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This is the second day that my blog reader has a subscription to a prayer wall. http://www.24-7prayer.com/wailingwall/

Normally my prayer is lead by Spirit whispers. This new opportunity to be aware of the heart cries of brothers and sisters is very different. Normally I have a name and no details. With the wall I often have some details, and rarely a name.

I am looking forward to seeing what kinds of new responses this brings from me, and what kind of new tools it calls for.

The really awe inspiring aspect is that everyone posting prayer on the wall really means it. They have both a desire for an answer and enough belief in prayer that they are taking the time to put their hearts on the wall.

I do not know what their expectations are of others here reading, agreeing, interceding. In most cases it looks like they don't really expect us, they just expect God...which is really cool, and most likely the part that really matters.

Father, help me to love these petitioners, and to know how to agree with each one.

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Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms. Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.

Absolutely worthy of total trust. I do not know what the future holds, but I know Who holds my future.

Deeper and deeper. No worthy answer but Surrender. Free falling becomes soaring. The moment of soaring becomes the only moment that matters. There is the thought that the soaring will stop some time, in some fashion. The greater the focus on the wind beneath, the less the change to a new mode is even considered. There will be a new mode, and a new wind, a new provision for that moment and that circumstance. The promise of love never fails. There is a wind, a breeze for every mode.

Thank you, Father for your Holy Spirit.

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Important things can now be important without being crises.

Real heart and energy can be put into the issues of the day, because none of them can drag us of of our foundation. The boundary lines for staying OK are well drawn and accepted. Upon being estabished as OK, the places where there is an intersection of heaven and earth are good places for being in but not of.

Thank you, Father. You make all things new. You make it possible, in fact important, to be in the world. And all the while, I am safe in Your Arms.

Holding on for Dear Life

The wind has not been blowing today. The earth has not been rocking under my feet. Flood waters have not been rising. No one has called with bad news.

I am holding on for Dear Life. Life in the Holy Wild requires holding on for Dear Life. The circumstances of the moment and the day are not the triggers for holding on.

I am holding on for Dear Life because I have tasted and touched and smelled and heard and hugged Dear Life. I am holding on because the way was made for me on the cross not just to experience, but to be able and encouraged to hold on. From this place with my little hands deep in the folds of my Father's robe, the circumstances no longer tempt me to fear. No more do they draw me away from my Father's bosum. What my circumstances do now is to remind me of how loved I am. Because from where I sit, I can see where my Father has brought me from, what I was mired in that He has drawn me out of.

Thank you, Father, for circumstances that glorify you by reminding me of what you have done for me, and for everyone around me.