Filled to Capacity

The big wet.

The big squeeze.

The big splat.

The big spray.

Patterns unexpected.

The spray of the stream, the pattern of the flow without flow.

The imprint of the flow, the crevice of the flow, the impact of the flow.

All will ask. “Where did that come from”

The pool, the river, the stream, the pattern of the flow.

The river bed, not a sign of what once flowed, but a capacity, a place for the flow that is to come.

“Road subject to flooding”

In the place of the dry, I say this path is subject to my flood.

You saw the ripple in the High up place. The pattern in the elevated place. How did that ripple get there you ask?

This is no ancient path, a sign of what once was.

This is a sign of that which is to come.

You look for the trickle, the flowing drop, but look up and see where I have drawn the line.

For its time to rise from the place of the valley.

Come out of the shadows.

Be high and lifted up. Be uplifted. For I am lifting you up.

First your head, then your eyes, then your whole body.

Come out of the mire, the place of the slip, the place without traction, the place of much movement but no progress.

Take off the mud, wash off the mud, I have washed off the mud.

Come up to the new place. Let me show you around. It has a great view.

I call it the place of the pinnacle. The high point. The elevated point. The high light. The high place. The place of dominion.

First a new perspective, now a new posture and new position, a new speech a new revelation, a new declaration, a new presence, a new power, a new rule, a new era!

For the sparks are flying, I’m cutting out a new platform, a new shape, a foundation, a platform for the palace. I’m making some renovations. I’m putting on an extension. The delay is merely an extension. The longer the delay the bigger the capacity.

You see the sparks flying, the sound of the chain. Is not the chainsaw the instrument of the harvest? Is not the felling of the trees to establish a clearing? Does not the presence of the forest presuppose the fulfilment of the promise, the growth of the seed?

For nothing shall flow away, the valley shall be filled to capacity.

2 Kings 3:15-19 But now bring me a minstrel. And while the minstrel played, the hand and power of the Lord came upon Elisha. And he said, Thus says the Lord: Make this dry brook bed full of trenches. For thus says the Lord: You shall not see wind or rain, yet that ravine shall be filled with water, so you, your cattle, and your beasts of burden may drink. This is but a light thing in the sight of the Lord. He will deliver the Moabites also into your hands. You shall smite every fenced city and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree and stop all wells of water and mar every good piece of land with stones.