Dawn is Coming, Open Your Eyes.

And I will wait for you tonight

You're here forever and you're by my side

I've been waiting all my life

To feel your heart as it's keeping time

We'll do whatever just to stay alive -Jose Gonzalez

I guess the September blog theme is "life" but then again isn't that the theme of everything??

Life is a bustling herd of just.. stuff.. happening all the time.. it's loud, it's messy, it's hard.. 

there is no manual, and you will not get out alive.

I have been adhering to that notion of "YOLO" lately, I must admit. I feel like you only live once and life is too fragile and too short to do anything other than that which makes you the most happy.

Sometimes where desire meets reason there can be compromise in most things. Meaning, sometimes it's better to do and ask forgiveness than to ask permission... but not in all things..

If I want to eat ice cream sandwiches  for dinner I will.

If I want to buy that veggie burrito two days in a row.. I will.

Yes I will splurge on that Dutch Bros.. don't mind if I do.

Sit home all day and netflix binge on cooking shows? or clean the house?? NETFLIX.. the house can wait..

In little ways here and there I spoil myself... and it makes the day just a little bit exciting.. if for even the slightest moment I forgo the "rules of life"

are there any concrete rules?? I mean really? asides from the 10 commandments which let's face it.. every human should uphold those no matter what their belief system is.. because in adhering to them, we could all exist peacefully with one another and within ourselves...

but really is there a rule that says no sweets before dinner??? 

yes.. your mom did pound that into you as a child but really she was just trying to help you form healthy eating habits... there are no dessert police in the real world...

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Every day I am striving to re-encounter unadulterated bliss as I had experienced in my youth.

I look at my 3 year old son, and I see the joy he encounters upon seeing a toy he's played with a thousand times and the joy is new each time.. like he has never played with that toy before.

He can entertain himself for hours with one task and be completely at ease and happy in doing so..

He doesn't have to look hard at all for something that makes him happy. He just is. I wish I could bottle that up.. 

"When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me."

1 Corinthians 13:11

Do you remember the joy of water??

The joy of getting wet in your clothes.. running through sprinklers, water gun fights.. swimming every day until you turn into a prune?

 I remember as a child that no matter what I was wearing or prepared for, if there was water play I was in it, just like everyone else...

water dries, joy is fleeting, the memories of Joy however are everlasting.

I maintain the same easy going attitude as my parents did when it regards my kids getting wet.. if they are in their sunday best and there is a splash pad where other kids are running about.. you sure as heck better believe I am not going to tell my kids no...

Splash babies splash.. this won't be forever.

Dawn is coming.

Life is short..

but it's not the end.

The bible says several times to have "child-like Faith"

What is that exactly?

well.. I think about my own children.. they have complete Faith in me to protect them, to provide for them, they see safety in my presence, they feel warm and secure, and confident. They can completely be themselves with me and they have the assurance that I love them no matter what.

They are whimsical, and full of Joy, and they aren't without question but they are complacent in not knowing everything...

This is How Jesus wants us to come before Him.. in complete confidence of knowing who He is, and that His plans for us are not to harm us but to in fact give us hope and a future... that He is our ultimate provider, and protector..

Several theologies and religions believe that this life on Earth is not our last.. that God has created the perfect world and essentially we all end up there some day.. The kingdom of heaven where we coexist in complete nature with everything, and there is no pain, no suffering, only love, joy, patience,... all of the fruits of the spirit are abundant and in this world.. we will want for nothing..

is it just a fairy tale??

Is this the happy ending we want to believe for ourselves?
or it real??

I have been following the story of Child prodigy Akiane Kramarik for awhile..

Akiane grew up in a very secluded little town,with her siblings and her athiest parents.

One day 3 year old Akiane wakes up and asks her mom who Jesus is. 

Her mom puzzled as to where Akiane could have possibly heard the name "Jesus" responds with 

"I don't know.. who is Jesus?"

the three year old's response??

"He's like a parent"

the conversation ended there that day but over time Akiane intrinsically had more questions.. and she began to draw... not just doodles, and scribbles and stick figures.. but portraits.. 

Akiane begins to tell her mom about these dreams where Jesus comes and takes her to the kingdom of heaven and teaches her how to paint..

her parents are puzzled, and their only response is to listen...

She also begins to write poetry... 

using metaphors, and allegories beyond her years

She writes and paints about the kingdom of heaven and her experiences there.

By the time Akiane was 12 years old her paintings were sold for millions of dollars.

Her parents... had NO CHOICE.. but to believe her. 

Why did God appear to a 3 year old??

He has said that those with a child-like spirit/ Faith are amongst the greatest of Heaven..

and I am willing to bet we all will come to Him with a child-like sense of wonder and trust and love when it comes time .

I feel like my childrens' Faith in me is completely incumbent on my ability to love them.. without condition.. and to love them well. And if my love for my children is only a smidgen of God's love for us.. We should all rejoice... Because Dawn is coming.. 

Open your eyes to the beauty around you.

Find joy in the small things

Sometimes you'll find the small things are in fact... the big things.

Love one Another, be humble and selfless..

eat that ice cream for dinner

drive with your arm out the window feel the breeze catch on your hand as you create a wave motion..

do what makes you feel alive..

Find the Joy again..the Joy and Faith of a Child..

Be blessed.