Reflection

Reflection

In the quietness, in the stillness, I am here.

In the place of the pause, I am here.

Just pause and reflect.

In the place of the pause there is reflection.

What is it you see?

The downcast face, the looking down, the downward position, the downward posture, the downward look, the depressed look, the look of great depression. A disturbance of the peace. Then a disturbance of the peace. A drop of your goodness in the place of despair.

A ripple of my goodness.

My goodness, a drop of my goodness.

The sweet taste of my goodness, in the place of bitter taste of despair.

For you see the great fall, the fall of such greatness, for my greatness falls upon you.

Running down your arm, falling from your finger comes a taste of my goodness.

For I am disturbing that which disturbs you.

I am disturbing that which you reflect upon, the image you have of yourself.

Is this the last drop or the first you ask?

Is what you see before you a Great Lake of tears or my oasis of abundance in the desert?

Be not downcast oh my soul, for I will yet praise you!

Let me clear things up for you.

For what is it you now see?

A great flash of lightning in the heavens above, reflected in the water laying on the earth beneath.

For the heavens burst forth with my glory.

For I don’t want to rain on your parade.

Yet I will reign on your parade.

From the heavens above, I will declare my arrival.

For you know how I roll in the natural, first the intense pressure of great darkness, then the bursting forth of the great light, then the great clap of thunder.

For in the place of intense darkness, my light bursts forth, and the very heavens clap applauding the breakthrough, the bursting forth, the announcement of the rain, the proclamation of the one who reigns.

For you feel the pulling down.

For you feel the great pulling down.

The pull downwards.

The pressure to submit.

The call to be prostrate, to bathe in the valley of tears, to wash yourself in the valley of the tears.

Yet in the place of the down, I will lift you up.

Psalms 18:11-16 He made darkness His secret hiding place; as His pavilion (His canopy) round about Him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. Out of the brightness before Him there broke forth through His thick clouds hailstones and coals of fire. The Lord also thundered from the heavens, and the Most High uttered His voice, amid hailstones and coals of fire. And He sent out His arrows and scattered them; and He flashed forth lightnings and put them to rout. Then the beds of the sea appeared and the foundations of the world were laid bare at Your rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of Your nostrils. He reached from on high, He took me; He drew me out of many waters.

For the place of the up, calls to you in the place of the down.

For the up reaches down.

For the one who is up, reaches down to lift up that who is down.

Say to those who are down, be lifted up.

For that which is up calls to that which is down, come up higher.

For the one laid low, shall be lifted up, shall be established, shall be placed upon the high place.

For you feel the call, your very lips proclaim the call, the call to arms, the call to praise, the call to connect, the call of connection.

For deep calls to deep at the sound of your water spouts.

Psalms 42:5-11 Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, my Help and my God. O my God, my life is cast down upon me [and I find the burden more than I can bear]; therefore will I [earnestly] remember You from the land of the Jordan [River] and the [summits of Mount] Hermon, from the little mountain Mizar. [Roaring] deep calls to [roaring] deep at the thunder of Your waterspouts; all Your breakers and Your rolling waves have gone over me. Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, a prayer to the God of my life. I will say to God my Rock, Why have You forgotten me? Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? As with a sword [crushing] in my bones, my enemies taunt and reproach me, while they say continually to me, Where is your God? Why are you cast down, O my inner self? And why should you moan over me and be disquieted within me? Hope in God and wait expectantly for Him, for I shall yet praise Him, Who is the help of my countenance, and my God.

Lift up your voice, and be lifted up, higher and higher, from hiding to prominence, from exile to king, from the pit to the palace.

For I have given you the power to lift up.

Say to that which is down, be lifted up.

To the oppressed, to the captive, to the one in hiding declare, “Come out, come out wherever you are”.

To the one who is down say, “look up”.

To the one who holds you captive, say “be released”.

Say to the one, who lays low, who is laid low, arise for the glory of the Lord is rising upon you.

It shall be glorious.