New Beginning

As I opened up facebook tonight, I was greeted by this powerful art work, done by a friend from high school that I had not talked to since, nor did I know was an artist.  But, God knew.  He used her, unaware, to paint this for me tonight.

He led her hands and heart to paint a message to remind me of a word, in part,  He had given me, an invitation to come and follow Him.  That word was given to me a year and a half ago.   

"Come, follow Me,... that I might care for you in new ways, unexpected ways, in ways of new beginnings.  For, Behold, I am He who makes all things new!"

This painting speaks to me on many levels.  It left the axis of my heart at a standstill---gazing into its speech that poured forth for me.  So much so, I struggle to begin penning the words that this speaks to me. 

And so I listen, observe, and speak out that which I hear in my heart... that which I hear Him help me speak. 

Sands of time.  Shores of life.  Waves and tides.

 Ebbs and flows--- come and go. 

 Movement, unexpectedly. 

Washing away... what remains. 

 Remaining still... promise and hope. 

 Beneath the waters unseen...

Lines of life pour forth speech. 

 Unforgotten, held by love,

stretching into the space

 

of sadness that will not loose hope.

 

 

 Nothing can erase the message of My love for you.

 Not the currents or waves or storms of life,

nothing can erase

 My new for, you. 

New. 

All things- new. 

 I make all things, new. 

 New things mean, new beginnings. 

 Even now... tonight is a new beginning. 

 

I keep listening...I feel the whisper of Him say;

 

And when the waters come... they overcome little by little ... the sands that sit upon the shores.  They wash away each one that was there before, bringing new sands, for a new story to write upon.  But, when they overcome, they overcome in a way that brings a depth that was not there before... and so I overcome your heart with a depth of love for Me, that was not there before.  I love that you let Me overcome you with My love.  For you are learning my Beloved, that when I overcome, it is with love, deep love for you, my dear one.

As the tide comes in, and with each and every movement of the water, taking back out to sea a bit of what I have written, so you too, come a little at a time out to sea, into the deep. where we together drink from those waters, anew.  Writing, little by little, the story of your life, My story in your life. 

 

I love that you come.  Come to be with Me.  Come to listen and let those watery tears fall from your eyes.... for Me.  You know now, that I do hold them, each one of them.  And with each one of them, I make something, new.  My love for you is deep, as the waters that come to shore come from the deep.  I outline your life in things anew, while I hold your life in my hands, shaped and formed by love. 

 

Even now... your times with Me, are new.  New beginnings of times with me, that look differently than they did the day before.  I love Your, new.  For you, my beloved are, Beautiful.