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In today’s Eagle People reading, Yahweh tells us about a man who had two sons. One stayed home and was obedient and faithful to his father while the youngest took his share of his father’s estate and went off and squandered it. But, one day, he came to his senses. Have you experienced a day like that in your life? Where you came to your senses? Where you realized that you were wallowing with the pigs?

I know this life. I once walked the way of deep sorrow. Then I came to my senses and began calling out to Yahweh. Day after day, I called out to Yahweh and never gave up. I walked the land and holy ground below the Sacred Mountain and called his name. I cried. I pleaded. And finally, he heard my cry and I began to crawl down the way of faithfulness, a broken, battered Vietnam vet, but moving forward in the love of Yahweh.

Walk on, dear child, crawl on! Slowly though it may be. Yahweh does not stay up on the Sacred Mountain. He is very near. He hears your cry for mercy.

Eagle People…Today’s reading is Luke 15:11-32. Pleya gi “Go with Blessings.”

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Sometimes the path seems long, too long, as we make our way toward the Sacred Mountain, and we may grow weary and give up if it weren’t for the fact that Yahweh is the One who leads us, and Yahweh is our Father who loves us more than anyone else ever can. That is an eternal truth that the oldest and youngest believer, alike, may grasp, and once we do, then we can rest, even while crossing through the churning waters, in the faith that He will lead us safely to the goal.

Arthur Christopher Bacon says it well, “I still believe that a day of understanding will come for each of us, however far away it may be. We will understand as we see the tragedies that today darken and dampen the presence of heaven for us take their proper place in God’s great plan—a plan so overwhelming, magnificent, and joyful, we will laugh with wonder and delight.”

Eagle People … Today’s reading is Matthew 6:25-34. Pleya gi “Go with Blessings.”

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If one lives long enough they will see the shifting shadows that darken Yahweh’s smile. Often we put those shadows there by not taking God at his word. We keep asking for life’s difficulties to be taken away when he has promised us enough grace to keep moving forward. Like the Israelites of ancient days, we get distracted and run in circles waiting for the barriers to be removed.

It is in these times that we must keep moving forward as if there are no obstacles at all. For it is when we step into the rushing waters that he cuts off the flow and makes a way for us to cross on dry ground. Yes. If one lives long enough they will see the shifting shadows that darken Yahweh’s smile, but they will also see the light of life that sprouts out of those dark places.

Eagle People … Today’s reading is 1 Peter 4:1-11. Pleya gi “Go with Blessings.”

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There is a time when we must confess our betrayal—telling the truth to the One who already knows it all. This is the act of our betrayal—the thoughts that are less than pleasing to Yahweh; the actions that speak of an attachment to evil; the unlove that invades our souls; the lack of faith with which we betray ourselves.

Though Yahweh knows our every thought before we think it, there is a healing that happens through our confession. And though we may expect rightfully earned condemnation, Yahweh gives us love instead. Get close to the earth, sit still, and wait, until you are aware of the washing of the Holy Spirit spreading throughout your body, quickening the deadest members and rebirthing hope. Let this awareness swell up inside of you until it bubbles over in waves of joy.

Eagle People … Today’s reading is Psalm 139:7-10. Pleya gi “Go with Blessings.”

(Photo by Sandy Cathcart of Aaron Gentry at Arrows of Faith meeting, Chiloquin, Oregon, 2014)

Dear child, have you considered how great is Yahweh? He is beyond our understanding, yet closer than a blood brother. He calls us by our secret name that only He knows. Yahweh has journeyed to the springs of the sea and walked in the recesses of the deep. He is the One who bound the beautiful Pleiades and loosed the cords of Orion. He brought forth the constellations in their seasons and led out the Bear with its cubs. Amazing love. Amazing Creator. Who am I, oh Yahweh, that you would pay mind of me? Yahweh. Yahweh. Yahweh.

Eagle People … Today’s reading is Colossians 2:20-23. Pleya gi “Go with Blessings.”

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