This word is submitted by Jane Larsen (jlarsen65@hotmail.com)

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                         Walking Forward

The time of transition has not been easy.  The process has been hard.  Many
of you have walked in valleys, some have trudged wearily up mountains,
others have hidden alone in caves, waiting to be transformed, waiting in
your lonely and hard place.

I tell you that this was for a reason, for there was much you carried with
you when you began the journey that you did not need.  You were weighted
down, you were unable to focus for so great were the cares you carried with
you.  Bit by bit you have dropped them along the way.  Bit by bit you have
shed the old and made room for the new.  The further you traveled, the
closer you came to Me and all I have for you.

I know this has been a long and hard season, where you have often felt you
were hanging on to air.  I know that you lifted your tearful face to Me in
the place of silence that you were in, and wondered why heaven was still,
but I am never still.  I was transforming you, I was allowing you to let go
of those things that held you down, that imprisoned you, so you could come
through, refined and pure, perfect and strong, ready to walk the new walk,
without the burdens of the world.

Now you will walk straight, now you will walk tall.  See, there is no
luggage on your shoulders, no burdens in your hands, now you are free.  
Now you are free.  There are places I will send you, the chosen ones, the 
ones that have been in the valleys, on the mountains and in the caves.  
There are places that call.  You will speak to others who do not know Me, 
who are in places of sadness and pain. You will carry hope, not despair.  
There are those who are ill, who see no way to be cured, who you will 
touch in My name, and who will find freedom from their ailments.  Now 
you carry healing.

There are those who are prisoners to sin, who think that is the only way,
and now you will go to them and carry the truth, for you know the truth.
You have met with the truth and the truth has set you free.  Go, set others
free in My name.  There are now no chains holding you back.

Look.  Look at the you that you have become.  The love that now burns in
your heart, the strength that abides in you, the wisdom that your lonely
journey has given you.  Go, feed those that hunger, give to those who
thirst, give to them from the brook of living water.

I have called you from the mountaintops, I have brought you from the
deserts, I have carried you through the valleys and I have set you in a new
place.  Brush the dust from your cloak and walk on, lightened and healed,
restored and refined and do not look back, for behind you is what you no
longer need and before you is all that you will ever want.