As I am writing this, it is a race against time. I feel like a Ginkgo tree, whose leaves are breaking down, and preparing to drop with a final surrender. Over the weekend, my laptop charger broke, and I have been trying to not use my computer, while waiting for the replacement charger.
However, there were delivery issues with the place we are staying at and the laptop charger is lost somewhere in the delivery heap in the building, It is looking like I will need to find a new one, and now I am trying to share a word with you, before the computer completely dies and turns off.
I have felt like a Ginkgo tree with our present journey. The Lord lovingly and generously gave us 2 full months at the Airbnb apartment in downtown Chicago, and now we are on our last few days, before following God to the next destination of His plans for us.
In the midst of change, there have been a swirling of emotions to facing the “yellow brick road” to Promise ahead. There have been several things that God promised would happen before we left, and it feels like that time could quickly run out, with no sign of those promised events.
Yet today in my prayers and cries to God over all the unspoken things we are facing, that feels like my own ending, the Lord reminded me of a Ginkgo tree and how the ‘breaking down’ is the first sign of the golden beauty coming out.
Because the beauty of seeing “GOLD” of fulfillment comes when we reach the end of our own ability and strength. It may feel like waiting and waiting to finally see the gold of fulfillment, and like we are being broken down, like Ginkgo leaves from the outside struggles and pressures.
However the feeling being “broken down” is the sign that there is about to be a release. Like a Ginkgo tree that breaks down from the chemical change, the blessing is at that time of feeling like you’ve got nothing left.
Then, all of a sudden, the Ginkgo tree turns into a glistening gold of lavish beauty, and it drops the captivating golden leaves to the ground, all at the same time. In one big ‘ta da’ moment, the fulfillment comes, revealing the yellow brick road of a mass fulfillment of Promise.
So if you are feeling like you are at the end today, then celebrate and look for the “gold” of fulfillment to show up all at once. Because the glory of it all, is seeing His power moving through our place of weakness and need.
Our weakness and need is a place of honor, a place of blessing. It is the place where God’s intentional love is visibly felt and seen. In feeling broken down, crushed, and unable to take another step….that is when the fulfillment of GOLD promise will swiftly and abruptly show up….all at once.
I am out time….until the battery comes LOL.
Sending you warm hugs,
Love,
Dannette
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