Jiron

Time goes by so quickly. Every day I get up and hit the ground running. We have appointments scheduled throughout the day sending us all over Houston. It is nothing for us to drive 60-100 miles per day. Fighting traffic jams, shaking hands, passing on business cards, developing business relationships (many of which will be long standing), ministering to our local homeless community. Then ... going home to see that I need to clone myself.  Somehow there needs to be a fairy world of dishwashers, cooks, laundry maids, and toilet cleaners and bathroom scrubbers. But there is just me.  After I do what I can with my various hats of responsibilities, I wonder when will time be made for the paperwork that is piling up? My accounting is 2 months behind with a sales tax deadline looking at me and mocking me. Income tax that should have been done this month, but forgotten in the blur. Thank God I am pretty sure we don't owe anything.  The hypnotic effect of a busy bee life is someth...

First thing this morning, I had a vivid dream of a pile of dark dingy bones with mildew and mud that seemed to have been set for many years. I was asked if these bones can dance. I said I didn't know. I heard that they won't dance because they see themselves as dirty. I was told to "wash them, make them white, then they will dance." During the dream I thought I may just be remembering the bible verse in Ezekiel, but when I woke I recalled they were dry bones, not dirty bones. I believe the dream was a mandate for this New Year to speak to the body of Christ of how we are washed and clean, to remove the burden of guilt and shame that keeps the body from celebrating. The Word says the JOY of the Lord is our strength. So many of us are weak because we have lost our Joy. We have lost our Joy because we have lost our true selves in the midst of mistakes, unforgiveness  and human error. As long as we stay sin conscious, we can lose sight of how we have been MADE the ri...