Radically Happy

Holiness orphaned results in necrotized yearnings

MIC Check

Today’s Most Important Challenge is…

• Noticing and reframing
• Orphaned yearnings
• So they lead me to Jesus

Yahweh Approach Memo

Continued from 4/27 YAM: Giver

I am… overwhelmed.

Rather than trying
To bring life to the desert
I now long for
Dead space in the jungle

In my quest for a mate
I crossed to the Other Side
The Primal Reality
From which we sprung

But it is too wild
Fertile
Crowded
Chaotic
Connected

I cannot see her
Or Jesus
Or even myself

I look to My Father.

At first
I cannot see Him
I start to panic
Thinking
The chaos
Hides Him
From me

Then…

I look harder.

And I realize
The complexity
Reveals Him
In me

In the desert
God was far
I had to travel
Long enough
To see Him

In the jungle
God is everywhere
I have be still
Long enough
To feel Him

I look for Jesus.

He promised
To go before me

I cannot see Him
In the riot
My eyes
Are still overwhelmed
By the details

I must train them
To notice
The signs of His passage

But
I can see My Father
His face
His eyes
Point me
To Jesus

As I follow
In His footsteps

I look for her.

But am totally unprepared
For what happens next

I finally
Find a dead space
A meadow
A savannah
A clearing

I breathe a sigh of relief
As I step out
Into the open

Only to hear
The enormous breath
Of a sleeping dragon
His (or her) head
Poking out
Of a forbidding cave

Worse
Jesus footsteps
Lead directly
Into the dragon’s den

And I am pretty sure
That is where
I can find my beloved

I look back.

Towards the desert
Longing for
My Dual Reality

Then I remember
Why I left
All I went through
All I dared
All for this

With a sigh…

I look to the dragon.

I step into the clearing
And surprise myself
By releasing a shout
A challenge
Loud enough to wake the dead

Certainly enough
To rouse a sleeping dragon

He opens one eye
Lazily
And speaks

“How wonderful
Of you to come
You are just in time
For my lunch”

To be continued

Reflection

I feel…

• Threatened
• Surrounded
• Uncomfortable
• Excited
• Alive
• Dangerous
• Close
• Desperate
• Ready

Scripture

“Then the lame will leap like playful deer and the tongue-tied will sing songs of triumph. Gushing water will spring up in the wilderness and streams will flow through the desert. The burning sand will become a refreshing oasis, the parched ground bubbling springs, and the dragon’s lair a meadow with grass, reeds, and papyrus.”
‭‭Isaiah‬ ‭35‬:‭6‬-‭7‬ ‭TPT‬‬