesh to pieces as it gives way to the spirit, soaring to greater and greater heights.  The wings beat, the heart pounds. It is a habitat flight unlike any other; not meant to be a one time flight -- a "rush" as they say.  No!  Such flight is to be a habitat, a sphere of air in which to reside.  It is arduous, extreme, demanding, life-taking, life-giving.

Steam from our coffee wafted up into the air.

The sun began to light the day. 

My husband and I smiled together,

no words were needed.

Two hearts.... one beat.
Two pairs of wings powered by harmony,
greater heights in our sights.

To take such a habitat requires everything possessed and more; yielding ever increasing degrees of light, fresh air, wholeness, and life than ever thought possible.

To NOT take it  robs everything possessed and more;  yielding diminished light, suffocating air, brokenness, and ultimately -- death.

Last week we were all reminded how suddenly life can forever change.

My exhortation to you today is do not put off tomorrow what could --- what should -- be done today.

I have been writing a good bit in recent months about diligence and stewardship -- basic principles that MUST be deeply rooted  in BOTH thought and action before one can expect increase.   As an author once wrote, would you entrust your child with two more dollars if he lost the one dollar you gave him initially?  No! God will not increase until He sees that you can properly handle what He has already given.

Too often we float through our days with a subconscious thought, "I have tomorrow."  But what if tomorrow never comes, at least here on this planet we call Earth?

Those who have followed me for any length of time know what a proponent I am to righteous sowing - not only for your generation, but the one to follow.  If you want a harvest, you have to work the field... you have to sow the seeds God has given.  Any farmer knows that if you plant one seed, it returns both  fruit and a multiplication of seeds.  Take the multiplication of seeds and plant those -- and they too return a greater  multiplication of seeds.  But if you never plant the "starter seeds," you'll not receive the fruit NOR the multiplication of seeds.

Don't wait another day, dear ones, to plant the seed(s) God has entrusted to you! And once planted, sprouted, and harvested.... make sure to sow the seeds of increase.  It's a divinely orchestrated pattern destined to leave a powerful mark on this planet!  All it requires is our faithfulness to sow.

It is written, "I, the Lord, am its keeper; I water it every moment. So that no one will damage it, I guard it night and day." Isa 27:3

GIVE God something to water, something to guard.