Jessica L. Morris

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“Prepare my heart, Lord.” Such a silly request, it seems – to ask the One for whom I wait to make my heart ready. And yet, this morning, mere days before His arrival, I hold this grief: the inn of my heart is booked! Booked full ofdistractions worriesfearsselfishnesspride.I loathe how these things lodge in the…

Remembering You and then forgetting again and again and again… Oh, how it illustrates so clearly Isaiah’s words* – for truly I say to You: if You had forgotten me only once I would have walked away forever. *See Isaiah 55:6-9 Painting, Isaiah 55:6 Our Intimacy With God – His Highest Priority, by Mark Lawrence

I am waiting waiting for the Love of Youmy Lord – as You have waited all my lifefor my meager loveto returnto you.How humble and grateful I am now – in this fifty-sixth season of waiting waiting for the Love of Youmy Lord – for the one, or the many, or the few who created…

I cannot experience eternal peace with God in Heaven if I do not have the beginnings of internal peace here on earth. I cannot sense internal peace here on earth if I do not have the courage to face the fear within myself. I cannot muster the courage to face the fear within myself if…

Truth is hard to come by. For thousands of years, prophets have been slain forIt; so who dares speak It? I suppose, only those whose lives It has saved. *Painting by Nikolai Ge (1890)

What if I show up again and offer more?What if I run when I’m too tired to walk?What if I always say yes even when everything inside me screams no?ORWhat if I stop trying so damn hard and simply surrender?

Here, it is so dark even in opening my eyes I cannot see me or anything else and especially not God. This world within the world** from which only I can break free – but how? Here,my feet are shackled to pain my arms weighed heavily with worry; this world within the world** that I…