Teach and prophecy, but know the difference when you are doing each. God is a God of order. Some can both teach and prophecy, but know when you are doing each, so you plant His Seeds well. And distinguish them for others, so there is clarity of reception.

Know when you switch into prophetic mode. It’s a different energy in His Spirit. It has a unique potency and urgency, and force—it cuts through things. When teaching, there is expanded time, and walking things out, to show how, to bring order to the minds of His People. They are each unique. Know which is which, even when discerning the opinions of others. Notice what is real teaching, and what is real prophetic. Distinguish the modes of communication as a way of getting to know God and His Ways.

Of course, the two modes of Divine discourse overlap, yet they are distinct in Him. Learn the difference, so you can see how and why He is using that method or mode of communication into the situation. MLK for instance, was sometimes teaching, and other times, clearly prophesying! You can sense the difference in his speeches! Jesus also often did both, in one conversation, yet you can clearly sense when He switches from one to the other. This is a helpful and needed part of discernment in our times!

His Sheep know His Voice, and that not all aspects of His Voice are the same. His sheep also know how to discern His Voice from the world’s voices. That much is basic to spiritual survival! God often communicates in times of great change, as He is now; so let us discern His Voice, and His modes of communication today. This will more succinctly lead us to live in His Ways!

In Belgium,
As they get old they talk very close to one another. They lean in for emphasis and that is most often enough to make the point. Less hype, more being fully with. It’s a conversational nation. In some nations the space between things creates identity, here proximity is king. How physically close I am to you as we talk is over half the content. Americans tend to like to shout from across the house. Here, you come into the room with the person with whom you want to turn with or con (with) vers (Latin for turn as in reversal). Nice simple cultural observations in travel.

Simple observations today from a local pub.
The old man stacks and re-stacks the newspapers, after the drunk moves one, disheveling them for others. The elder, with shaky hands, carefully places the coasters and papers in their proper propped up order, revealing to us all of today’s headlines; it’s his domain which is left for him-to keep, at least, that much order, so we can see clearly. To straighten out the papers of his local pub. And everyone let’s him. As we should. Life’s tasks simplify at the end.

Ladies enjoying high tea in the lobby of Hilton. That was a fine trip actually. Lord thanks. I wish I’d have recorded it better. A couple of interviews with Sasha would’ve been cool. I’ve a gift there.
Take it easy today.
You got it.

Socks and shirt. Nothing else. Move to ca.

As it says on the back of one of my favorite James Joyce’s books (short story collage collection called, Dubliners) : “ordinary lives and the moments which make them extra-ordinary.” All of us both.
You alright then? I’ll have a look at the bank fer playing. You alright today? Talking to his dog. Just wait, things will get better. Come here. Inf need to take care of ya.
I
Like
To linger
A little
Past time.

I liked her fingers
In rain
That much I remember
And the way her lips formed
When she said
Jesus.

In the James river that summer
I was showing her everything
I knew by then.
We spun in water circles
In that river in thick summer
All the seeds went into the muddy water
Floating somewhere unseen
Beneath us. Probably upstream.

Julio’s house
The house was centered around a tree back then
Before he died
He promised to help
Bring the forest home. The garden into the center
Of the city. Whether he started to
Or not,
It was the warmest home
I’ve known.

Came across this in my journal today, written to some fatherly friends…

To Dave and Merton:

(and other, like fathers)
To be a father, you said
Is to go deeper into the forest first-

to create and become a clearing
for others to walk into, more easily. To love
like that, in that way is

the task of fatherhood, you say.

To become a way, to be

a tall clearing
for others to see the trees by from within
the woods.

Love went further than us all, into
That forest, I thought. As did you
friend and Father. Thanks, it’s all
Clear in here. I can clearly see each leaf now forming uniquely.