by Mike Rakes | May 16, 2020 | Spirituality
Van Gogh’s depiction of exhausted peasant couple. Poem inspired by Jason Upton music. There was a season not that long ago, When joy rained down and laughter flowed; A fullness and feasts of fellowship and fun, Rare does one know soon that harvest...
by Mike Rakes | May 16, 2020 | Spirituality
Now the lone tree is bare standing on the frozen earth, There is no song bird there and nothing to give birth, No rabbit seen only bare tree and fields, silent while waiting on eternity to rise. Whitney your life is still teaching us – even during this dark...
by Mike Rakes | Dec 21, 2018 | Spirituality, Theology
When it comes to a Visitation we can see that Jesus whole life was a Visitation for us. Christ did not arrive unannounced (because he was The Promise) but he came uninvited, and from the start, no one could find room for him at all. There was no room for Christ in the...
by Mike Rakes | Jun 21, 2018 | Personal Growth, Spirituality, Theology
Luke 22:27 …but I am among you as one who serves… In the year, 1648, Rembrandt was in the middle of creating some of his most famous paintings. Also in that year there was a woman named, (Jeanne-Marie) Madam Guyon who was considered a Catholic that was open to the...
by Mike Rakes | Jun 7, 2018 | Spirituality
You can imagine the shakeup that was occurring in the first century when Jesus led his followers into a new and living way to interact and live for God rather than the strict religious attempts of the law from the past. It changed the way people thought about God and...
