Unfurling into Splendor

Tonight my Canadian friend was asking me about mediation. I do not believe in meditation. I believe in prayer. I believe in soaking in God's presence in silence. I do not want to empty my mind, but I do want to empty my soul of me, and allow the Holy Spirit to erase anything that would impede the Glory of God, and to fill me with God's love and His peace.

As I was speaking to him, he said, "you've changed", and I said, "I'm unfurling". I am unfolding the person I have been keeping inside, and allowing myself the opportunity to breathe and to be free. Free of anxiety. Free of ill health. Free of self-doubt. Free. Whom the Son has set free, is free indeed. Each day I am reveling in this freedom. Each day I am a new creation. What a fantastic promise that God has given us. Every day we are new. Every day I am new. Every day my prayer is that I am more and more a reflection of the heart of God. His compassion. His love. His strength. His wisdom. His understanding.

There is so much inside me waiting to get out. I feel the time is coming when this trickle of writing will become a tidal wave of inspiration. I pray when that day arrives that I will accept it and flourish in it with all humility and with the strength to share what I have found to be True.

After I got off the phone with my Canadian Friend, the "new girl" said, "Wow! You're a preacher!" I laughed it off, but she was fairly persistent in telling me that I have a gift. A gift of persuasion and an ability to recite God's word effectively. I would say that it is Holy Spirit inspired, but it's also the work of memorization I did when I was in school. The amount of God's Word planted into my soul still brings a harvest year after year. In order to speak for someone, you have to know them intimately. In order to speak God's words, I have to know His. That way when the Divine Inspiration comes, it's easy to speak His words.

I encourage you tonight to spread out your wings. I encourage you to trust in God's love enough to allow Him control of your heart, your mind, and your spirit. Enjoy the freedom of every day you are a new creation, behold, old things have passed away, all things have become new.

So what are you going to do with the new you and your new day?

Thoughtfully yours,

Miss Magnificent

Bastille My Heart!!!

Hello Kittens!

Your Miss Magnificent just could not keep her deep and abiding love to herself. Yes, it's true. I bought a new (drumroll please!).....nail polish!!! OPI brand - Bastille My Heart! Love, love, LOVE it!!! Hey, I know what you're thinking. Well, two things. 1. Kinda cheesy name for a nail polish, but I love that about OPI. 2. I thought all you wrote about were serious things! Well, then, you are misinformed, and must go into time out! Miss Magnificent embraces all aspects of life from the sublime, to the Divine, and everything in between!

Yes, you're right. I had nothing else to say. Oh, and I got a new lipstick too. YEAH!

Yours fabulously put together,

Miss M.

P.S. Viva la Revolution!!!!!!!!

StarShine!

Today I was talking to my Canadian friend. We talk about work and somehow it always winds around to the spiritual. This should not surprise me as most of my life is focused on the spiritual...my relationship with Jesus and helping others to live a more victorious life. In talking with my friend, I started making emphatic statements about myself that I have been praying. As I was espousing these things, I realized what I was really saying is that I was declaring who I was.

I have been afraid of shining out for various reasons in various aspects of my life. I don't want to ever be afraid of who I am, because God created me to be who I am. So, if I am ashamed or afraid, what I am really saying is that God's work isn't good enough. When you write it out, it seems completely ridiculous. So, I have been praying in such a way to renounce the old way of thinking, and to embrace all of who I am. The Bible says that we are supposed to be lights in the world, that we are not to hide our lights under a bushel; a city on a hill can not be hid. So, every time I squash who I am, or hold back, I am doing the same thing. That can not be pleasing to God, and at its deepest root is rebellion, as He commands us to shine.

I vow in 2009 to shine as brightly as I can. To allow God's love to permeate and shine out through me in a blazing force. I thank God for who I am. This diamond was created under immense pressure and I am proud of who I am, and who God is perfecting in His love to be. I am His. All of me. I look forward with eagerness to how He will refine me this year. Each trial I face is a test or it is training for the next phase in my life. I am grateful for the chance to be a visible represenation of an invisible God.

So I ask you this fifth day of 2009. Who are you? Who have you been afraid to be? What will you do with the gift of salvation?

With great expectations, I keep my eyes focused on the Mark of my Higher Calling.

Your,

Miss Magnificent who is also StarShine!