Have you ever read a good book and dreaded when your eyes skimmed across the last few pages? You quietly say goodbye to the characters you've come to love as you tuck the book in your bag or carefully place it on your family's bookshelf. There's something absolutely amazing and powerful about the written word. It can captivate your imagination, inspire, console, instruct, strengthen and even challenge you. It can leave you exhilarated or completely puzzled.

How we respond to what we read is also a journey. We are compelled to go through the steps of processing the information we receive. Sometimes this part of the journey is done subconsciously.

The most extraordinary and exceptional words we will ever encounter are the ones that come from Scripture. They demand a response. Sometimes we politely put them aside and continue to travel on the same path. Other times we gently allow the doors to our hearts to swing open and saturate the truth that only God's Word can provide.

We don't have the privilege of regulating God's Word to a good novel we've read...for His Words are living and active!

Hebrews 4:12
For the word of God is living and active and sharperthan any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow,and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

What we often fail to understand is when we encounter the written word of God, we encounter God Himself!

This blog is the journey of my heart, documented by my pen, when I have encountered Him in the middle of the night, in the midst of a sun filled day, on a blustery afternoon...I hear and see Him. Join me in the search for Him.

Psalm 27:4
One [thing] have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.