In His Likeness w/ AntTBri

I’ll be the first to admit, this pandemic has changed my perspective, perception and pursuit of life and love. It has forever altered my understanding of value. To the affirmative, it has added depth to the things deemed beautiful, helping me to fathom God’s goodness, grace and greatness in every day occurrence. I’ve experienced hummingbirds greeting me in the morning, picturesque landscapes, breathtaking mountains and various oceanfronts. My eyes have beheld a plethora of things presenting as beautiful amidst this present day darkness. There has been a host of exquisite eye catching exhibits, moments/opportunities that were heart stirring and thought provoking granting me moments of mental reprieve from present day realities in a “he makes me lay down in green pastures, he restores my soul kinda of way”.

For more days than I care to remember or report this pandemic has forced me to sit in an uncomfortable silence. The isolation alone, on so many levels challenged my resolve to believe and expect the best from this present world and it’s occupants. I almost fainted, forfeited and failed to trust God for a future inclusive of wholeness, fulfillment and His purpose for my life and love. But God, in His faithfulness is reinvigorating my ability to trust Him, myself and others within the unknown. He is illuminating my hearing or is it more accurate to say my ability to hear and accept acknowledgment, apologies and acceptance of human frailty (mines and others). It’s as if He has infused me with greater levels of understanding, compassion and grace. I find my self desiring even looking for opportunities to reciprocate love. My heart is willing to love beyond the disappointment of yesterday in the strength of today will be what we make it. Agreement is a beautiful gift that accentuates love in its authenticity. It prompts, pushes and propels us to pray in terms of God redeem the time, replenish and restore our ability to hope, expect and pursue what you desire we experience and have. It’s an internal urgency to prepare, get up from current places of defeat and soar into what God designed, designated and desires we experience. We cannot do that with the weight of what has happened or went wrong before. None of that matters, needs to be rehearsed. Here in the present is opportunity, growth, possibilities we will miss if our focus isn’t tuned to the Son! Who with or in the disappointment never left or abandoned His purpose for us. I pray He continues to work within us the will to do what ultimately pleases Him. If that’s our aspiration we will live and love to see the abundance of His heart towards us. There is more.

I’m rejoicing because I’m getting my want to back. That’s my prayer and expectation for you as well. Maybe this discourse or future discussions (I’m writing again) can inspire and encourage us to hope again despite the time, current manifestations and how long we’ve been waiting for daybreak. Morning does and will come…the sun sets and it rises we simply have to await it’s sighting. Let’s wait together in great expectation for what’s up and coming. I believe God for you, with you for everything He purposes for you. I want you to experience and express it wholeheartedly. Look, live and love to experience it. I’m trusting the illumination of God’s Word will shine a greater light on those things being put to rest while stirring an eternal gratefulness for what remains and is blossoming into beneficial for our life and love.

Current manifestations (regret, despair, grief, sickness) will no longer buffet our existence. What we know of the sufficiency of God will silence every fear, disarm every crutch and remove every stronghold suffocating and stifling our hope in God. We will no longer look for or need a means of escape from what is growing us. We won’t continue to hide or cower to fears comfort less we sit here and die, remain stuck, still and stagnant. We’re living and loving in the affirmative of what God deems necessary. So be it, in whatever capacity it materializes. It is and will not be permanent and if it lingers we’ll deal with that also…it’s stretching and strengthening our trust, hope and faith in God.

It’s remarkable how God allows significant conversations to transpire that address inner heart contemplation (without our divulging or even realizing just how needed the affirmation) to heal and resolve apprehension. They may not occur right away, but it unfolds perfectly in God’s time…as an awakening of the will. I will to be be better, to be whole, able to give and receive love advantageously. I will to help heal the disconnect, face and overcome every challenge, to encourage, support, and strengthen without keeping record. I will to be authentic, to show up whole-heart, standing with every strength and against every weakness. I will to share life and love with you my friend, my family and my forever. God in all His excellency is perfecting everything concerning you and I amidst the unknown and it is developing beautiful, purposeful, desirous, and significantly within the span of His appointed time. Hope lies within every Sunset~AntTBri