A Little Light

[LindaW]

"The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, and His song will be with me in the night, a prayer to the God of my life." Psalm 42:8


LindaW

[LindaW]

"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers." -Unknown



LindaW

[LindaW]

Re: Prayer for my dear son Chan
by LindaW » January 14th, 2012, 4:44 pm
Written to Jackie,
About the gift of "hearing the heart":

"I believe God does share that gift. I believe I have been given that gift, when God chooses to let me hear someone's heart. Because I have had to listen so intently to Him to hear how to help Leigha, and to listen to Leigha when she can't convey her thoughts and feelings because of the autism, it has taught me to listen intently on a whole other level. I listen deeper than words. That's the only way I can describe it. And I am sure He allows this to anyone who needs it like you did on that morning.
What is funny though is because I have been taught to listen "differently" I can't listen the "same" anymore. I am constantly on a different frequency it seems and don't ever seem to retain the "shallow" frequency of just words. I am always listening to the deeper frequency of the heart. I literally can hear one thing with my ears and another with my heart. That is why I continually say it is really important to me to have what my heart hears validated. Because it is very hard to bypass your ears and only listen with your heart. And it takes a lot of vulnerability and faith to trust it."


Hear the heart.
LindaW

[LindaW]

"Surround yourself with people who truly know your worth. You don't need too many people to be happy, just a few real ones who appreciate you for exactly who you are." --unknown




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[LindaW]

"God wants you to know ... that you were not created to remain within the confines of a building.
There is a whole big beautiful world that was created for you. Go forth into it! Humans were not made to be indoor creatures; nature is our true playground." -unknown


I find that first sentence interesting on a few levels.


LindaW

[LindaW]

I had this dream last night. In the dream I was going through all of these boxes - I believe it was all of my parent's things after they died. ( Little footnote here: that is one of the hardest things I have ever had to do in my life. First of all, you are in no condition to do it, and every single thing that you come across has an emotion attached to it, some good- some bad. The tiniest little unimportant things can break your heart. To this day I have boxes in my garage of the personal items I just still can not bear to go through.) Ok, with that footnote, back to the dream. I was going through these items and I just broke down. I'm surprised I didn't wake myself up from sleep because in my dream I was sobbing so hard my body was shaking. Hard. I literally crumbled to my knees. Suddenly I was aware that there were a lot of people around me - just standing there watching me. I didn't see them as much as I felt them because I really didn't care, I was sobbing so hard. And then one person suddenly came up behind me - and reached their arms around me and held me close. I remember feeling surprised, mostly because it was very sudden and like I said, I wasn't looking at who was around me. Even though they came up behind me and I was looking down crying my heart out, in the dream I could still "see" their face, and the look in their eyes surprised me as well. There was no fear or looking around, it was a totally focused look of "knowing this is what they needed to do". Determined walking through the crowd of whoever, to get to me. To wrap me in a blanket of love. I remember just resting my head on their shoulder and between tears, from my heart came these words...."I love you sooo much."


LindaW

[Jackie]

May the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge, reward you fully for what you have done. Ruth 2:12

[LindaW]

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

- Khalil Gibran



LindaW

[LindaW]

"Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.”
--- Marcel Marceau


Sometimes the silence is just too loud.


LindaW

[LindaW]

Yesterday I saw a commercial for Hallmark. (the card company that is secretly behind Valentine's Day) It was a bunch of people saying what they need to hear from someone else. "I need to hear you say 'I love you. I've loved you all along.' " ...that "When you see me smile, you can face the world." ...that "I light up your life." ..and that "I'm a candle in the window on a cold dark winter's night." .. ok honestly I don't know if those in particular were in the commercial but those are my additions..feel free to add more love song lyrics there...and at the end of the commercial it said, "Tell them what they need to hear this Valentine's Day."

I do believe that Mr Hallmark is right.


LindaW

[LindaW]

"The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be." -Unknown


and purely from the heart......


LindaW

[LindaW]

So I saw a message on a church sign today that reads: "It's Valentine's month, tell someone you love them."

Makes me wonder if you asked God to give you a "sign".


I think God just gave you that "sign".


LindaW

[LindaW]

"The heart has such influence over the understanding that it is worth while to engage it in our interest." - Lord Chesterfield


I ran into an old friend yesterday- Mary from the children's center. You may remember the story of how I had a dream about her husband right after he died....even tho I had never met nor seen the man before..in my dream he wanted her to know she was always his sunshine, and now he is hers.....those exact words...Right after I had the dream she called me and asked me to calligraphy letters he had written for their 2 daughters on paper that he had drawn a self portrait of himself.....and when I went to pick up the paper I was like, "that is exactly him". The self portrait he had sketched was exactly the man I had seen in my dream. I shared the dream with her, always prefacing these things with, "ok this is going to sound weird but..." I asked her "did he used to call you sunshine?" and she said "No.".......and so I told her the message anyway "that he wanted her to know that she was his sunshine and now he is hers"...and then I felt like a real dope..I went home kind of looking up at God like, "Um, I told You I would do these things for You but You do realize the way it makes me look, right?" The minute I walked in the house the phone rang and it was Mary and she was crying saying " I didn't think of this when you were telling me the dream but every morning when I woke up he would roll over and say, "hello sunshine". The next time I saw her, I had found a stuffed sunshine pillow with a big smile on it and I gave that to her and she hugged it like a little child.
Well today after we talked for a bit I was getting ready to leave and she grabbed my arm hard and said....."have you had anymore dreams????? I think about what you told me all of the time" I had to say no.... I said, " I believe he just wanted you to know that and I am just open enough for God to allow me to hear the message and I will just say, 'ok! I'll do it.' I'm just glad I could help.

She has had something to hold onto all this time..........because I was willing to look like a fool - to blindly take what was placed in my heart via a dream, and share that message with someone who desperately needed it. He has messages to share and when He gives you something to share, share it. Don't hold onto it, it isn't yours. It's theirs. I could have just looked at that like a weird dream and brushed it off. It meant the world to her. Deeper than I can even imagine. What if I had chosen to not share it? I could have just locked it away, but I trusted it's power to do what God intended. Don't lock away the things God had placed on your heart, placed in your hands. Because they aren't just from you, they are from Him. Deliver His love. It could mean the world to someone. Deeper than you can even imagine.

LindaW

[LindaW]

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." -Audrey Hepburn


But when you're apart, it helps to have something to remind you.

LindaW

[LindaW]

"Courage breaks down the barriers of our little boxes and lets us discover new kinds of love that were never possible. Sometimes love comes in a package we least expect." HOPELights♥



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