The Watch Tower

By: Susan Deborah Schiller

When the world is winning by manifesting in worries, I wait for God in a watch tower. Sometimes it's a real watch tower like the one above and sometimes it's just my backyard.

I begin by rehearsing what I know about God's nature. Almost always I end up at the foot of a cross, dripping with fresh blood – the blood of an innocent and beloved friend – who assures me it's simply a new beginning.

This world is not our home; it's boot camp. We're learning to love like Him.

My husband wrote me a note today, about discovering the yucca have bloomed. And yesterday four little owls blinked steadily at him from a tree. He knows beauty and truth bring Light's rays of peace and joy into this very dark world as he shares his discoveries with me.

This Planet that sustains my life is full of beauty and truth, but the world that controls it – with all its failing systems – is held hostage to the devil, who has no real power. Perhaps we cannot really appreciate beauty and truth until we face the darkness, like a night show of brilliant constellations.

My granddaughter, when the world is breaking her heart, runs barefoot in the grass and smells the flowers. She grabs a blanket and lays down on the balcony, under the stars. She knows God has not left us without healing and hope. Maybe we all need to become more like this little child and rediscover our power to create our world, to bring heaven to earth.

This planet is so unlike the world that attempts to control it. The world, to me, is a dark place. It's not my Home. Every thought I invest into God's nature brings me closer to Home, until I realize my Home is in Him, and His is in me.

And that's exactly where I want to be.

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With all my love,

Sue

Susan Schiller knows how it feels to lose everything: marriage and family, church and reputation, finances and businesses, and more. Susan's upcoming, interactive memoir, "On the Way Home," tells the story of how she came to be known as "the most abused woman" her counselors had yet met and how she learned to navigate to freedom and fullness.

Today Susan helps people write their life stories, unearthing the treasures of their past and sowing them into their future, creating new family legacies.

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Annie June 12, 2015 at 8:01 am

I like your distinction between the beauty of this planet and the failures of the world. That's something I struggle with – how can my own small actions help bring about God's restoration and redemption to this earth? Thank you for your thougths – I'll be mulling them over today. (Visitng from FMF)

Susan Schiller June 12, 2015 at 8:23 am: Our own actions do seem so small, don’t they… but maybe it’s the small actions that will have the greatest effect. That’s what I’m pondering today! Thanks, Annie!

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