I Will Remember Your Honey and Take Eat

Sabbath resting my heart in Your Word

16 December 2015 in Arrowtown, New Zealand. Waking early to drink in God’s Living Word to me, 20 months after burying my Mum.

Today, we celebrate Sinter Klaas (Saint Nicholas) here in the Netherlands. Saint Nicholas was a Saint (source: Who is St. Nicholas), whose wealthy parents … raised him to be a devout Christian, [but] died in an epidemic while Nicholas was still young. Obeying Jesus’ words to “sell what you own and give the money to the poor,” Nicholas used his whole inheritance to assist the needy, the sick, and the suffering. He dedicated his life to serving God and was made Bishop of Myra while still a young man. Bishop Nicholas became known throughout the land for his generosity to those in need, his love for children, and his concern for sailors and ships.

In honor of this Saint, who experienced the devastating loss of his parents at such a young age, to later become God’s comfort to so very many, I am sharing an edited version of a poem I first published on the 28th of June, 2022, as part of my blogging series 31 Days of Birthing Shalom.

Saint Nicholas pray for us that we, like you, may become God’s comfort to many, many others. Pray that we may, as you did, by the power of the Holy Spirit at work within us, shower those God sets before us in the eternal gifts of faith, hope and love that God has so generously bestowed upon us, in the emptying of our earthly hands. Pray that the physical gifts we give people this month may, through God’s grace at work in us, become a sweet and tangible expression of God’s love, opening the eyes of the hearts, we give these gifts to, to the never-forsaking love of their Heavenly Father for them and their families.

Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.

Ezekiel 37:5 ESV

I AM Awaking

There’s not a day

Goes by

I don’t remember

How far

You’ve come.

There’s not a day

Goes by

I don’t see

The labor pain

You’ve borne.

Always and forever

From the throne room

My heart’s pouring out

Living waters rushing

For you to know Me more.

Ever more in My death

And resurrection

Sweet mercy

Taste now in heaven’s

Dew ever glowing.

My manna’s

From the sky here falling

Know there’s not a day

Goes by

You’re all alone.

As you Sabbath

Rest your heart

Lift my Word afresh

In your bosom hid

My honey, take eat.

My Body broken

My blood shed

Come and feast

At My table in the

New wine ever flowing.

In the tears

And groaning

See a new heart awaking

The love of the Father

No longer hidden, freely given.

Into your hands I’ve emptied

See harmony’s song

In Christ’s leading thought arising

Behold: truth’s kissing grace

Dove’s eyes, pure blue revealing.

In Heaven’s cloud opening

Tears in joy I’m reaping

Each day anew

Run your race into kairos

I’m the Way

In the wilderness

See Eden in your desert

Blooming

In rainclouds

All things new unfurling

See in your body

My Body

Freely given

For the joy

Set before us here:

The dry bones

I AM

Awaking!

Ezekiel 36: 33-36 NRSVCE

Thus says the Lord God: On the day that I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the towns to be inhabited, and the waste places shall be rebuilt. The land that was desolate shall be tilled, instead of being the desolation that it was in the sight of all who passed by. And they will say, “This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined towns are now inhabited and fortified.” Then the nations that are left all around you shall know that I, the Lord, have rebuilt the ruined places, and replanted that which was desolate; I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it.