Date: Friday, October 14, 2005
Message: "I Am the Hound of Heaven."
Today, I decided to begin journaling, Much has happened since a thirty-minute near-death experience just a few weeks ago, September 26, 2005.
Today the Lord spoke. He revealed more about Himself than what He communicated a few weeks ago. The Lord said, "I Am the Hound of Heaven." In hindsight, I completely understand. He was definitely in hot pursuit when I was a a child, a teenager and now as an adult. Yes, Lord, you are the "Hound of Heaven!" Your constant call is grace. Your persistent quest, unyielding. Suffering, a gift so that I might gain the pearl of great prize. Your hunt, a gift, that when answered, ends in eternal life.
Brother Joseph +
Coincidentally, God has also been known as "The Hound of Heaven" in historical English literature since the late 1800s. English poet Francis Thompson authored 182-line poem that famously describes the call of God on human lives in a very poetic but down-to-earth realistic way. ”The Hound of Heaven” was first published in Thompson's first volume of poems in 1893. Later, it was also included in the Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse.
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