A couple of years ago, God was giving me a personal love letter for a person. As I was communing with Him for this person’s letter, Holy Spirit showed me a big gondola wheel. 

Then He showed me that there are times when it feels like we are rising on the front of the gondola. During that time, we can see everything ahead of us. As we rise to the top–we can take in the view for miles from the elevated position and the openness of having nothing in the way. 

Yet, there are also times that we all go through when everything is like a descent of the gondola. During that time, our view is obstructed. Instead of seeing the wide open views of everything that is happening right before us, we can only see the back side of the wheel. 

As the gondola circles around the back, we can see the underside of the surrounding seats, but we can not see clearly all of our surroundings. 

When we are circling around the back side of things, that is when fear can be present, because we cannot see everything in front of us. During those times, there is uncertainty. 

Uncertainty is the breeding ground of fears, and so many times our minds will wander into thoughts of the worst case things coming out. The darkness plays tricks with what we see, because of the scary shadows that it casts of what may or may not happen. 

It is during that time, when fears are knocking at the door, that we need to lean into hope with all of our hearts. 

Once, I was traveling through a time of my life that was like the backside of the gondola. As I was getting bothered by the fears of not being able to “see” what is going on, God showed me bananas. 

Then, He gave me my own personal love letter about the gros-michel banana and that my hopes is what will be done if I press into them with all of my heart. 

Our hopes are like the original bananas that used to exist, called gros-michel. They were seedless and had the sweetest flavor you could imagine. It has been told that they tasted just like banana candy, such as banana Laffy taffy. 

In the 1950s, a fungus attacked those banana plants, and eventually, that fungus outbreak invaded and destroyed all of those sweet and wonderful bananas from the past. 

Fear (both thoughts of fear and fearful imaginations) is like a fungus that kills the sweetest fruit of our hopes. Bananas are like hope to me because they have literally no bitterness to them, they are delightfully sweet and they are super filling. Also, the gros-michel bananas had no hard seeds in the flesh of the fruit, which made them really easy to eat and enjoy. 

Fear is like a curse that the enemy uses to get us into agreement. Like a fungus spreading through banana crops, the enemy sends fearful thoughts, illusions, and bad dreams to get us fixated on believing that those fears are true. 

However, the Holy Spirit has always taught me to never agree with a fear, whether it is a bad dream, fearful imagination, or dreadful thoughts. 

He showed me that we are like little children with the creative paint or play doh, and He gives us the freedom to sculpt our hopes into our reality and not what we fear or dread. He also gave me a promise and that is, “the opposite of our fears is a promised outcome”. 

Like all of His promises, in order for them to yield fruit, we have to align our thoughts, emotions, and imaginations to His promise/ or what we hope to be done. 

I remember going through a trial and there was a terrifying situation that was plaguing my mind of something bad that could happen. 

I remembered my banana letter from God and I decided to use it like a key to open up a door to my hopes. 

Instead of entertaining the ideas of fearful things happening, I only thought about what I hoped for. When my faith was failing, and I barely had enough faith to believe, I would just hope and hope and hope. 

I remember telling God, “I hope that this will happen” and I would say it over and over, until the sweetness of my hopes dissolved away the bitterness of every fear. 

God rewarded my choice to hope and not fear with the outcome that I was hoping for. Hope is powerful, and the personal love letters are a like a key to help you through different cycles of your life. 

I like to think of them as a map to what is ahead and a recipe for a successful outcome. They are a key to help see your hopes arrive and not your fears or worries. 

However, like any other key, it does not do anything if they are not placed in the keyhole and turned to open the door. It takes a decision to trust, believe, and hope that this will be how everything unfolds. 

Just as each passing day is different from the one before, each time a letter is received, it holds a different treasure to unfold. Sometimes it is for a treasure that is far ahead, and other times it is a treasure that is hidden right under your hands. 

I cannot even express how passionate I am about these personal love letters. Sometimes God will have me reveal them more like a glacier too. When we look at a glacier, we see the lovely top side, but not the vast and incredible depths that are underneath. 

When I do the letters with Jesus, it is like an iceberg. God gives me so much work underneath them–with treasures, promises, revelations, etc.–but then I only present you with the finished smoothed out letter. 

Yet they go so much deeper than anyone knows. It is a long process to create one, and I put 100 percent into them to ensure that you only have the very best. 

Sometimes instead of giving a letter that only reveals the uppermost finished product, I will take people through the underside so that they can see the depths behind each revelation, prophetic symbols, and prophetic word. 

During those types of letters, people are opened up to a world of so many fantastic things. It is like seeing the rough draft of a document with so many treasures and notes tucked inside. 

I am so passionate about doing these letters because they have helped me survive in times that I probably shouldn’t have. They have been my breath of air when I was drowning in the waves, and they have been the lifeboat that has rescued me when I was lost at sea. 

All my love! Dannette

May your hopes come to fulfillment, like the sweetest bananas you’ve ever tasted!