Glacier Bay and The Throne Room

It was September of this year...our trip to Alaska near ...I was nervous, not really excited about going ..... wringing my hands and stating to my precious husband (he deserves a medal for being married to me) ... but you know how WELL I fly and I don't like cold and I don't like heights and..and...and... he kept encouraging me that "it will be so much fun - just wait" ...we were going with our friends from Big Spring - I could go and be anywhere with Nita Faye ( even in a cardboard box) and have the most fun ever! .. so I was excited about being with her and her husband. I could survive!! :0 ..... Ray, please forgive me for not trusting you and GOD!
I don't do boats, because I don't like water...OMGoodness...I was going to be surrounded by WATER ON A BOAT ! Everyone we knew was excited about us going..ALL OF THEM SAID YOU WILL LOVE IT!!! WELL .... I survived and I was glad that I had the experience...God is soo good, even in my constant fretting and what sounded like complaining, HE showed up! He always does, why should I have not expected it this time. Lord, I know I'm difficult - but I love you so..... Abilene, (treetop plane) to Dallas (bigger plane - how do they stay in the air?) to VanCouver, Canada and then to the port to board the ship - (see Karen, there is land on both sides of us..you will be OK) sure, it's at night when you're on the open sea that you don't see that YOUR NOT SURROUNDED BY LAND! I don't know what my problem was...why was I so obsessed by land - like I could swim to shore if I wanted to HA! anyway..the cruise was an experience (you have to wash your hands at these little "purel" stands every 6 feet or so .... to prevent you from getting SOME DEADLY VIRUS THAT HAS HELD AN ENTIRE SHIP HOSTAGE AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHHHHHH HELP)....OK I'm gonna get to the experience I want to share ..... ( Henry Robinson you were right ... thanks for sharing God's word HE gave you for me ..... I Won't Ever Be The Same...It WAS a life changing trip) I think it was about on the 3rd day of the trip - we were going to Glacier Bay .... I have posted some of the pictures on the blog ..... they do not do them justice... Did you know glaciers store more water than lakes? ....rivers....ground water and the atmosphere combined?
anyway, It was amazing...so quiet...SILENT!!!!!! NO SOUND!!!! except for the loud sound of crackling and popping and the sounds of THUNDER AND LIGHTENING! IT WAS BEYOND WORDS!....and here I was dressed for a blizzard, covered from head to toe (I won't share the picture it's scarey..Ray said I looked like a jewel thief) peering over the side of the ship's rail and sobbing uncontrollably. I saw and felt the Throne Room of God! This place was so amazing, our earthly words cannot express what I saw and felt. The water was thick and slushy, moving slowly when a piece of the berg would break off and tumble into the water. They say that the stress & strain of melting causes the water to drip, the air bubbles to pop and cracks making a heavenly sound.
I don't mean to be so lengthy, but I feel God wants me to share this .... the bergs are different colors, I don't know if you can tell from the pictures...some are blue - they are dense ..some greenish-black, have broken off or "calved" off glacier bottoms .. some dark-striped from carrying rubble (junk) from the joining of tributary glaciers or other sources. Bergs may be weighed down, submerged even by rocks and rubble. Sounds like times in my life .... how high a berg floats depends on it's size. it's density and the water's density. Sound familiar to you?
A modest looking berg may SUDDENLY LOOM ENORMOUS and danger smaller things around it when it just "ROLLS OVER! (I want to be like that in the Lord!) Dangerous!...right girls? Keep in mind what you see is "just the tip of the iceberg" ...how many times in my life have I heard this ..... now I get it Lord! OK, back to the Throne room - the air in the bay was thick and heavy ...moisture fell very lightly like velvet rubbing against you...it was unbelievable! .... when you looked out from the deck it looked like God's Annointing ...wonderful and heavy. You know, I think practicing the presence of God requires that WE draw near to HIM - because when we do, HE draws near to us ...... (James 4:8) "Draw near to God and HE will draw near to you."
I feel a little frieghtened to think about entering the Throne Room and stand before God .... but, I suppose drawing near in this way is the safest thing we can do. God, you are so good! I love that feeling of HIS presence, .... the thickness of HIS Annointing ...... the inability to stand without holding on to something and the feeling of HIS MAJESTY! This is what I felt at Glacier Bay. (2 Cor. 3:18) "...beholding the Glory of The Lord...." You know, being in the throne room probably isn't something WE can make happen with our mind - but, only the Holy Spirit can do that. I have a very vivid imagination (God giving, I pray) so I am learning to not put my faith in MY imagination...but my faith in God .....simply and BOLDLY
AND TRUSTING THAT i have ACCESS TO GOD IN all HIS GLORY IN Where ever We May Go ... even Alaska...on a boat....in the water...where it is cold...and all there is to eat is fish ..... (flash backs from Israel and the pointed "fish butts"). Thank you sweet Lord! Thank you Ray, you are one of the greatest gifts God has chosen to give me. I will never be the same ..... I have been greenish-black from being at the bottom of may glaciers in life and dark-striped from carrying around rubble and dirt and rocks and from joining of other tributary glaciers. Praise you Lord, YOU are so worthy to be PRAISED! thank you for your grace and mercy and for delivering me up from the depths of the slushy, merky cold waters. I Love you!
"And it will come about in the last days that the Mountain of the House of The Lord will be established as the Chief of the mountains ...and the people will stream to it> Many nations will come & say, "come and let us go uo to the mountain of the Lord & to the House ...that HE may teach us about HIS ways & that we may walk in HIS paths." (Micah 4:1,2) ...... and be "covered in HIS dust".