A more truthFULL interpretation of Life..

I thought the perfect image to capture this entry is kintsugi

Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery. If a bowl is broken, rather than discarding the pieces, the fragments are put back together with a glue-like tree sap and the cracks are adorned with gold. There are no attempts to hide the damage, instead, it is highlighted. The practice has come to represent the idea that beauty can be found in imperfection. The breakage is an opportunity and applying this kind of thinking to instances of failure in our own lives can be helpful.

...I find God's Kingdom all over this art form of restoring cracked and broken vessels, filling in the broken lines with veins of gold, so the restored end is even more valuable than the original!

wow ... again I’m so thankFULL for how JoyFULLHolyTrinity meets my heart with His heart day by day! 💞

4/12/24 I’m feeling; defiant? Took too long to fall asleep after trying the new ritua sleep aids with passionflower, thought I may be a write off for chaplaincy today but I'm committed!! I'm alive in You, Jesus! In my weakness You're strong!

20/20 God's vision for your life plan day 10 devotion;

Beyond Disappointment By Tommy H. Briggs

You are good and do only good; teach me your decrees. Psalm 119:68

The man lay in the exact same spot where he had lain for years. Crippled by paralysis for the past 38 years of his life, he clung to the desperate hope that somehow, some way, he would be the first person to enter the pool of Bethesda the next time an angel of the Lord came down and stirred the waters. The man knew that if he could get into the pool before anyone else, he would be healed of his paralysis. But being surrounded by a great multitude of sick people—others who were blind, lame, and paralyzed—he didn’t stand much of a chance.

One day, Jesus came walking by the pool and saw the man lying on his straw mat. Knowing the man had been there a long time, Jesus asked him, “Would you like to be healed?” The sick man barely looked up, but straining his voice to talk, said, “Sir, there is no one here to help me into the water at the right time. When I try to make it to the pool by myself, the others push and shove and always get in before I do. So there’s no use. I’m almost ready to give up.”

Jesus looked at him and said, “Get up, take your bedroll, and start walking.” The man didn’t even question Jesus. He just believed and started to obey the command Jesus had given him. The man stood up on legs he hadn’t used in 38 years, he picked up his bedroll, and he walked away…completely healed.

But what about the countless others who were still there—the “great multitude of sick people” who were waiting around the pool that day? Have you ever stopped to think about how they felt when Jesus walked over, asked the paralyzed man a single question and then walked off after healing him? Consider their depth of disappointment or even envy. I can almost hear their cries, their begging, their pleading for Jesus to come their way.

Maybe you’re sitting at your very own pool of Bethesda—at a do-or-die place in your journey—waiting desperately for the Lord’s intervention. Perhaps you’re struggling with sickness in your body or that of a close loved one; maybe your marriage relationship needs healing or you’re waiting for your boss to recognize that you’re really the one who keeps the company running. But, instead you are not healed, your loved one passes away, your spouse asks for a divorce, or your boss eliminates your job. It seems like the Lord passes you by without even noticing or listening.

Disappointment, discouragement, and sometimes despair come knocking at your door. You’re haunted by the question: “What is so right with everyone else and so wrong with me?”

Disappointment and discouragement come to everyone. Since this is true and the Bible declares the Lord is in control, my conviction and experience has taught me that the Lord uses disappointment for His purposes. And in doing so, He releases healing in our lives. I’ve discovered that there is deep abiding healing that comes only as disappointment begins to fade.

I first began to make this discovery about 15 years ago at our family Thanksgiving gathering. In the midst of our feasting and celebrating, we discovered a small swelling on the thigh of my two-year-old grandson, Adam. After thorough examination by his pediatrician, Adam was sent to an oncologist to begin a yearlong battle with a rare form of cancer. As a family, we came together and began to fast and pray for Adam’s healing. Our church family prayed continuously during that year, including a 30-day, 24/7 prayer vigil outside Adam’s home. But at the age of three, Adam passed away.

I was seriously disappointed that the Lord didn’t heal my grandson. However, as the disappointment began to subside, a healing began to take place that words cannot describe. This healing came in three stages: First, I chose to acknowledge and grieve over our loss, which helped me begin to move away from my disappointment. Then, I accepted the truth that God is good and He always does good (Psalm 119:68). Lastly, I made the deliberate decision to trust the Lord no matter what happens (Daniel 3:16–17). As I did this, the Lord allowed me to experience a deep healing in my soul characterized by faith, peace, assurance, and the awareness that God is with me. His presence overshadowed and healed my disappointment.

