Sitting at my computer, I heard the first few words of this poem start in my heart. I can’t say this is how I feel because there is nothing I would change about the Lord’s way with me. He simply knows my heart and language. He knows how to sweep me off my feet with a poetic message, delight me with a deer in my garden, and paint me feathers with the clouds. He knows I jump out of my chair when He highlights a fresh word in His scriptures and helps me research it out. This is my deepest love of Him. So I can assume someone needs to hear this poetic message today.

My prayer for you is that you love His way with you. Because His way with you is how He is going to reach others through you. It’s so very important to get this. Every unique facet of your heart was weaved together by hand…by the Lord. Ponder this for a moment…. it’s critical that you be YOU!

We can see others propel forward as we are held behind in seasons, but all in all it’s knowing He has a unique time for us each to show forth, specific hearts who need our “way”, and where He has marked a land with our name. Don’t abandon His plan for you, even if it seems impossible or others are not in agreement. If you mimic others and their ways, the anointing will not be there. If you run from the call, it could get a little hairy like with Jonah.  Because He has anointed you in a specific way for a unique work in this generation. God has assignments and room for all His children. All the members of the body are essential for a healthy body.

I realize the church today has little space for the gifts of His children, but He will still make a way for you to be YOU. Stay the course just as He made you. He will work through you in a beautiful way that only He and you can accomplish together. Your primary job while waiting on Him to unfold His plans for you, is to pray. Seek Him. Study His ways in the scriptures. Learn of His vast love and tenderness. Know He is a good shepherd. He is kind. He is patient. He is tender. He operates always out of a source of love. It is His nature.

Don’t be a missing piece to His grand puzzle:) You can trust Him…

 

The Puzzle Piece

Sometimes I’d like to be someone else

But the Lord does whisper, “No.”

At times He hears me ponder in pain

“But Lord it’s such a lonely road.”

 

“It’s not rejection by many of men

It’s the prophetic gift within

But if you were someone else, my dear

Then who would be You then?

 

You see inside each child of mine

Is a uniquely crafted heart

Made as a specific puzzle piece

Designed for the perfect slot.

 

For given are gifts and treasures, you see

To reach a unique set of ears

So if you decide to be someone else

Those same hearts may never hear.

 

Your piece does fit now nowhere else

Even with the enemy’s best try

For missing is not just you, dear one

But the gifts you carry inside.

 

Your gifting is given as a mixture of sorts

Distinctly breathed and stirred

To take all the lessons, the laughters, and pains

To those who have not yet heard.

 

So if you defer to another, My child

Somewhere a hole is unfilled

Vacant and waiting My heart to men

An appointment only you can fill.