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Saturday, January 2, 2010

January 1 ... Genesis 1 - 3 "Brooding Over My Mess"

Genesis 1:2 - the Spirit of God is brooding over the waters like a bird over its nest until new life stirs beneath the sheltering wings. That so touches me. I know where I've come from and the viciousness of my heart like Peter in cutting off the ear of the soldier. Wanting something way too much and sometimes more than wanting the Love of my God. I don't want that to sway the fray of my heart in 2010---not ambition for ministry; not to be somebody; but for a Beautiful God Who was brooding on Day #1 and Who still broods this first day over all the darkness in my life and is turning it into Light! Psalm 18:28. I find such comfort knowing HE is brooding over my mess to bring new Life in me in 2010.
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  1. AnonymousJanuary 2, 2010 at 6:32 PM

    What version are you reading? I'm reading The Message and it doesn't use those exact words for Genesis 1:2.

    Thanks!

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  2. Bev Brandon @ The FrayJanuary 2, 2010 at 8:34 PM

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  3. Bev Brandon @ The FrayJanuary 2, 2010 at 8:58 PM

    I am reading The Message; however I went to the Hebrew Old Testament to look up the word "brooded" to see if the tense of the word was progressive and applied to today. It was. My version of The Message said: "God's Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss." I am so intrigued by the word brooding like a bird until new life springs up. Sorry I made it confusing.

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  4. twinkleJanuary 2, 2010 at 11:27 PM

    Gen. 3:16a - Woman's Curse -
    "You'll want to please your husband, but he'll lord it over you."

    I've heard so much about the curse of pain with childbirth, but not too much about our husbands lording our desire to please them over us.

    Pondering that. I've always felt like we have a strong desire to please our husbands but never noticed that our husbands were the same with us.

    I'm going to get personal here and I hope I don't offend anyone, but a husband's desire towards a wife...do you think it's more physical or emotional?

    I don't think husbands and wives are a match on this one and now I see it is probably because of this curse...

    I want intimacy and my husband...well, not so much.

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  5. Bev Brandon @ The FrayJanuary 3, 2010 at 9:33 AM

    ps - no quotes will mean that I paraphrased the verse in my own words

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  6. AnonymousJanuary 4, 2010 at 2:21 AM

    Okay, thank you for clarifying that, Bev. No quotes = paraphrasing!


    Erin

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