October 4th, 2022 – 5:14am – CX 675 – Cathay Pacific Flight From Hong Kong to Tel Aviv, Israel:

Being alone has given me so much time to not only spend with God but to consider my life up until this moment. Also I’ve had a great deal of time to think about the future of this life I am living.

I am beginning to read a new book I bought to on my kindle app… and in the first chapter there was something said about the dash on our headstone and it’s true meaning. What do all the days of our lives add up to? What has true meaning? What matters when the curtain falls and we are faced with the end of this life?

I had a seven hour layover in Hong Kong and during that time I met a man in the terminal. Dan. We talked, sat, and walked in circles for a long while just enjoying the company and conversation. Connection.

And so now as I sit here alone on a full flight of people heading to a country where I know no one to do whatever God has planned for me there… I think of all the people I have met in my lifetime. My parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, boyfriends, girlfriends, and on and on. For me there are too many to count. I could sit and think about each moment with each of them and I feel blessed. Moments. I had moments with them… and in those moments I know I loved them… and loved them deeply. Each one so unique and vibrantly full of life in their uniqueness.

Blessed.

The future for me is unknown. I don’t even know where I will sleep tonight… but I know God. And I know if He gets His way then there will be many, many more people I’ll meet and connect with along my journey home to Him.

So today, if you’ve come here to read this… think of the significance of moments. Each one matters. Who is in your life? Do you really appreciate them? Do you take the time to tell them what they mean to you? To you stop everything to catch their attention and say, “Hey, I see you. I hear you. You are loved by me.”

If you know me as you read this then I want to say that to you. The time we had together meant something to me. Those moments shared. They blessed me and gave me life. So thank you. Thank you for being in my life. Thank you for walking this journey with me for the moments I had to give you. I’m sorry I had to go.

I also have been reflecting on the vision God gave me of my death far in the future and you know what stands out? Not the people… no in the vision I die alone. But it’s God in that vision. He is there with me and you can sense the deep connection He and I have in those final moments of my life. (If you want to read this vision of my death it’s found in the back of Part 2 of Restoring The Seventh Color).

How I love His voice! How I love to hear His whisper to me. No matter what He asking of me He has always asked it as a friend. “Will you?” He asks. And I say, “Yes, I will.” Not perfectly yet… no… but more and more the yes comes quickly.

So as I touch down in Israel and into the unknown I pray that you my friend will always seek God and I pray He will make Himself know to you.

And so until we meet again I say, “I love you friend. Be blessed.”

Let’s see what God has planned today…

“God defines success in terms of faith, not just professed belief in him, but active, daily, risk-taking trust like that of the great people of Hebrews 11. Trust and faithfulness form the foundation of every relationship.” – John Burke, Soul Revolution

“All these died in faith [guided and sustained by it], without receiving the [tangible fulfillment of God’s] promises, only having seen (anticipated) them and having welcomed them from a distance, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. Now those who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a country of their own. And if they had been thinking of that country from which they departed [as their true home], they would have had [a continuing] opportunity to return. But the truth is that they were longing for a better country, that is, a heavenly one. For that reason God is not ashamed [of them or] to be called their God [even to be surnamed their God—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob]; for He has prepared a city for them.”

– Hebrews 11:13-16 AMP

I go to Israel because God has asked me to go. He has given me very little information about why I am going. But just as I have now seen… with my stop over in South Korea, what powerful things God has used me to do. Ripple effects across the earth because of obedience. So I’ll keep “Listening And Obeying”… with eyes toward eternity… a heart after God… brighter and brighter until the perfect noon day sun.

Time to land.