The Wild Olive Shoot Community


Once, there was a church that received a vision from God. They dared to do what no other church at that time had done. They grew, and spread across the nation. They called themselves the Blaze Community.

But it absorbed teachings from other groups, both Christian and Pagan. The vision became polluted. Rather than examining itself, the Blaze Community became proud and arrogant, standing alone as the true church, against all opposition.

The Blaze died to an ember as people left, fleeing tyranny, judgement, and forced austerity. Humbly, the Blaze Community leaders sought God's forgiveness and direction.

Now the community received a new vision. One of grace, love, forgiveness, and mercy. Aware that it had been given another chance by God, it renamed itself the Wild Olive Shoot Community, with the knowledge that God could pluck them out of the Cultivated Olive (the universal church) if they ever again fell away from the path to which God had called them.

Thursday 23 February 2012

Joy Bringer

Happiness is the dancing fountain
But joy the spring that flows beneath

Joy is laughter
Joy is dancing
The hug of a friend
The kiss of a lover

Joy is birdsong
Dancing dragonflies
The smell of lavender
The touch of velvet

All this is joy, but it goes deeper

Joy is the mother holding her baby
Freshly delivered from the incubator.

Joy is the doctor's "All Clear"
Lifting the spectre of cancer.

Joy is the parent's open arms
Receiving the child long lost.

Joy rises from hope as the heart says
"They will save you. They will come."

Joy is a time of lucidity
Before dementia claims the loved one back.

Joy is the man on the mountaintop
Standing on legs made of steel.

May you find joy in every moment.
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