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

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		     What Was Destroyed

I have seen what has been damaged.  I have seen what the canker worm and 
the locust have damaged.  I have seen that you have found yourself in a 
place of desolation and pain, and what lay at your feet was in ruins.

You have built on a firm foundation.  This has not been shaken, this 
cannot be shaken, this cannot be destroyed.  Everything may collapse 
around you, everyone may desert you, but you stand on a firm foundation 
and I have promised, yes, I have promised, to lift you up, to give you 
strength so that you may soar on the wings of eagles and nothing will 
harm you.  Nothing will harm you.  When all seems lost around you, 
remember Me, for I am with you, even unto the ends of the Earth.  What 
can harm you?  Did I not promise I am always with you?

I have watched as you clothed yourself in guilt and shod yourself with 
heavy boots so your walk was slow and hard.  I have watched as you hung 
your head and I have seen into the depths of your beating heart.  I have 
not turned away.  Though the air seems still and hot around you, I, yes 
I, will never turn away.  I will take what the enemy has meant for bad, 
and I will turn it into good, for I am capable and I will turn the season 
of mourning into a season of joy, a season of ripeness, a season of plenty.  
Your cup shall overflow with good things, your days shall be filled with 
laughter, for I am returning all that the enemy has stolen.  I have not 
forgotten you.  From the rising of the sun through the creeping of the 
night, I have watched and I have loved you, always.  Precious are you in 
My sight.

Your foundation is firm, and this is where you chose to stand.  Nothing 
shall shake this ground.  What is lost will be returned and what you 
think is destroyed is about to blossom.  Are the trees not bare and still 
through the winter months, yet as the sun returns to warm the branches, 
are the buds not more beautiful than you remembered?  If I do not forget 
this, to clothe the trees in magnificent splendor, in abundance, shall I 
forget you?  Never have I turned away.

Be still.  Be still.  Your heart is before Me.  My promises are Yes and 
Amen.