I AM Your Vision

Be Thou my vision, and light of my heart
Naught be all else to me, save that Thou art
Thou my best thought by day or by night
Waking or sleeping, Thy presence my light
                            --Be Thou My Vision
                            Traditional Irish
                            Mary E. Byrne, Elanor H. Hull

The Scout:              
Child --I will awaken you.
I will come up behind you and put my arms around you....

She said,
Where shall I live?
I know You say, Don’t worry.
I know your hand supports us, but it is hard to sense, and I puzzle.
We dream and we sleepwalk the land.
I want to know your peace alone as home, Jesus.

The Scout replied.
You enjoyed the light today.  Dreaming, yes.  Playing.  Play!
You played on mountains today.
The sun was dancing, and life began returning.
Return to me.  Come home to me.
You have been sealed up, and it is time to come home.

She said, Wipe me clean then.  See my heart? It’s all sooty.  I’m distracted.

The Scout ran his hand over her soul.  There, he said.
You are as white as snow.  I am the heart of your heart.  Don’t worry.

I love you.


She was still torn.
How is it that I can be so high, and then so low?
So full of energy and desire and then so wasted and flat.
I feel so old.
I am afraid of falling.

The Scout spoke up
It seems like forever to you, doesn’t it?
But compare it to the eternal, and look at it through my eyes.
See?
You are afraid to hear my voice,
And reluctant to do my bidding.
Beloved, Satan’s triumph is in this world,
And creation has been subjected to disappointment.
Understand, he will try to crush you with circumstance.
Who are you going to believe?
I am Hope.
He is disappointment.
Little One, see me.
I want you to know I love you.
I have given you the gift of Vision to see Paradise.
Understand?
Earth as it was meant to be.
Life as it will soon be.
That is why your pain is so great.
You must try to live this Vision.  Hold on to it.
It is a futile gesture to all except those who will see with eyes of the heart.
Have faith in me, Little One.
You linger over disaster too much.
Have faith in me.  I will guide you all the way from earth to heaven.
Don’t try to justify the use of your time, or you will lay aside the Vision.
You must live in My time.  That is a long time.
Didn’t I say I would prepare a place for you?

She said,  I’m sorry.  I get so paralyzed and so afraid.
It means so many things.  I want to be sure it is you.  Just YOU.

The Scout answered
It is Me.  Don’t be afraid.

She asked,
Please, why do we suffer so hard?
Where are we just hurting ourselves?

The Scout explained
My love is forever.
I created you to be complex and sensitive,
And all these things work for good for those who believe.
You know this in your spirit, but you still carry fear in your body.
Why else do you think I want you to crucify your flesh? It must die anyway.
I will burn out that fear with the heat of my love and you will live yet.
Sit close to me.
You are afraid of the feeling of being tampered with--or being seduced.
My love is not like that.
My love is like sun on soaked seed.
Remember?

Satan’s power is seductive,
You feel stolen from.
My love up builds.
My love will crucify only your separation from me.
It will give you joy.
Satan will make you feel dirty and ashamed, like hiding; brazen, arrogant.
You have to expose yourself to Satan; or he tricks you.
You present yourself to me.
I redeem you.  See the difference?
I am holy.  You are the work of My hands.