Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire

🔥Tongues of flame. Tongues wagging.

Your presence in the present is a present of presence.

Say ten times fast and see you in the morning!

For another round of the unfathomable. The divine. The unbelieveable.

Do the crime, do the time. His mercy endures beyond our frailties and most people believe what they wanna believe. What suits their needs in the ever presence of His presence.

He is always there, even when our awareness is not. He chooses the how and the when He will reveal himself to us. We may get bowled over by the moment, fall flat on our face during the searching and seeking.

We tell truths. We tell lies. He sees right through them all to get to the bottom and top of our soul’s purpose.

Humble humility. Humility with humbleness.

Manifestly speaking, a word, a touch, a glance.

Or.

His experiential presence reveals when we are at a low point. When the bar is lower than low and there are no more places to look for—much less find a clue. Because He is everywhere, all the time, top to bottom prepared for whatever we throw back at Him in our times of impetuous ignorance.

With His righteous right hand.🫱

”Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

He goes before you.

He goes after you.

He walks alongside you.

Be not afraid. Come follow me and a I will give you rest.

He tests the testers and the know-it-alls.

The ones who test his patience with their wicked lies and sugar coated stories of “remember when.” The bad times are easily forgotten, easily trashed, easily pushed aside.

When we hurt. He hurts. When he wants our attention.

Watch out!! It can bend, break or bruise the best of us and our intentions.

We contradict Him.

He knows.

We rebel.

He knows.

We pretend.

He knows.

We destroy.

He knows.

Survival of the fittest meets survival of the word of God as it reaches our hearts and minds.

Our character flaws are nothing compared to what He has in store for us when we “come to.”

He alone is the key to our success and he locks the lock on our failures so when we use repetition and a force for ill will, we come to find there is no use in the wider path of mega. The narrow path and the narrow mind work well on the straightforward.

Face to face. Someday that is the present He is guiding us to seek.

”You cannot take it with you.” Is as transformative as it can be impossible. He alone provides us with comfort in difficult times such as fear, oppression. He daily provides the wisdom we know we need and fail to seek until we fall at failure’s knees and hurt ourselves,

again.

He want us to feel joy. Pure and endless joy. There is hope in His presence just as there is His endless love.

At the risk of sounding scary, he comes to us with answered prayers through visions, voices, a deep sense of inner knowing. The Holy Ghost.

Inspiration and intuition are His way of filling our over flowing cup with goodness to see another day as beautiful.

A peace that passes understanding is His quiet voice whispering in our ear. He fulfills our prayers and He answers them, too.

Inspiration in the hottest of days, in the heat of endless days he is, well,

Cool.

He keeps it cool, the epitome of calm, cool and collected. When we hurt, feel bruised or overly excited about the wrongs of the world. He is with us. It feels good. When we are at our clumsiest,

he picks us up, dusts us off, Points down the narrow path and says,

”Get going.”

We may feel we walk in aloneness, be we know we do not. He is the coincidence we simply could not ignore. We tried. We lied. We became heated in a moment of fear and doubt.

He is relentless.

He is relentless.

The intangible is trust and faith in His reputation for getting it right the hardest of ways. His life. We can foolishly continue to squander the magnitude of His selflessness, or we could, “Get going.” “Get real.” And stop pushing one another’s boundaries to the point of obviousness and contusion. It is not right and it is not real. It is the heat of the selfishness that causes relationships to falter.

A peace that passes understanding.

Best of all. In the prison of our own doing, sometimes of our own mind, you begin to recognize His devoted work in your life and realize struggles and difficulties are what strengthen.

Not lies and stories spun on fairy dust and begging.

”It’s the small things.” Have you ever heard this? It is not the big explosion, the tsunami, the destruction that covers miles and miles.

It is the small things. He requires us to be attentive and open-minded. To it all. To everyone and everything around us. See the goodness in the people who have brought you to this moment in time of your beautiful, beautiful life. Messes and all.

”God is guiding you through something right now that will soon bear fruit that you cannot yet see.”

Maybe.

Maybe not.

The stories we tell ourselves and others with the intention of teaching, may push a person further away from the truth. The end of the story may not look as you think it should.

In the end, it does not really matter. “God works through unexpected events.” “Pope Francis” He was a man who walked the walk of humble humility—whether you liked him or not. Unexpected events cause us to change course may continue to require us to walk the narrow path. Longer.

Some days, it feels like the world is on fire. Endless days and nights of torches and flames that won’t go out.

Hurray. And. Yes.

His flame burns on and on. It is up to us to stand the heat, to stand the test of time.

On His time.