-Ah.....Helen Keller....so full of joy and life and light! Lord help me embrace everything about my life the way she did. What a woman!

 

+ My love, it’s no accident that I have you reading Helen Keller’s autobiography. I want you to have a great example before you of light in the darkness. But see – the agent of her freedom was her beloved and ever-present teacher, Annie Sullivan, of which she said;

“My teacher is so near to me that I scarcely think of myself apart from her. How much of my delight in all beautiful things is innate, and how much is due to her influence, I can never tell. I feel that her being is inseparable from my own, and that the footsteps of my life are in hers. All the best of me belongs to her – there is not a talent, or an inspiration or a joy in me that has not awakened by her loving touch.”

So…..when you feel the darkness closing in, see the Holy Spirit as the One Who ever holds your hand…forming the words of encouragement and truth on your palm….opening the eyes of your spirit to the beauty in all situations just like Annie Sullivan did for Helen. Ah…but she is just a shadow of what the Holy Spirit can be for you! I made you! I know you! I understand the nature of your battles and I can lead you safely through every one. I can even guide you away from the fray and out into that wide and spacious place where you feel the expansiveness of my unfailing Love filling you with joy and peace. You are beginning to understand how Graham Cooke calls the enemy my sheep dog. When you start using everything he throws at you as a touchstone for praising Me…turning your spirit to Me…waiting for the pressure of My still small voice forming the answers in your hand…revealing the great and wonderful things you do not know….Ah….this is Glory!!! Angels rejoice because you have eyes that SEE and ears that HEAR!!!! You belong to Me and I am truly able to set you completely free from all that is death and loss and pain in your life. It’s time to give all that stuff a “decent burial and get on with your new exuberant free life. God’s Spirit beckons!” (Romans 8 ~The Message) This so aptly illustrates “what the enemy meant for evil, God means for good.” You have passed through the suffocating waters…all the enemy’s attempts to drown you in the darkness of disappointment and instead, you have started your day...hands open listening and looking for the goodness of the Lord! This is life as God designed it and it’s only going to get better! Your inheritance is just beginning. Hold on!!! Joy. Joy. Joy !!!