Butterfly Vuela

Tag: healing

  • The Way Out!

    The Way Out!

    Today I am making decisions and carrying on by faith and choice, and boy is that needed. I don’t always feel brave, I don’t always find it easy to get my instructions from the Lord and stick to them, but it is a good work he is doing in me and coming to him often is a good thing. I think I will share what I wrote this morning with you.

    I am still learning and growing. I humble myself before you Lord, today! I need your healing, wisdom, and guidance. Proverbs 27:12 A prudent man foresees evil and hides himself; The simple pass on and are punished. In the center of my garden Lord, is this that or is it Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion?

    The Master Gardener: I have heard your request and I see your heart. Follow my lead, watch me, and follow my instruction! Me: Yes Lord- I submit my full life to you and I follow your lead now.

    I struggled with some of the same things I have brought to him, but the point is I have come to him for help. He is the one that sees all and has the way out and forward. I pray for your joy today friend and courage!

  • Acceptance!

    Acceptance!

    Lord trees have been uprooted from my garden. We also have taken up many weeds and here we are in the center of the garden where the tree we just removed has left behind unseen mess. How I know this is, this morning you sent me a love note with insight, beauty, and truth in it. And doubts and unbelief began to creep in right after. Was it from you? Was it a moth and not a butterfly? Was it not you telling me I have become that butterfly, etc. But it was a butterfly- I checked! Thank you Lord. I receive your truth about me! Forgive me, I turn away from doubt and unbelief. I guess that tree left roots and weeds underneath. Will you help me pull them up today? Let’s start to plant new trees and plants to fill up this garden with You and Your life! The master gardener replied: Yes!!!

    It is what God says about you and I that matters. That is the truth! And when he needs to show us something in our lives that is unpleasant we can swiftly deal with it by turning to him in surrender and he will help us! Song of Solomon 6:3 I am my beloved’s, And my beloved is mine. He feeds his flock among the lilies.

  • A Step Out of Victimhood!

    A Step Out of Victimhood!

    My day began a little worn feeling. I had a question or two for the Master Gardener. As we worked the water from a pond in the Center of my garden caught my eye. A glint of light danced in one corner. The Master Gardener told me I could go take a look, so I set down my tools and went to the edge. He stirred the water and let me see, if I dared, my own reflection. I began to look and then see. He told me I would need to face what I saw there, if I really want to be free. For you see footholds remained in me, that had to be shunned and turned from. Things in me had to be faced in order to be free. So I looked, I faced myself, then Him- The Truth. I let go, I repented. Things in me were wrong. Not just things done to me. He helped me forgive myself and others and now I must go for He is beckoning me into the water to baptize me a fresh in his love and I must go!

  • The Applecart Overturned!

    The Applecart Overturned!

    A storm blew through my (our) lives, and toppled everything remaining. Is that a bad thing? No. Has there been loss and great pain? Yes. However, on this Monday I am here to say that it has been worth the cost! You see, there were important places in my (our) lives that were not in their (there) proper places. Yet seeing them fully and then knowing what to do, had not been clear. Now that the applecart has been overturned, visibility and clarity are here. Today, by faith, I walked out of the stronghold and fully into my garden with the King. Yes, this is how it should have been from the beginning, but He restores so beautifully! I am sure there are surprises ahead, finally I am free!

  • For Purpose!

    For Purpose!

    There is a lot to do in my garden this week. I want to sit and enjoy, but first the work must begin. Sowing seeds for a fall harvest today, this means i need to work the ground and ready my soil and I am seeking the help of the Master gardener to help me in this stage. I sometimes mistake weeds for plants and plants for weeds. There may be a few plants to keep and place in another part of the garden. I also have a lot of learning to do today. It is wonderful to be alive and to begin to be more intentional in my garden. Even the pain takes on new meaning and at the end of even today, I will be able to sit and reflect and enjoy some of the fruits of my labour! I am not labouring alone, I found this doesn’t work, Jesus is hear guiding and providing for me. I am in a season where maybe one or two others step into this garden, but I have areas now only for me and Him. It is becoming a larger part of my garden too, but I see now that this is by design and not to punish me or others, it is for purpose! I pray you ask and yield to the guiding and help of Jesus in your own life! He loves you and so do I!!!

  • Stand Your Ground

    Stand Your Ground

    I came into the garden early this morning. As I set out to accomplish my tasks and enjoy the day I was met with the usual challenges. The usual challenges were not ready for me! I however, saw them and carried on. I stood through each uncomfortable moment and they passed. As they passed the reality that I am no longer the same hit, and it is sweet. I overcame and I am still standing! A quiet day of reflecting and a new me! God is good, the sun is sweet and Life is good!!!

  • Wade in the River

    Wade in the River

    Today I have gone down to the river to swim. There has been a long spell of learning this morning and growing. It has taken hard and dedicated work. I took time to sit and absorb all I learned, and now it is time to wade into the river and swim. I welcome the refreshment. It is important to continue on in the learning and standing my ground, but refreshment and rest are just as key! Friend I hope you live today! I have, and I pray you grow too!!!

  • Center Garden

    Center Garden

    Today I am beginning with watering the new apple trees in the previously neglected space. They have new tender shoots! Things are now in order and established and I can tend to the surrounding areas of my whole garden. It has been a very needed time to put into this center garden, this is what I will call it going forward. Even yesterday I was unsure if things were sorted in it. As time has progressed today and I am back and reflecting, I see that the work is done and I now only need to tend to it regularly, like the whole garden. I guess it was just the perfect time in my life to venture into the inner part of my garden, find it in much disrepair and then sort it out. I had forgotten about it, and to be honest, there was some of it I was not even aware of being in existence! However shocking this may be, it was cruelty, pain and control that shrouded it from my sight. Now I can learn, discover and grow in all areas of my life. I pray your joy is full today friend. I hope you invite the Master gardener into your plot…He has such a way with our lives and causing them to bloom!!! I am currently looking back at him and we are sharing a knowing smile. For it is Him and I alone that know what a miracle my garden has become!!!

  • More Surprises!

    More Surprises!

    I have been planting seeds the last couple of days, in the spot that had been neglected and in another’s garden. I am very happy that I have gotten to this stage. There was a bit of an interruption, and it was rough. I found after clearing the land and getting the boundaries reestablished that one of the main corner trees had to come down. Oh my, at any other time I think the removal of this tree could have broke me, but it happened so suddenly and when the rot was exposed I realized I had prepared for this removal, eventually. With not much thought we pulled that tree out, and then the next day my emotions had to catch up. I almost regretted it, but I gave a few more minutes to the distress and loss and quickly moved past into the new. Now this tree was a part of the boundary and a staple, but to my surprise I found the head gardener had been working on the boundary behind the scenes to help me. Jesus is so good. Everything is ok and another new stage of life and this garden have begun and I am back to planting! So many twists and turns, and it is all progress!

  • Healing My Garden

    Healing My Garden

    Yesterday, I reestablished the fence and borders in a neglected part of my garden. Now it is time to till the soil of that cleared ground. Today I am focused on removing the stones and leveling the ground. The gentle rain that fell through the night has revealed the uneven places and bitter places (stones). These both are a natural part of the process, but not to be the final outcome in my garden. Every step in order and at the proper time. And who knows, maybe tomorrow it will be time to sow! Lord help me on this step and the next too!!