I recently came away from a retreat Sara taught with some thoughts about healing and how it relates to вЂ?The Kingdom of God is Like a Farmer’ that I would like to share.

My profession is agriculture (Agriculture as defined by Merriam-Webster: the science, art, or practice of cultivating the soil, producing crops, and raising livestock and in varying degrees the preparation and marketing of the resulting products: farming)or more specifically, horticulture (Horticulture: the science and art of growing fruits, vegetables, flowers, or ornamental plants).

I have been thinking about how many вЂ?farming’ words are found in the scriptures and realized I can’t pick up my Bible without reading such agricultural words as wheat, herbs, trees, plow, vineyard, harvest, seed, fruit, fish…and on and on. These words must be important to God as He communicates with us by usinContinue reading “Horticultural Therapy”

My eyes have been opened to many things this past week in Retreat (The Dance of Healing, NC) and one of the most astounding things that came as a thunderbolt of revelation from the teachings, is that the spirits that try to oppress God’s people and the sins that so easily beset us and specifically “me” (although we’ve tried time after time to overcome them), are really “addictions”. We become addicted to a way of reacting to a situation or how we are affected by a certain circumstance and we are deceived into thinking that that is the “way we are”! Self-deception is very dangerous. I received the understanding that oppressive spirits of rejection, fear & pride are really ADDICTIONS of the soul and ONLY through study of God’s Word, prayer and Holy Spirit, we CAN KICK THE HABIT, if we truly desire that!

My ears have been opened to manyContinue reading “Mine Eyes Have Seen—-“

During a recent retreat, “Dance of Healing” I was reminded how important it is to keep in step with the Holy Spirit.

Connecting with my occupation as a teacher, I realize that there are joyous consequences to keeping in step with assignments and dire consequences to not keeping in step. For instance, sometimes I have students who come to me explaining the reasons why they didn’t turn in an assignment on time. They had been given every detail of the assignment and the due date. Yet when the due date came, they had nothing to turn in. As a result they received a failing mark. Those who turned in their assignment with attention to every detail and on time received a grade of excellent.

As far as being a Christian, I find we are back in school facing similar situations. The teacher, The Holy Spirit, speaks to us giving us the details and the due date. Sometimes we Continue reading “In step”

Dormancy from “The Dance of Healing.” by Sara

A note from my Journal “Farming ‘Spiritual’ Retreat ’06:

In reviewing my notes I realized I had been suffering from emotional trauma. I feel I am healed in these areas after our retreat and the love I received.

In the process of cultivating inner beauty I understand we are told, your outside must line up with your inside,,,but I found if your inside has more of you than Christ, that’s what shows up and its’ awful not awesome’. You may think its not a good thing, but I’ve found it is especially if your working to change things, you need to know and see what kind of weed needs to be removed or what kind of seed needs to be planted…and there is shock ,there is trauma when you get a real look at you in you instead of Christ in You…I know this for myself….I looked up shock it means=a violent shock or jar….and trauma means= an injuContinue reading “Dormancy-“The Dance of Healing””