All I Want

Hope for the new year . . . Cocoon

"This I call to my mind, therefore I hope."  Lamentations 3:21

Hello friends, it has been a long time since I have blogged but I do plan to continue!  I will be sharing with you a new (organic) format for my poems to be developed into an App for the Iphone and more. 

I would so appreciate your prayer for this project as a way that I might reach girls, in particular, with the hope and life that they can find in knowing Jesus.  Each soul poem will be unique and hopefully appealing to the next generation. 

With many of them, I will include artwork from the stamps of Laura Campbell, (www.layersofcolor.com).  She is an amazing artist and friend. (This one does not utilize her artwork.)

May I encourage you to step into the new year with HOPE to become more and more who He created YOU to be~ no matter what COCOON you may find yourself in right now. . .  There is hope in the struggle, the pain you endure. God is refining, making you pure . . .   Happy NEW YEAR indeed!

Into the warmth of light

Silk

Butterfly Bush

Butterfly Bush

Elusive beauty

how do I capture Thee?

Ruby wings etched with a golden rim

uneven lines and shapes-

an unimaginable, perfect

creation

rests in stillness

on an azure blossom

as lapis lazuli and sapphires.

Peaches and I

watch in wonder,

wait for the slightest

quiver.

Courageously,

she moves

gently, silently

as only a golden retriever can,

for a closer look-

one chunky paw

slowly

after another.

She stops,

rests her nose on top

of the Butterfly bush,

smells the sweet scent

arouses response.

Butterfly beauty

lifts in flight

flutters out of sight

as two companions

lost in contemplation

wish to be

a Butterfly Bush

like Thee!

                        Janie Seltzer

Come still and fill your soul with us . . .

“I shall open my eyes and ears. Once every day, I shall stare at a tree, a flower, a cloud, or a person. I shall not then be concerned at all to ask what they are but simply be glad that they are. I shall joyfully allow them the mystery of what C.S. Lewis calls their “divine, magical, terrifying and esctatic” existence.”  (Clyde Kilby)

Come worship the Creator of heaven and earth with us today 

in the Outdoor Sanctuary 

of the Hidden Life House (our home, 7218 Durango Circle, Carlsbad, CA) at 10:00am.

Coffee will be waiting . . .  Peaches is waiting . . . (Rudy, pictured with Peaches, is home with Dustin Leigh and Luke; Sweden is home with John Mark.)

But most of all, Jesus waits with Don (and me) . . .  for you to come so that "your roots may go down deep into the soil of God's marvelous love" (Ephesians 3:17).

"I pray that you will begin to understand the incredible greatness of His power for us who believe Him. This is the same mighty power that raised Christ from the dead and seated Him in the place of honor at God's right hand in the heavenly realms . . . For He raised us from the dead along with Christ, and we are seated with Him in the heavenly realms all because we are one with Christ Jesus. And so God can always point to us as examples of the incredible wealth of His favor and kindness toward us, as shown in all He has done for us through Christ Jesus."  

(Ephesians 1:19-20; 2:6-7).


Hidden Life Ministries:  "Your real life is hidden with Christ in God" (Colossians 3:3)

Reality of God: Cultivating His presence

"Christ becomes more real to the one who persists in the cultivation of His presence . . . The reality of Jesus comes as a result of secret prayer and a personal study of the Bible that is devotional and sympathetic."  Maltbie D. Babcock

 

If you are a female and desire to learn more about the cultivation of His presence, come to an upcoming mini-Retreat-

"Spa for the Soul DAY Retreat" or  or email janie@hiddenlife.com.