About the Free man's land song...

Well, to begin a little note on my last post...

"in the free man's land there is not destoyers, no theives.."

Well that land is heaven.

But I have a little portion of faith (and by little i mean little. For i guess according to what faith the size of a mustard seed could do, mine is not that big. for a friend said that faith that big could move a mountain.. and i haven't seen it do that yet. however, sometimes i wonder if these mountains that friend was referring to is not so much the big moutains outside as it is the big moutains inside. like in the mind..or heart..

perhaps i have seen a mountain move then...)

So through the gift of that little portion of faith, I've seen that heaven occasionally, to come on earth as it is in heaven. little glimpses here and there. and most often they are quietly given, spontaneously, and they are not as "hallmark" as a hallmark card might capture them... and when it comes to earth as it is in heaven, and the stance of my heart and mind is just right to receive the glimpse (though often sometimes that stance is as off as an 80 year old fat man trying to do a yoga warrior pose, yet Grace still speaks and Peace still decides to intrude)... then I consider this a "golden firework" bursting from the sky or a golden fountain bursting from the earth (it is a 'fountain' when a word comes just at the right time)... and no outwardly it is not that display and even someone may be right there with you and not even know...but inwardly it is felt...and it can come in any way...so if it happens to you one way, one day, don't expect it to be like that another day...

but expect it to happen.

and if three years goes and you hear or see nothing.

well don't give up seeking.

and that is true, true, true. there are gates to go through. and they are eternal and the temporary is but a drift. and such a drift that what we concern ourselves with is so small in comparison to forever...but somehow all this day to day "have to" connects to that much bigger eternal "get to"...and i'm convinced that in heaven there are no grids of "big" or 'small' or "he is" and "she is not"...

Because the light there is God, the Maker, creator, Redeemer and "in Him and through Him all things exist." and everyone gathered unto this super-abundant One is known and fashioned in such that who they are is a part, essential part of the make-up of this all-sufficient One.

And that is a mystery and I for sure did not articulate it even unto a close proximity of the true, full reality..

but all this to say.. I think when that kingdom comes...on earth as it is in heaven...

the murderers flee.

the theives flee.

the destroyer takes his puny hand and whines becaue his hand is so small in comparison to...

The Hand.

The One Hand.

oh i want to put my hand in that Hand.

"Old man thake my hand now, let us walk together, for years we have labored in vineyards apart. the distance between us accounts for the problem, oh suffering how beautiful you are...

We have come to the mountain of the Living God, take a good look around us what we see is what we've go, there's no better day coming there's no brighter morning sun, for we have come to the mountain of the Living God..."-Jason Upton & the Goodland Band