Handpicked for a Time such as This

Some call it prayer.

I’m reeling at the noise of our earth-

We meet in a Place deep inside: like a Vineyard.
The conversation is imaged in vineleaf, the graft, grape, the crushing
Father Gardener, the Tender.
Christ, the Vine, in Whose cut, a wild Branch is grafted.
ShilohPeace.
Also the Place where Hannah prayed.

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me, like Hannah, in the steps of Tabernacle Shiloh; praying, her syllables drunk in need.

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The Gardener’s eyes are ripe with light. Here, my heart keels. The noise has gotten inside. Hate has made us hate. Indifference makes us indifferent. How understand a garden if I’m at “peace” in a desert-

how taste nectar if we ‘re sold only Bitters?

Oh Gardener of Soul – tell me who I am in this Era of erasing each other: girl from Ukraine, boy on the bus with the knife, man with bullet in neck, one on the roof with the gun; our Punjabi Swiggy man speechless at the flood, oh that KissScam exposing global need for gossip, war mongers, in bazaars rich with poverty of the worst kind – greed

I’ve walked into these Gates of Vineyard Shiloh, – arrest my noise; help me find Earth’s assassin, & make sense of nonsense…

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when He speaks, He leaves conversations in every twig, twine and stem – Words are the vein of leaves.

He converses with an emotion I do not get till the noise in me simmers to a whisper. “Father, tell me who I am..”

He is stronger than hate. Higher than suspicion. Wider than doubt. If I speak in the language of angels, but do not have This, I am a loud clanging cymbal. This changes everything. This is a memory of tomorrow. Its a promise made to a vow.

Am here to stay now, a branch grafted in a Sacred wound that heals in ways I couldn’t have guessed, without this parable of a grafting.

Its not a good season now? The Gardener has no request of the sun. He only has a request of you & me. To be Salt & Light, city on a hill. Who else would – except those born in this hour, here, now, asking questions ?

I am a tree, planted by His streams of living water, here to fruit a season. Yea, for such a Time as this,

a Season of Soul, @Vineyard Shiloh

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9 responses to “Handpicked for a Time such as This”

  1. […] HANDPICKED FOR A TIME AS THIS […]

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    1. Thank you my dear friend🙏🏼🎶🌷

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  2. Beautiful. So wonderfully spoken.

    Visiting today from FMF #10

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    1. So glad you were here Paula🌷thankyou for your kind words. Blest 🙏🏼🌷🎶

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  3. So wonderful a meditation!

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    1. Muri🙏🏼😊 God bless 🌷

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