God Love Lake

It is one of my favorite times, working quietly in my studio listening to the leaves hit the ground.  I have to be very tuned in order to realize it is a good day for this and then willingly place myself in a mood and position so that I can participate.  I knew the moment I walked onto our back porch this was such a day.  This may sound a foolish waste of time and even more wasteful to write about but it is a profoundly meaningful gift I have been given.  Life is meant to be lived with meaning, purposeful meaning.  There are only two main rules, love God with all passion and love others as I passionately love myself.  The second often requires most of my emotional and physical energy.  Investing emotionally in others and then physically being with them along their way requires a great deal of my life’s energy.  This makes the first so critical because loving God passionately basically means being completely present with Him, fully attentive, faithfully aware that and who you are present with—consciously, physically, emotionally present.  He is like a great mountain placed before you, a small valley, and the waters of his presence fill the crystal sapphire lake of your valley so that the small stream of your love flows through Mount God to water and nourish the world beyond.  There is no Valley Lee or God Love Lake without Mount God. And that is what listening to the leaves hit the ground is—being present with Mount God, allowing His Spirit of Love to fill my small mountain valley God Love Lake.  John 7:38