Life on Pursuit

  The Hidden Place ~  Take me to the place where the little cabin sits within a grassy meadow with mountains all around facing the sea. The crystal white sand beginning where the meadow ends stretches forth into the cool water that beckons me from afar. I feel at peace here; unplugged and with no one around but just me and God. I feel free here from my heavy burdens. I needed this. This is our meeting place, hidden from the rest of the world. This is a place that I envisioned when I was meditating one night. Sometimes we just need that time and space where we can just separate ourselves from the rest of the world to hear the voice of God more clearly.   Like I mentioned in my previous blog, Sometimes I fall , we go through different seasons in our lives, and sometimes they are low seasons. Seasons where we find ourselves in the valley feeling; dry, weary, or altogether just distant from God. In this series of blogs that I will be sharing, I will be taking you guys t...

Picture made by Shalem-Salmina  I fall short I fall short of your glory This fat is choking me This flesh is killing me Weighing me down I cannot carry My spirit shaking inside Trying to break free My eyes cannot see My ears cannot hear I cannot feel Whenever you are near Blind, I lean on my Faith Deaf, I look to your signs To guide me, to show me That your always there Even though I fall short, Short of your glory ©      ~ Star Latty      We all fall short of God's glory but that is why we have grace and his truth to guide us. We are humans and sometimes we make mistakes (whether intentionally or unintentionally) and a lot of the times we do end up falling short and disappointing God but the good thing to know is that he does not give up on us. He said he would never forsake us, so, he is near even when we are sitting in our tears asking him, where are you? In those times of questioning, I usually find myself  trying to move past the doubts ...

       I once heard someone say that we are like trees and when we get born-again (the term used to describe someone who is baptized) we are watered with this new water but we still have to work on removing all the bad fruits so that it will not affect the good. After I got baptized, I had the foundation of my faith but I was finding myself backsliding because I still did not have a true relationship with God, which limited God from truly working on me and helping me let go of  my old self. I only knew God religiously, which is what I would call the surface level; I would go to church, pray and sometimes read the bible but it all felt routine and disconnected. I needed something more from God and He needed something more from me, which I later on realized, and what God wanted was my heart. The first commandment is to "love thy God with your whole heart and from your whole soul and your whole mind and your whole strength" (Matthew 12:30); God wanted me to follow ...

" You were not kidding when you said this path is narrow; choosing to follow you is not easy but what keeps me going is knowing it will all be so worth it in the end" (me). When I was a little girl I remember being at church all the time because my mom was on the church choir. She would go to choir practice multiple times throughout the week or weekend and would always take me with her. We would go to church twice in one day on Sundays for morning and evening services; we practically lived there, church was our life and it was all I knew.       Although I grew up in the church and had a church family, I felt like a black sheep. I knew about God and I would see people being filled with the holy spirit and baptized but I always felt like I was a spectator looking in from the outside. I went to church because I had to and when I did I never really paid much attention to the preaching but at the end of every service the bishop would say something like, "if your not saved...

                  In this season The tree stands alone  Its branches spread out Some cracked and some old While some of the leaves Wither and die Their time running out Their time to say goodbye The tree stands alone Not wanting to let go Of the seasonal foliage  That's lived out its time The branches must drop The leaves have to leave And all the tree's clinging  Can't prevent what will be The tree stands  With new leaves and new branches  Lively and well They come and they go The tree--- Roots will never go away  As time goes on They will always be constant They will always stay the same ©      ~ Star Latty

Wrap me in your arms Where I will abide  Closer to your love  Pure and light  Ascending like a dove  Like a starving child I cling to you Overwhelm me with the heavens above  I want more of you, Take all of  me...     You said two is better than one  So let us be two in one One body One mind One soul One spirit One heartbeat Binding with your covenant Strung together by a three-headed cord Standing strong, you hold us up No one can break up what you put together No one can separate us from your love ©      ~ Star Latty Ecclesiastes 4:9-12 King James Version 9 Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labour. 10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow but woe to him that is alone when he falleth for he hath not another to help him up.  11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat but how can one be warm alone? 12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him and a three...

Another year has gone by and boy has it been a big year of change, bad and good... Your probably wondering how could there be any good that has come out of the past year but trust me when I say that light shines through darkness and you can always find the good even in the bad. Yes,  2020 was a year of despair and fear but it was also a year of reflection and deliverance (at least for me). It  was definitely a year of change. A change that was uncomfortable and unsettling. A change that has led a lot of us to stop and reflect on our lives. A change that has been "a wake up call," as it showed us that we are not in control. Most importantly, it has been a change that involuntarily and voluntarily changed us. 2020 was by far the hardest year for me, for all of us, mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually and that's a lot "ly's"  for anyone to handle but by God's mercy and grace I've made and keep making it through day by day. Nonetheless and w...