The Cosmic High 5
I really hope this article won’t be too esoteric, but I’ve been having some thoughts that I had to share just to put my feelers out on them. These thoughts have literally exploded in my mind as of late. You know…the kind of thoughts that you generally hear from a person high on marijuana, but I promise I’m sober and in my right mind! For example, I learned a few months ago that the currents that affect bodies of water are mirrored by the currents that affect the air! It only makes sense, but to know that water and air mirror one another as a CONCEPT blows my mind.
Another example: my friend Paul McKinley gave me this little tidbit while we were puff-puff-giving one another encouraging words from the Bible. He said that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, but storm systems originate in the west and culminate in the east. DEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!
I was out for a walk (trying to be a team player on this 50 million pound challenge) one day, and a picture generated in my mind about these two concepts. If the water flows like a mirror to the air, eventually they are bound to meet up (remember the process of precipitation in elementary school?). And if the sun flows perpindicular to a storm system, they, too are guaranteed to collide at a certain point in time!
Even in my love for sports, I can see this taking place! The quarterback is trained to “throw to a spot” instead of directly to a person. The receiver is trained to do whatever he has to do to get to that designated spot. In basketball, we call that “anticipating the pass.”
To pull this into the supernatural, I can see God using my current stormy circumstances as a tool to meet me where I need Him the most! He works from the end to the beginning, and His Son rose in the east, and will eventually settle in the west (probably somewhere in Southern California where it never rains LOL). The storms I’m encountering right now in my life were generated from my beginning to the end. If I keep pressing through this situation, making my calls, paying my bills, getting out of this debt one step and one dollar at a time, eventually, the storm is going to collide with the greater Force of God.
But somewhere in my mind, I think this is a set up! Let’s be real…God can use whatever He wants to get my attention. By any means necessary, He will ensure that I don’t fall for ignoring Him in my decisions and placing all my stock and value in what I already know from experience. I think He hired this doggone storm to hit my life right at this time.
In reality, if the financial storm we’re going through had come a year sooner, we probably would be homeless by now. Creditors don’t play, y’all! No amount of praise dancing and praying in tongues will alleviate the fact that they want their money that you no longer have the ability to pay them. Yet this year, the entire nation is in a recession. I’m not thanking God for the recession, but I’m sho nuff thanking Him that we got caught up in our situation during a time when creditors are getting paid to be a little more understanding and patient with folks!
The grace and mercy of God ASTOUND me! I’m dumbfounded by it, because I know my husband and I made this mess of our money on our own, by ourselves, yet God had the foresight to hire a storm to hit us during this time so He could finally get through to our hard heads that we don’t necessarily need more money, but more wisdom, which He has in ample and free refillable supply! He’s definitely getting His money’s worth out of this storm, because our ears and eyes are open to whatever it is He wants to teach us.
So there’s this Cosmic High 5 getting ready to take place in our lives that we have to prepare ourselves for! During this time, we can’t stop in the middle of the storm and act like we’re too tired or discouraged to press on. It’s crunch time, and there ain’t no stopping us now! This is one heavyweight battle that I can’t afford to lose. There’s too much on the line.
We’ve got a divine appointment with DESTINY on the other end of this storm! I’ve got to meet God face to face, because I know after all this, I’ll be able to see Him as He is…my body won’t die because I’ll be dead to all this fleshly foolishness that caused me to get into this predicament in the first place! Somewhere between all this rain, hail, sleet, snow and tornado, I know God is there, leading me through it. I know I will see Him more clearly once the storm subsides. And I also appreciate Him for giving His hired storm a high five for the role it played in getting me to His desired destination.
BMWK, the above photo is a picture of a pulsar (a dying star that emanates a lot of light, creating ghostly images from afar) that put forth an image of a hand as its life was waning! Talk about a cosmic high 5! What kinds of cosmic high fives have you experienced, and what did you learn once the storms were over?
God bless!
~ Harriet
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Harriet
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Jonesi
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Leslie Wright
BMWK Partners
