The IS-flower
Son of God,
We give thanks for the revelation of your "I AM" to us. Please forgive me for asking You one day: "May I draw Your aura?" You replied, "You may try."
Filled with respect, I took your name which was the most beautiful to me: "Christus"[1]. My pencil moved around your name, and what was the result? A flower with eight petals and the "IS" in the middle! That is just like You are, in the smallest flower and in all; in the large and in the smallest, You are everywhere.
You probably taught that to Your disciples. At Gethsemane, I asked You where the real Gethsemane was. As always, you instructed me in images. We had to walk straight ahead, over stones and walls. You showed us the mount of olives, and the place where You were during the last hour, alone with Your great sorrow, because people did not understand You and therefore judged You. You said: "Here, My struggle was the most difficult." I sensed Your presence at that special place in the field with enormous awe and reverence.
Later, at the church dedicated to Mary, You asked me to cross the bridge, and You lead us to to a cave-door with the name "Gethsemane" above it. Inside, drawn on the walls of the cave, were several IS-flowers, exactly as as You made me draw them! Later, back at the bridge, the radiance of Your Light was intense above the cave. Oh Father, how can we ever thank You enough for the revelation of the IS-flower and the truth it holds; as only You, the I AM in all, "IS" truth.
The IS-flower
I AM WHO I AM (Exodus 3:14) [2].
I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me (John 14:6).
At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you (John 14:20).
May His I AM live in you eternally.
The IS-flowers in the Cave of Gethsemane
Notes:
[1] Christus - Afrikaans for Christ.
[2] God's name, 'I AM WHO I AM', 'EK IS WIE EK IS' in Afrikaans.