Do You love me? How much?

The questions I asked God continued to yield responses that were highly tender and personal.



Day 6 - Do You love me? How much?



God said to me:

I love you Gaylene. 


Do you feel that overflow?
The bubbling up? 
It's me.
Flowing in you.
Flowing through you.
Flowing around you.
Flowing on top of you.
Flowing underneath you.
Flowing beside you.
Flowing.

And it's all love FOR you.

It's like a waterfall that never stops. Never ever.
Imagine Niagara Falls with no water.
Impossible.
Impossible for me to cease loving you the way I do.


Open up Gaylene for the overflow.
You are my reservoir, 
my catch basin, 
my pool at the bottom of the waterfall. 
Catching me.
Catching my love.

Fill Me Up by United Pursuit f/ Will Reagan

(Love of God overflow :: Permeate all my soul)

Next: Do You like me? Why do You like me?

How do You see me Father God?

As I read through Rivers of Eden, I continued to ask God questions and journalled what His replies were. 

Day 5 - How do You see me Father God?
Do I have the humility to agree with God? 
What if what He tells me is true? 


God told me:
Let me tell you about your garden. Yes it's fragrant and watered. But have you considered the varieties of flowers and plants that grow there? And the wildlife that find a home there? Colors that spring out of verdant greenery. 

And yes Gaylene, the smells. 
You are the fragrance. 
You smell so beautiful. 
No one else smells like you.
Your aroma is intoxicating. 
No one else has it.

My Sweet Rose - John William Waterhouse c.1908

When you walk in a room, people sense something is different because your aroma is so strong that it cancels out all the other stuff. It actually changes the chemistry. 




NOW do you understand why you are filled with the beauty of fragrance? 




Because you ARE a fragrance.

Alabaster Box by Julie Meyer

Next: Do You love me? How much?

Who am I to You?

The questions I asked God started to get a little more personal. 

Day 4 - Who am I to You?

As soon as I asked the question, I got a picture in my mind's eye of feet walking on a paper map. Then the map was revolved and the feet headed into an entirely different direction.

Then God spoke to me: 

You are an adventurer, a mapmaker.

You chart the way.

Others are on roads they think are leading them places.That's who you are Gaylene. You help people who have been given confusing directions make sense of them. 

That's your unique teaching gift. You use your experiences to chart the way. Continue to be totally transparent about your story, your discoveries, your breakthroughs, your walk...it charts the way for others.

You know they've been reading the map wrong.

I just gave you a picture of how when you look at the map one way and just alter the way you hold it, it can change everything.

It is important to me. You are a discoverer no less important than Christopher Columbus.

Next: How do you see me Father God?

Show me what You are like

Continuing to ask Father God questions and journalling His subsequent replies. 

Day 3 - Show me what You are like
(Bring to mind one object of symbol that represents You 
Why are You like that object or symbol?
How does it relate to me? 
If You are like that, what does that do for my heart and my faith journey?)

He replied: 
Open your Bible.

I am an open book, open wide for you.

Every word, every punctuation mark, every symbol, every sentence, every verse, every chapter, every book represents a facet of Me.

I am open to you. Open to your interpretation based on your experiences.

I am the Word.
In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. (John 1:1-2)

This is why I want you to consume My Word, because I am the Word.