Wow, I can't believe we are 5 days into 2011, lol! I haven't blogged in a few days and wonder where the time has gone. Since me and my daughter were off for two weeks from home schooling it has been quite the task of getting back into the home school groove. I find myself swamped and finally able to sit down and catch up a little on the net around 9pm or even much later. How did those pioneer women DO IT? I mean DAMN, they had to make their own soap, butter, milk the cows, gather the eggs, preserve the meat for the winter, wash and make all the clothes by hand, collect beeswax to make candles, raise and teach the children, and so on. Why am I so worn out? What a WIMP I am compared to how the women had to be when most of the land was not yet developed way back when. Here I live in Oregon and when I read about the Oregon trail which stretched from Missouri all the way through Oregon about 2000 miles long, I find the whole experience of families traveling that LONG and TREACHEROUS trail quite amazing. It was extremely rough trying to get your own land out west. I can imagine that quite a few didn't even make it. It seemed like their life was much simpler because of the lack of technology, and ya know it probably was, and yet it was much harder than we can imagine.
I was pondering today how the women back then also must have looked. I am sure they looked tired, lol, but they had to be VERY FIT as well. I don't know why I got into all this, but I realize that even though they had it rough in so many ways because NOTHING was instant or came easy, We have our own set of struggles. What we are dealing with is more on a technological level and a sense losing pretty much what we own in this country as the socialistic communistic regime is encroaching upon us as at rapid speed. The sense of the spiritual realm is so much more acute and converging with this physical one where what is being PROJECTED through our tell a vision will be the "norm" in reality. What we are fighting and dealing with is more intense than at any time in history.
So, though we may not exhibit the physical labor as did those who claimed land and built upon this once fertile and beautiful country, we labor emotionally, mentally and spiritually in such a way that you become extremely drained. You sigh, you cry, you pray and find yourself looking up in the sky with that LONGING in your eyes.
The ONLY HOPE any of us have RIGHT NOW and throughout our waiting to be apart from our body and this world, is to KEEP running, sitting, praying and communing with HE WHO KNOWS IT ALL! THE CREATOR, YAHWEH, OUR SAVIOR and REDEEMER, YESHUA! To fall on He who is our SOLID ROCK. It is from that place of falling where we become broken, HUMBLED. Better to fall upon Him and be broken than have the Rock fall on us and we be crushed to powder only to be blown away by every wind and wave of doctrine.
I was really ministered to by the recent audio my dear and precious brother Charles (cunneda) shared called, BE Still And Know That I Am God! This is one I need to hear a few times and let it sink down DEEP, REAL DEEP! If you haven't already heard it, you might want to do so. It's good spiritual nourishment to help us in these stressful times of CONSTANT battling. We need to do all we can to BREAK AWAY from the net and whatever distractions from time to time to just get quiet before Abba. To have Yeshua wash away the slime of the world and whatever else we wage war against. Find that place of Peace in Him from all the NOISE and CLATTER of all that our adversary throws at us. It's time to STOP, LOOK TO HIM and LISTEN!
<3 Linda @->--
