Hi Pastor John,
I don’t want to write you too much, especially since you are working on IK, but it’s not my fault. Jesus keeps talking to me, and I cannot hold this in!
The other night as I began to cut up a green pepper, I looked at the heart of the pepper that had all the seeds inside of it. It was like Jesus was right behind me and whispered, “Everything you need to grow I have placed inside.” Then the next morning as I was blindly walking to get coffee, I glanced at a banana on the counter. The peel was beginning to get dark. Again it was as if Jesus whispered right into my ear, “When the outside is bruised and dark and many would throw it away, that is when it is perfect and ripe.” That is what Jesus did for me. Many had given up on me, including me, but that is when I was ripe for Jesus.
So, as I was driving for work today thinking about Jesus whispering to me, I thought of how beautiful it is that Jesus knows what stirs my heart, what it is that I find beautiful and hold dear. What Earthly lover can so intimately touch the heart? Only holy intimacy can go so deep within. These are the feelings that flooded me. I felt like I was feeling Psalms. A pure intimacy with the Lord.
Beth