Moon Gazing

My moon photos don't turn out nearly as good as hers.

I have been moon gazing, enjoying the full moon over the pasture. We have had goats separated into four different pens.  Three sets of does and bucks together and one small doe alone surrounded by ducks and chickens.  The night is going to be cold and there is a frost warning.  Concern for the smallest doe pushes me from the warm house to move goats together for heat.  In the dark the moon gives light to see the way. 

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It is early on a Saturday morning and I am driving Precious Husband to work.  His truck is in the shop, again.  The sun is just beginning to peak over the horizon and the moon remains in the sky.  The brighter the sun becomes the more faint the moon, giving way to the greater light.  

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Sunday morning comes, voices and hands are lifted in worship when images and words play through my soul.  Images of fire, a cross, a tree play on the screen in the front of my mind while in the background an image of the moon and the bronze laver wait their turn.

Wrapped in the lesson “Consume” and the image of fire for 2011 has been the phrase “See God”.   The Father ties the naming of the years together.  I pick up paint brush and slowly try to put the worship image on canvas.  Now is when I wish I were an artist.  But the strokes flow and the image comes to the front. 

Find 2009, God delights in being found and He is one who is hidden in plain sight  …  I have been stained by His Grace and Glory 2010 and His blood has made me whiter than snow   …   The drive to see God as I search daily for eternity and the word Consume 2011 has left its fiery zeal in my heart. 

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Earlier this year I took words from Ann’s book and wrote them in a way to remember the lesson …

moon face glows
all beauty a reflection
fierce beauty
   flaming fire
burns through masks
leaves soul disrobed
moon has my gaze
    all eye
all blinded by glory

When I get home I turn the pages eager to reread the chapter where she chases the moon.  I smile when I read the title, “What Do You Want?  The Place of Seeing God”.   God’s consuming work has done its work as I am learning to walk in the place to See God.

The image of the moon and the bronze laver now take their turn at the front of my mind.  The Father names the new year 2012– “Reflect”.   The moon, the bronze laver, they are both vessels that reflect another’s radiance.  Two verses rise to the front as I meditate on the moon, the laver, and the Word…

“And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.”  2 Corinthians 3:18

“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us.”  2 Corinthians 4:7

                      …and I wait to See God in a new year, in a new way.