Diane Virginia: Renewal of the Bride
A natural spring that has been frozen all Winter, has begun to trickle again. It gurgles across the grass and clay, etching a zig-zag into the land. A bumblebee sips from the rock it wets. …
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Diane Virginia: Eyelash-Mommy Evolution
What’s that? Yes, there’s a story that goes with the above. If you’re a mom or grandma, I’m pretty sure you’ll relate. …
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Diane Virginia: The Bridegroom’s Kiss
Song of Solomon is a misunderstood book, and rarely read, because we don’t know how to interpret its passionate phrases and subject matter. And yet, here it is—smack dab in the middle of our Bibles. This mystery is unraveled when…
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Diane Virginia: Garden Multiplication
Multiplication happens because of the garden exchange of the Bride and Groom. The blessing doesn’t stay between you and He—it affects everyone. Because you and Beloved are communing deeply, so can they. For this reason, it is the perfect place for the message to your friends to be located. …
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Diane Virginia: Disciplined Strength
“Patience is disciplined strength.” I heard the Lord speak those words into my spirit after I sent the message. I’d like to say I heard right away, but it was days later when I’d tapped back into my prayer life that I heard God’s correction. Because I had strayed from the confines of the Spirit, I needed to repent…and ask a brother’s forgiveness.
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Diane Virginia: Freedom Forecaster
Although I was experiencing the contrasts between modest and wealthy living, the real message had nothing to do with money. In the spiritual realm, the concept is freedom in Christ….
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Diane Virginia: The Year We Didn’t Exchange Cards
My husband was returning from a week-long work trip. As the hours ticked by, thoughts consumed me about our treasured tradition. Sure, he knew I loved him, as I knew he loved me. But the glimmer in his eyes as he’d hold my cards let me know he understood love best by reading affirmations. My husband would display his cards for months, then he’d file them in his card box. …
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Diane Virginia: The Boiling Pot
Two Hebrew words describe your spiritual romance in Song of Solomon to your Beloved Bridegroom, Jesus Christ. One of these words allegorically parallels the above imagery of lovers captivated by their love-relationship. Prepare to be blessed by what we’ll discover…
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Diane Virginia: Lost & Found
Matt was four, Danielle was six, and we were at the mall’s pet store. A clerk placed a puppy in my hands, which I coddled, showed Danielle, and then turned around to show to my son. But in those few seconds, he had slipped away—it happened so fast. …
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Diane Virginia: Homemade Bread
“Nothing about bread making comes easy, child. It takes precise measurements, and strong arms willing to thoroughly kneed these loaves. Now it’s going to be a prettier loaf,” Mother said, returning the towel atop the loaf pan. The dough would rise again before she’d baked it…
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Diane Virginia: Our Bridegroom is the Lion of Judah
In Song of Solomon, we as Bride say “His eyes are like doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk and fitly set” (Song 5:12 NKJV). This references Beloved Jesus as filled with the Spirit, and rightly aligned. Can He also be this Lion? Yes, Love, He absolutely can be and He is. Beloved is holy, and not affected with sin the way we have been even though He has been tempted in every way (see Hebrews 4:15), so He is the only person who can pronounce this final judgment, and the only one who can save the Christian from it. This speaks doom to satan and his cohorts, but rescue to the Bride of Christ. …
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