Unlikely people will want to talk to you about God.
Holy dreams and visions increase.
Peace between nations and people groups that was not thought possible.
Areas of undisturbed peace despite what is happening elsewhere.
Forgiveness in families and restoration.
A great desire for purity.
New cures for old diseases.
Restoration. Redemption. Now is the time to look up.
Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying:
“Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you may now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all nations: a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and the glory of your people Israel.”
Luke 2:28-32
Then came the Festival of Dedication at Jerusalem.
It was winter, and Jesus was in the temple courts walking in Solomon’s Colonnade.
John 10:22-23
He brought me out to a wide open place.
He rescued me because He
delighted in me.
2 Samuel 22:20
Psalm 18:19
1. If someone wanted to really understand you, what would they read, watch, and listen to?
They would listen to the story of someone rescued from darkness.
They would watch a baby learning to stand, then crawl, then walk.
They would listen to the joyful sound (simcha) of a person born blind who can suddenly see. They would read the Word of God, the Bible, cover to cover, slowly, with purpose.
2. Have you ever found a writer who thinks just like you?
Frank Herbert, maybe.
3. Do you care about your ethnicity?
It doesn't matter, but I am curious.
4. What musical artists have you most felt connected to over your lifetime?
Before the Lord changed my heart, a plethora of screaming ninnies as blind as me.
Now, none.
5. Are you an artist?
Yes.
6. Dog person or cat person?
More dog than cat, though more alpaca and llama than either of those.
7. Inside or outdoors?
Both.
8. Five most influential books over your lifetime:
The Bible
Same Kind of Different As Me (Ron Hall and Denver Moore)
Hinds Feet on High Places (Hannah Hurnard)
Battlefield of the Mind (Meyer)
Transgression (Randall Ingermanson)
9. Would you rather be in Middle Earth, Narnia, Hogwarts, or somewhere else?
Middle Earth with the Earth-saving Hobbits or Narnia with Lion Jesus.
10. List the top 5 things you spend the most time doing, in order.
Laundry
Praying
Sleeping
Listening
More laundry
11. Have you ever felt like you had a “mind-meld” with someone?
No.
You all keep your minds to yourselves!
12. Could you live as a hermit?
Yes, but with my kids and husband there.
13. Do you feel like your outside appearance is a fair representation of the “real you”?
I am what I appear to be.
14. Three songs that you connect with right now.
Simon Khorolskiy's "Heaven is my Home" (an oldie he re-did)
Paul Wilbur's "Shalom Jerusalem"
The Shema
15. Pick one of your favorite quotes.
"In this galaxy, there is a mathematical probability of three million
Earth-type planets. And in all of the universe,
three million million galaxies like this.
And in all of that
and perhaps more,
only one of each of us."
Dr. Leonard McCoy
(This appeared in a Star Trek episode written by Paul Schneider.)
God
is more
merciful
than any person.
Do you think you can't be forgiven?
Is that what you think?
Matthew 2:6
And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah,
are by no means least among the rulers of Judah;
for from you shall come a ruler
who will shepherd my people Israel.
Micah 5:2
But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,
who are too little to be among the clans of Judah,
from you shall come forth for me
one who is to be ruler in Israel,
whose coming forth is from of old,
from ancient days.
In the way the shadows hide
When the sun begins to rise
And in the way the world comes alive
At the first hint of spring
The frozen rivers run
The death of winter comes undone
Whispers of Kingdom come
While the bluebird sings
Everything
Everything that I thought I knew
Everything
Everything sad is coming untrue
From the war torn city streets
To the trash the slum dogs eat
It seems so hard to believe
And meaningless to pray
But in Rwanda's killing fields
Forgiveness blooms and heals
And the power of love reveals
The Kingdom come today as
Life is coming alive
Death is destined to die
And love
When we learn to live again
And let forgiveness win
There's no wound that love won't mend
And finally redeem
The Son of God woke in the ground
The angel laid the soldiers down
To bring the King his crown
Oh, I believe
Life is coming alive
Death is destined to die
And love
Jason Gray
