Is it a test?
As I listen to the song “When You Believe” from the movie Prince of Egypt, it tells me:

"There can be miracles when you believe....
though hope is frail it’s hard to kill...
who knows what miracle you can achieve when you believe somehow you will..."

We are now between Passover and Pentecost, and I recently heard a powerful message from a friend about this transition period as a test.
I was reminded that during this same time in biblical history Jesus’s disciples were in disarray as they were trying to come to terms with what had just happened to their saviour, teacher, friend and Messiah. What did He tell them to do but to wait in Jerusalem until Pentecost.
And during this same season we remember the Israelites deliverance from the plague and from slaves to free men. Transitioning from slave mentality to a freedom mentally and yet God had sent them off with all of their captor’s gold.
At this time, many voices are clamouring for my attention...
But I keep hearing a steady whisper and it says:
“Look at the nations and watch— and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.”
‭‭Habakkuk‬ ‭1:5‬ ‭NIV‬‬
I pause and consider these words...my thoughts race
“Can it be Lord...”
My flesh battles within me and wants to believe the evil reports.
Can I trust His words of truth, hope and comfort for a future for us all?
Deep in my soul, my resounding answer is:
Yes



Helene

It was almost a year ago that the Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral was burning.

I recently had a conversation with a French citizen and he told me that the best firefighters in his country are in Paris.

Who survived this disaster that burned most of the church?
The bees.....the name Deborah means bee!
We Deborahs are often referred to as bees.

Perhaps this picture is a prophetic reminder that as we go through this current fire we will survive. We learned last year, from a newspaper article that these amazing little winged creatures get drunk on smoke, peacefully fall asleep and live.

What lesson can we learn from these bees?

Could it be that as we get filled with the Holy Spirit we will be at peace even in the fire.

“When you walk through the fire you will not be burned the flames will not set you ablaze” Isaiah 43:2.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
May God keep us in perfect peace as we focus on Him, not the virus or the chaos that it’s brought.
​
Hélène Milne

“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies so that people will in fact have their liberties taken from them but will rather enjoy it because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems like the final revolution.”
- Aldous  Huxley, Tavistock group, California Medical School 1961

No Truer words were said than these, and over 50 years ago!
The question is
What did Huxley know.....as we Canadians enter the one year anniversary of the national (no less) legalization of Cannabis.  
I’ve heard that some states like Colorado have experienced this liberal idea first hand.
A report from one of the locals said that there are still drug dealers selling it (at a lower price), which was one of our PM’s argument for implementing this law.  Secondly it has brought many of America’s homeless to their state because they can be on a constant high and last but not least, it turns out, that it has become a gateway drug...
Wow
Lucky for u  (!)
Was our PM thinking of his children or ours for that matter, and all these factors when he instituted this law.

Another good question.

What’s the purpose for this?

Could there be any truth to Huxley’ s statement?
Is the purpose to create docility, a zombie like state so as to increase the deception and to bring a nation under a rulership without resistance?

What’s going on here.

..So many questions.

​Helene

“17 years we’ve been hiding.
When you’re hiding you’re safe because people can’t see you.
But funny thing about hiding,
you’re even hidden from yourself”
                                                Joy Mangano

I thought this phrase was interesting and it peeked my curiosity.  It comes from the movie Joy.
This story is about a woman who overcomes many obstacles to find herself and her long lost dreams.
I would highly recommend a viewing or two!  
What captured my attention in this quote was the concept of hiding...
The question is :
What makes any of us hide?
Why do we hide in the first place... from ourselves, our own abilities, potential or talents.
.....Is it the fear of being who we really are, the fear of taking a risk?
Or is it the fear of failure or fear of rejection?  I
n this story, life and all its pressures contribute to the extinguishing of the dream. But as the story unfolds, Joy, the main character, awakens to the gift she has known was present in her all along and with fearless gumption pursues her abilities boldly and without recanting. 
This movie touched me and awakened me to question what are the seeds, gifts and talents that are hidden in my heart that need to be awakened by the Creator who put them there.  
For some of us, these have been dormant for many years. 
Perhaps this is a season of the awakening of those “hidden treasures in dark places”.
Perhaps, the One, who planted these has inspired some to water and care for the gifts that have been dormant.
I believe some of us have been hiding for too long....
and as they say....
‘The times they are changing’.
And it is time for Godly women to be awakened to their hearts and what they are called to be.  Just as Joy awakens to her gifts... It is time, I believe, to be true to you, to honour you.  It’s time for women to rise up to their God given callings and bring their gifts to the table...because the world is waiting. 

​Helene

Do you remember when Terminator hit the box office, followed by a sequel?
What a movie!
What a story!
A mother protecting the future of the human race.
Or more importantly protecting the future of her son and his destiny.
Hmmm… Could there be something prophetic in this movie …especially the sequel?
My first reaction was “Wow, what’s going on here.”
But after a few viewings I remember feeling a kinship with the leading lady. There was something about this plot that was true.
But I did not understand it….. until recently.
Prophetic?
Definitely!
Because now we know about artificial intelligence.
Science fiction has become fact.
Countries are battling to be first in creating super human machines (robots or hybrids of humans with implants). Super strong soldiers to be used on the battlefield of war.
So now …here we are,  you and I, Mothers on the front lines.
Perhaps we are a little like the heroine of the movie, fighting for the survival of the human race as we know it.
Fighting for the destinies of our sons and daughters.
Interceding for that pure, unadulterated God given seed.

This year let’s have a scripture for our motto.
Let’s make it our continued declaration:

“The seed of the righteous is mighty in the land”.

It is a truth worth fighting for.
 
​Helene

"Good things come to those who wait"
And
I would agree.
Waiting for the fulfilment of a promise.
Waiting for that job offer, that holiday, those shoes or that perfect dress(!)
Waiting.
The journey to the good can be rife with personal ankhs, much anxiety and trepidation.
Why do we want it NOW.
What is it about the human condition that makes us so desperate for answers now... 
the good NOW Lord.
Not the long suffering Lord not now
Not ever, Please and thank you.
What does the long suffering do anyways but just upset us, discourage us and well... just plain old test us.
Waiting and waiting and waiting...
Hmmm
It makes me think of the life story of the farmer, the seed and waiting.
It says in the Good Book that as the farmer waits for the seed to grow and produce fruit so should we.
Recently I was walking in my garden and observed that after fourteen years the Kwanzan cherry tree which supposedly was not to produce fruit....did!
And after fifteen years in the ground and a rainy season...the hydrangea flowered for the first time!
Just as the farmer waits so are we to wait for the fruit which in time comes.
The seed is planted and will yield a crop if not up to ten, then to one hundred fold!
This passage says it well...
"For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, And do not return there without watering the earth And making it bear and sprout, And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater. So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth. It will not return to Me empty, without accomplishing what I desire, and without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it. "
Isaiah 55:10,11
And,
“There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven”
‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭3:1‬ ‭

And to finish,
"For the vision is yet for the appointed time. It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay.”
‭‭Habakkuk‬ ‭2:3‬ ‭
And so we wait....patiently, for the promise.

​Helene