December 09, 2024

Have you ever just sat in silence to be still? I have and I miss it. I am one who used to fear silence.

Once I learned how to be still and experience the silence as it came, I learned about my resilience. Through that I found a strength I never believed I possessed.

After the strength was shown by the realms of Heaven in various ways and places, I saw how God’s people were measurable as a unit. Though I was experiencing the God-Head at that time in exciting ways, I did not yet feel as if I were a part of that world. However, I saw God’s people as a unit.

I was prompted by Holy Spirit to write about “Joy”. I assume for the obvious reason of this season. As I am stalling in this writing to come up with something clever to give you, I can only think of God’s Grace and Mercy towards us. Oh how He loves us.

As you give and/or receive this season, whether it be your time, your money, gifts, hugs, or a friendly smile at the perfect time, please remember yourself. When you look around to see God work miracles, remember you are a miracle as well.

Be blessed dearly Beloveds. He that is in me and you is greater than he that is in the world. Blessings. 🌹

1 Chronicles 29:13-17 => “Now therefore, our God, we thank You and praise Your glorious name. ¹⁴ But who am I, and who are my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly as this? For all things come from You, and of Your own we have given You. ¹⁵ For we are aliens and pilgrims before You, as were all our fathers; our days on earth are as a shadow, and without hope.

¹⁶ “O Lord our God, all this abundance that we have prepared to build You a house for Your holy name is from Your hand, and is all Your own. ¹⁷ I know also, my God, that You test the heart and have pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of my heart I have willingly offered all these things; and now with joy I have seen Your people, who are present here to offer willingly to You.

Alicia R. Shipe