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Revelation: How to Open the Eyes of Your Heart
Revelation is a curious occurrence. The word itself means a disclosure of information by a supernatural source in most dictionaries. As I played with the word, I broke it into two parts, ‘revel’ and ‘elation’ because they describe how I feel when the Lord shows me something I did not know before. I’m aware that the word’s root is about revealing but I don’t believe that all word constructions are accidental. I revel in the revelatory. Though God has opened up scriptures or whispered pieces of wisdom to my spirit, a particular revelation comes to mind when I go through my catalog of spiritual happenings. I attended a conference at…
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What Your Metaphors Reveal About You
One of my favorite metaphors is in Alice Walker’s essay, Beauty, When the Other Dancer is the Self. In it, she writes about her blind eye resulting from a BB gun injury from one of her brothers. She charts her relationship with her blind, scarred eye, from painful adolescence to the moment when her little girl first notices it. “You have a world in your eye,“ says her daughter, carefully observing what is left of the scar tissue. All at once, her eye becomes a metaphor for the internal worlds inside Walker that have grown because of the injury. I have posted a link at the end so you can…
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At the Foot of the Strong Tower; a Revelation of Light
My youngest calls me by my first name. Many mothers would find this disrespectful, but it is needs must with us. You see, I don’t always answer to Mom. I’m a writer, and so I spend a lot of my time in the whirl of ideas in my head. For some reason, the word, Mom, doesn’t always pierce my consciousness. But float out the name, Alice, and my attention is yours. I have been a parent of six for thirty years, so I have no excuse or reason why this would be so. Fortunately God is not as scatterbrained as I am, and He has names for us to call…
Healing Through Art & Words
