Eve’s Daughter

You can actually find this post in the midst of another post, ‘Stepping Into A New Life - The Battle Rages Still!’ but I thought it was “worthy” enough and “important” enough to have it’s very own entry (especially as I keep referring back to it and can’t find it!

A year ago I found the following in my emails as I was cleaning stuff up (it was sent ages and ages ago) by a friend who is not a Christian, who thought I might like it. I did. And when I found it again, I thought it applied more to our church and what we were going through as a church, than for me as an individual. But as things kept happening and crappola kept surfacing in my life and in my family I began to realise that this story and this scripture ‘He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.’ (Malachi 3:3) was for me. All this happened in the first half of last year (2006), by the second half of last year I’d forgotten all about it, but it came to mind again recently, in the last week or so! I love this story, have a read and enjoy. I hope it speaks to you in the way it spoke and still speaks to me.

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Let me tell you about “fluffs”.

In our family we don’t use the word “fart”, we have decided that “fluff” is a better alternative; I dunno, but I find the word ‘fart’ coming out of a young child’s mouth to be a bit too course and uncouth, call me old fashioned if you like, but it’s just the way I feel, besides, using the word “fluff” means that Tim’s family don’t suffer from conniptions every time my boys talk about the sounds coming out from their bottoms! Anyway, I was told a story just the other day about how our use of the word “fluff” instead of “fart” has affected another family we know.

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This is just a real quickie - Tim and I (mostly Tim) have set up a fantastic new blog up called The Great Adventure - well, we think it is pretty fantastic anyway! This is where we’ll be putting up posts, photos and videos of our great adventure as we travel around Australia (and hopefully, the world!).

Obviously we haven’t left yet, but what you get when you visit The Great Adventure at the moment is posts on our preparation and planning, our struggles, and our spiritual journey as well as the places we want to visit, things we want to do and all that kind of stuff. Tim’s put in an interactive map and we’ve got a spot where you can put in your suggestions for places we could visit and things to do - we’d love people to get involved.

I’ve already put in one post about The Children’s Garden in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne (you can read the poem I wrote too called ‘The Children’s Garden’ ) and hopefully I’ll do a few more on places to see and things to do in and around Melbourne before we actually go! I’ve got a few drafts in the pipeline.

Anyway, check us out at www.thegreatadventure.info

Continuing on from ‘Stepping Into A New Life’  and ‘Stepping Into A New Life - The Battle’  

At the end of October/start of November Tim went on a detox - a Breuss detox, which is quite involved, well researched and documented, not the quick fix detox you can buy over the counter at the chemist. The Breuss detox is the sort of detox they’ve been using in Sweden to help cure cancer victims and stuff, and needless to say, before entering into this detox Tim did a lot of research.

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We prayed ‘An Outrageous Prayer’ about a month ago. It was what we really wanted, for numerous reasons, but realisticially, it was so far from reality that it was almost a joke. And I have to admit, as we prayed for it, even though it was a heart’s desire, I didn’t think it would be answered. It was too, well, too outrageous!

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I finished my last ‘Stepping Into A New Life’ post with this -  

“…our lives went even more pearshaped as what we know now to be spiritual warfare kicked itself into gear and put us in its sights…”

a bit frustrating I know, but I only had limited time so I did what I could. Anyway, we pick the story up 2 weeks after my vision and stepping into our new life -

On the Friday before we’d had our senior leader come over and pray for us, Xavier and Kael both had colds (Kael had already had his since the start of the week and I’d cancelled Xavier’s immunisation appointment due to his cold) and there were a few other things going on, so we had a great time with our leader as we discussed things and prayed and dealt with at least one issue. All three kids are sick, coughs, colds and runny noses and Brydon’s ears are hurting. Brydon’s not very good with pain anyway, so I’m really not sure if he’s in lots of pain or just a bit of pain as his reaction is the same whether it’s a little or a lot. I manage to get a Dr’s appointment sometime that day. Brydon has an ear infection in both ears and Kael has a chest infection. At this stage Xavier just has a cold. And things just went down hill from there.

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Okay, I thought I’d go back to the beginning. Way back…okay, not that far back, only in reality about fourteen months, although aspects of this started farther back than that, but fourteen months is about where everything started heating right up. And it all started with a vision…

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“There’s got to be more to life than this!!!”

I am so tired of this life that I live. And I’ve been tired and frustrated with my life for a long time now. Well, I consider a few years to be a long time, maybe that’s not long for some. Oh, and don’t worry, when I say “I am tired of this life that I live” I’m NOT feeling or being suicidal, rather, what I am saying is, I am tired of not living the life I’ve been created to live and I’m tired of settling for less.

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I wrote the first draft of this poem on 29th September, 2007 and wrote the final copy on 8th October, 2007. Through the book ‘Captivating’ by Stasi & John Eldredge I have been discovering how much beauty means to God and I wanted to write a poem that captured beauty and also captured the beauty of woman and how special a woman is to God. “My Daughter” started out life entitled ‘Woman’.

However, God had other plans; He opened up a wound; a wound I discovered after a day at my parents’ house with the boys and without Tim. I used the  ‘Captivating Guided Journal’ to help me work through this wound. The path of restoration led to a place where you ask Jesus to come and heal you. You listen for his voice and hear what he is saying to you. And then you ask God to father you. Part of the prayer says ‘…Reveal your love for me. Tell me what I mean to you…’

The poem “My Daughter” was his answer to me. Every time I read this poem, and I read it every few days, I am in awe, I am amazed; not by my talent, but by the love God has poured out for me. And I believe this poem is not just God’s words for me, but for every woman alive.

Click on “My Daughter” to open the poem in a new window.

The poem is in Adobe Acrobat format. If you can’t open the poem, then you can download a free reader.

This post came about as a result of writing about the poem “God Believes In Me”.

I read this poem at church one Sunday morning in August 2005, and it was good. I knew it was good before I read it. Reading it to the congregation I ‘knew’ it was good. And reading it again two years later, it is still good.

A teenager (a girl) came up to me afterwards telling me that the poem had made her cry (which was pretty unusual) and she really loved it, and could I give her a copy? Several other people came and told me they’d been touched by it and it was a good poem.

As I said, I ‘knew’ it was a good poem, but it is always nice having others say it too. And having other people tell me something I’ve done is good, is really difficult.

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