Jesus

Stillness

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December 26, 2025

There are those in the world who, for many reasons available, are unable to speak what they know to be in their hearts. The images we see throughout our lifetime, the sounds we hear throughout our span of life, as well as the feelings we know we have felt along with other sensories make up what we collectively call experience.

Often times those sensory perceptions culminate into a form that only our spirits (inner man) can understand and untangle. When we believe we trust another and try to explain these experiences it can overshadow the common sensibilities that is understood as human nature. Those misunderstandings can then come through as a dynamic we were not prepared for.

Trust is always earned. When it’s given without mutual experience (sometimes even with mutual experience) there is a space created. What this space becomes is definitive upon the one it is within. Silence and stillness are just as powerful as action and commands.

Allow time to reflect, respond, and restore what can be and needs to be respected. Let that space that exists become what you determine it to be.

Safety first (Love Always),

Alicia R. Shipe

Psalm 94:12-19 – Blessed is the man whom You instruct, O Lord, and teach out of Your law, 13 That You may give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit is dug for the wicked. 14 For the Lord will not cast off His people, nor will He forsake His inheritance. 15 But judgment will return to righteousness, and all the upright in heart will follow it. 16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? 17 Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul would soon have settled in silence. 18 If I say, “My foot slips,”
Your mercy, O Lord, will hold me up.
19 In the multitude of my anxieties within me, Your comforts delight my soul.

What Can Be?

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There are many variations of one’s persona depending on who is asked. Jesus asked His disciples, “Who do people say that I am?”. I have yet to receive understanding into our Lord’s heart as to why He asked this question and more importantly the timing of this question. We do know that it was eventually answered through Peter by The Spirit of the Living God.

Everybody has an opinion of who they think/believe someone is. There is also who we ourselves believe and think we are or are not. We have all seen or heard the expression “We are spiritual beings having a human experience.” For most of us that is not enough because we desire to become more.

As we are about to enter the ‘High Holy Days’ that our Lord celebrated with His earthly family, let us each come to know Him and His experience on earth on a more profound and deeper level than we currently do. Let us allow Him to do the same with us.

Psalm 40:5 => Many, O Lord my God, are Your wonderful works which You have done; and Your thoughts toward us
cannot be recounted to You in order;
if I would declare and speak of them,
they are more than can be numbered.

-Alicia R. Shipe-

Joy!

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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

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