To create is to express who you are
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- Jan 20, 2021
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Updated: Jan 20, 2024
Day 85
To create is to express who you are; it matters not the motivation, but only the joy, and thrill, of revealing your heart any way you desire. If there is a conscious effort to discover your heart, and what lies within, then creation is only a revelation of your discovery.
You cannot create something which you are not. So, begin to sense who you are and start creating from that place. You see who you are, and so you can create from what you have seen.
Seeing a child on the shore, playing near the water; bright, warm sun, building in the sand, unconcerned about anything else. Busy making a home, a castle, having a conversation within her imagination. The water laps with a gentle caress. There is joy and happiness. If the water buries what she has made, she happily makes it again.
I see me building a house upon the sand. What else can my imagination see? I can create, I know I am a son because He speaks with me. I can do anything my heart desires.
I have a desk and I move papers, and I am successful; and then I go home; to my new home.
It is easy. I must go deeper than my fears, deeper than what I see, deeper than what I know as an adult. Deeper to the child within. He is always there.
But if you look for Me within then you can create what you see. As you see, pray what you see; that is believing, and so creation can occur. Pray not your desires, or needs, or even that which you already understand, but pray what you see.
I am there almost instantly. I pray for joy, and imagination. I pray for a castle; it must be a home because people live there. I pray the warmth on my back – I am not cold, but feel I am in His presence; I know You are there. I hear the ocean and I know Your goodness is always. Sometimes it sneaks up on me, but that’s nice. It’s welcoming and a pleasure. And if my sand structure falls? Because of Your goodness I know I can just rebuild it, maybe even better. I pray for my happiness.
I move papers just to move them, to look busy. It doesn’t matter if I do anything, just moving papers means I am successful, that I am accomplishing something important. I pray to be done with my work for the day, that I may go home, and be with my family, and enjoy my castle.
I see You, know You, aware of Your gentle goodness. I know You are there, always. I hear You, I feel You, even when I’m in my imagination. No matter what I am doing I am always the boy on the beach. I can always come to that place, be with You, create anything, imagine everything.
It is the search for goodness to a specific issue that will bring about the answer to your question. In this place of safety you can watch Me, and that is what you search for within. Look for My truth, My power and might in response to what I see happening within My creation.
Look not for the ways you can respond but see the ways I am responding; in that way you will learn for what is coming. Look within to see Me, and I will show you the way to pray for that you would wish to see. And you will see it without because you will have seen it within.
For now, I have been occupied with my things, my castle building, my thoughts, my imagination. That is of a child, and to be desired and enjoyed for a time. And not just once, but always. It is the place of rest and peace, of creating, of being; and in time, to be sought, for it is here that healing is, abiding is, peace is, and desire to be.
But I sense a turning around too; I can sit on the beach, in the sand, and do nothing but watch the waves. I can wrap myself in a towel, and just watch the waves coming ashore. I can desire to be in the waves. I can walk the beach and feel the waves on my feet. I can discover what the waves leave behind. I can watch His goodness all the time. It is never the same, always leaves something different, always wonderful.
Galatians 6.9 “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Ecclesiastes 11.1-2 “Ship your grain across the sea; after many days you may receive a return. Invest in seven ventures, yes, in eight; you do not know what disaster may come upon the land.”
And so, I cast the seeds of my heart, my feelings, that what I sense I can give to the greatness and power of His goodness to return to everyone that is within His goodness. It’s throwing a rock, a shell, some sand, and wondering what will happen. His goodness is so immense, so large – to the horizon and yet right here.
I have said I will always be with you; do you ‘see’ that? I have said My goodness shall be revealed in your life with abundance, freedom, a peaceful heart; do you ‘see’ it? I have said My goodness far exceeds the plans of the enemy for America; do you ‘see’ it?
Know that when I speak I create – then know that what I speak can be seen. You now understand a little that what you have heard you can see, and what you see you can now believe, and what you believe has come to pass.
I can be here in summer, where the air is warm, the sun illuminating like white diamonds off the waves of Your goodness. The water is warm, friendly, comforting. I can be here in winter, where the air is cold and the water colder. Yet it is the same goodness, constant, familiar, a friend. There is no difference between the two seasons, just in how my circumstances appear. Yet you are always there, your goodness always present. I look upon Your goodness to see what comes, because I now know that it is this place where I can learn to see.
I see two fishermen carrying a net out to the sea; they are joyful. I look at what they have caught – a fish, just one. I straighten it upon the sand to look at it – it is very sleek, colorful, like a small tuna. I look back to watch them return to the sea. I stay with the fish and continue to watch.
Do not look at what you believe you see for sometimes it is not true, but rather look at the One who speaks to you, and draw strength and power from His words. They are true and will always act and be revealed that way – in truth and power.
And now I not only watch the men return to the sea with their net but begin to see the joy upon their faces as they pursue the things available within that goodness, that are available to all. It is not only that which washes up upon the shore that is given, but everything in His goodness is available to those who pursue it. The catch may be small, but much more significant than what is available to the one who walks the shoreline.
Go into His goodness, go deeper with the intent to discover more. In discovering more, more of Him will be discovered, for He is Goodness. His goodness sustains. It is interesting to me that they have left their catch in the attention of me, as if I am trusted to take care of it as they return to the sea for more. Perhaps there is enough for all and they fear no lack. The next time they come in I would ask to go out with them that I may learn to fish. Are they truth and power, freedom and might, bringing prosperity?
Begin to see in your mind that which you would want to see. It can’t be Me telling you what to do – you must rise and claim that which you have seen. Can you see freedom over confinement – what does it look like to you? Can you see wealth over poverty, overcoming in battle?
The men return to shore, this time with a greater catch. I sort the fish. One fisherman reaches out his hand to me. I take his hand and see myself as a small child again. He’s trusting, so I am not afraid as I head towards the water. It’s wet, but not cold. We’re not deep into it before they bend over to begin separating the net. They cast it further out into the sea. They strain against the pull of the catch within and ask for my help. I reach down to gather the bottom of the net, and pull, and begin walking backwards toward the shore.
Surprisingly, the shore is much further away than I expected; I am much deeper into the water but keep my footing. Finally, we are at the shore; the catch is tremendous as it spills on the shoreline. Many come around to watch us sort the fish. I start handing out the fish to others.
The next pull on the net to shore brings an ornate box; I open it, but it is empty. I rush with the men back out to sea – we are very deep and very far from shore. I strain with the net, but excited to see what is within. It felt so heavy in pulling it in. I found nothing that would fit in the box. I see that my expectation of what I want is sometimes not met; it is much better to allow Him to fill the net with what He wants for me. There is always great joy in that way.
As you have taken a step into a commitment in hearing My voice and are now hearing, perhaps it is time for you to take a step into now seeing. We have shared a bit how that might begin for you – search again for what was said, then build upon it. As in hearing you will begin seeing. Take a step.
I am me once again. I am standing upon the shore looking out into the ocean. I hold the ornate box in my arm. I now know I can walk into goodness at any time, with the joy of a child. I can allow Him to give what it is that I may discover when I do.
I walk in with intention: there is wealth over poverty, but in any form He chooses; there is peace, but in any circumstance I may be placed; there is always freedom, not by standing on the shore with desire, but wading in with expectation of discovery no matter the depth or distance. I am sure-footed and strong enough to gather from His goodness to bring to shore to give to others. And perhaps to put in my box that which would be for me.
I am running into His goodness in the search for the fish that have the coins in its mouth. The fish can be for others; the coins are for my box.
Simon Peter said to them, “I am going to catch fish.” – John 21.3
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