Dear John and Doves,
 
In response to Shelva's encouragement for us to share what the Lord has been saying to us, I am going to share this brief encounter in the middle of the night a week or so ago.
 
It was unique in my experiences with the Lord and unmistakably from the Holy Spirit in my humble opinion.  I was aware in the middle of the night that I was overcome with a sense of grief for the state of Christians not watching and the non Christians.  It was a deep sense of mourning for their choices and the consequences of those choices.  Then there was a sense of sorrow for how hard the past few years have been for us as watchers in our personal circumstances of "impossibilities".  The next awareness was with the words, "I KNOW how hard the past few years have been for you, but it is over."  With those words came a gentle flooding peace and closure that "it IS over".  The next morning the business of "occupying" met me as usual in the demands of the day and the flooding peace preceded by the deep sorrow were gone.
 
The emotions were exactly those that I had felt in a dream vision that the Lord had given me in the early nineties.  He and I were walking side by side in total oneness of thought and feeling along the beach.  We looked back over our shoulders to the people we were leaving, there was a deep sorrow for the consequences of their choices that were about to come.  But even as we looked back in sorrow, we were drawn to what was ahead in the deep joy of eternal oneness.  The feelings were clearly those of a bride facing her future with the bridegroom.
 
May it be so this spring, Jesus!!!
 
Judy