Perhaps you feel overwhelmed by disappointment and discouragement because of unanswered prayers—healings that didn’t occur; relationships that weren’t mended; needs that went unmet. My encouragement to you is to focus on the Lord and wait for His healing beyond your disappointment. You will be glad you did when His presence comes and abides with you and keeps you in perfect peace.

We have seen God intervene in miraculous ways at times, but we have also learned that God does not heal just because we want Him to heal. He does whatever will bring Him the most glory.

~ Michael Catt

Memory Verse

Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed. Isaiah 53:4–5

my spirit-Feast;

Psalms 119:68 TPT

Everything You do is beautiful, flowing from Your goodness; teach me the power of Your wonderful words!

The Truth about God: EVERYTHING God does is beautyFULL, OVERFLOWING from His BountyFULL, EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANT goodness!! He can teach me the power of His wonderful words - His WonderFULL Words are absolutely true His WonderFULL Words NEVER change, and His WonderFULL Words create, determine and correctly interpret reality!

The Truth about me: I'm the grateful recipient of an ever active, God who has worked EVERYTHING beautyFULLY in my life, yes, including ALL the suffering, trauma, hurtS, painS, disappointmentS, discouragementS, disillusionmentS, frustrationS, disheartenedness [including a near death brain injury, 3 heartbreaks, and a broken engagement] ALL of that is recreated, redeemed and transformed into good, beautyFULL blessings that could save lives! The Life giving, liberating, transformative power of His WonderFULL Words had become all the more real to me in and through it all!!

How this Truth will change the way I live today: Able WongTsaichangeJing, My beloved son in whom I'm well pleased, and I'M ESPECIALLY FOND OF!!!!

You have eyes that Truly see, and you have ears that Truly hear! Now you can properly understand and interpret everything in your life through the lens of the absolute Truth of My beauty and goodness - that EVERYTHING I do is beautyFULL, no matter how ugly and contrary to beauty it seems at the time! EVERYTHING I do flows from My goodness, no matter how bad and terrible horrible no good very bad it may look and feel at the time! The power of My wonderFULL Words of undefeatable, never ending Life can, will and do beautyFULLY redeem and recreate all that looks and feels ugly and bad in your life into beautyFULL, wonderFULL goodness! Enjoy Living FULLY Alive in the glorious freedom of My beautyFULL, wonderFULL goodness to share with everyone today!

The uglier and worse things may look or feel to you, The Greater the EXCEEDINGLY ABUNDANT power of My wonderFULL Words to create something beautyFULL, good and wonderFULL in and through it all! Just look at the cross as The Ultimate case in point! NOTHING in all of history was more ugly and bad or more evil than My Son experiencing the FULL fury of your hell, EVERY sin, EVERY pain, EVERY wound, EVERY fear, EVERY rejection, EVERY shame, EVERY defilement, EVERY insecurity, EVERY worthlessness, EVERY hopelessness you've experienced to the worst possible degree, He suffered it ALL! To bring you and all who trust Him The Greatest, Ultimate beauty, goodness and wonderfulness of salvation full and free!!

Song from HolySpirit for my heart: 

You Make Everything Beautiful by Rebecca St James 

https://youtu.be/BzjL1yOj05s?si=DdZ75XfnMLps_eB0

Grant me serenity to accept things

The things I cannot change

Grant me the courage, Lord, to change what I can

Wisdom to know the difference

In my weakness, You can shine

In Your strength, I can fly

And You make everything, everything beautiful

You make everything, everything new

You make everything, everything beautiful

In its time, in Your time

It's beautiful

Ooh, in my weakness, You can shine

In Your strength, I can fly

And You make everything, everything beautiful

You make everything, everything new

You make everything, everything beautiful

In its time, in Your time

It's beautiful

Lifting open hands to You, my Savior

Beautify my soul

Knowing You redeem my pain and failure

Purify my soul

Beautify my soul

And You make everything, everything beautiful

You make everything, everything new

You make everything, everything beautiful

In its time, in Your time

It's beautiful

It's beautiful

It's beautiful

In its time, in Your time

It's beautiful

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