Reflections rooted in:

Pentecost, the birthday of the Church, fellowship, breaking bread, spiritual life, and shared humanity through Scripture.

I will be bringing other posts here from another blog. Acts2One is about the birthday of the Church in the 1st. Century. This is where the whole idea of The Gathering Place started and why we named our home and this blog the same.It surely encapsultates all we try to do in hospitality, compassion and truth and really where the whole idea of equality is perfected. I mentioned truth and this is hugely important.

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.“

John 8:32 King James Version of 1611

This verse does not say set you free. It says and it means, “make you free.” So this is the importance of truth first of all is that if it is the truth, it will make one free. And these words of truth are authored by God who is, Spirit.

“It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.“

John 6:63 King James Version of 1611

—Dahni

📜 Worth Day

By Dahni

©️ 2026, all rights reserved

I do not know about you, but I do not remember the hour, day or year when I first became a Christian. As far back as I can recall, I was a Christian even as a child. I just know that the age of accountability is different for each person, just like our individual fingerprints. But by “age of accountability” whatever was my age, I had to have been taught and understood and confessed with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and that God raised him from the dead. This is what it says in Romans 10:9-11 the King James version of the Bible, of 1611.

“That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed”

For myself and like what the legal profession calls “settled law,” these truths for me are a done-deal. I don’t wonder about or argue about these things anymore. I have not, for at least fifty years. Though you and I may remember by calendar our birthday month, day and year, if like me, you may not know when yours or my born-again date occurred.

Maybe some of you that read here, were taught that you had to spend time confessing your sins? But the Word just says to confess the savior of sin and somehow, to believe (an active verb that connotes action) that God raised him from the dead. So simple that even a chid could understand this. I did and I was a child.

And I do not question who these verses apply to. “Whosoever” means to me, “whosoever” or as God classifies all people according to I Corinthians 10:32 Jew (Judean), Gentile or Church of God. That’s simple too. I don’t question that either and I have not for many years. Yes, I do believe God says what He means and He means what he says. But there is something else here. “Worth Day” what is that?

Some believe that there are three ages of us people — chronological (our time alive on this earth from our day of birth), an emotional age, and an intellectual age. Some say these three are seldom together at the same time or occur at the same time. I don’t know about those things. But I now know the month, day and year of what I am calling my— “Worth Day” happened.

Years ago I remember when a man I respected said to others about me, “He will be fantastic when he makes up his mind.” Instead of just being honored by these words, I wondered what he was even talking about. He obviously saw potential in me and please note he did not say “if” he makes up his mind, but “when.” Well, those words were at least from fifty years ago. People arrive when they arrive. They get it when they get it. For me, this was on April 22, 2026. Well, what does this even mean— “Worth Day”?

For one thing and as a memory aide or a memory peg, Earth Day was also celebrated on April 22, 2026. This was the 56^th celebration of Earth Day to be exact. Earth Day originated from a vision by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin and was set for April 22, 1970. For me, I thought “earth” and “worth” would help me remember April 22. I also figured it was just a matter of repetition until I would recall the year, just as I do my first birth. But what is my— “Worth Day”?

You could refer to this as my personal covenant marker, but this does not even communicate to me what it is. Instead, I write this—

“The day in which I became meet for the master’s use and freely (spiritually) gave my ear lobe).”

That language echoes this passage very closely:

“And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master… I will not go out free: Then his master… shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him for ever.”

Exodus 21:5–6 King James version 1611

After a certain time, the master could choose to let his slave (servant) go free. But if this slave or servant willed to not go “free” there was another tradition where a master seeing potential, ability, and trustworthiness might offer this to his servant, to accept this position of authority, responsibility and added benefits, having shown his faithfulness to his master. It should be noted that the culture of the times between a master and a servant (slave) like this was, the master’s FREE will offering and the servant’s FREE will acceptance. In the New Testament the Greek word used for this is doulos. And not just a slave, but a bond slave. It had a completely different feel than that we may know today as slavery or servitude. While a awl through the earlobe might seem cruel, it was likely no different than having an ear pierced today. But this act meant so much more then, than why people would merely, albeit temporarily endure the pain in piercing their ears today. Whenever the doulos would appear, he was showing the reputation of his master by his earlobe and he was showing any eye that would look upon him that he was surely, 100‰, and absolutely a dedicated free-man-bond slave, to his master’s words and deeds.

My phrase:

“meet for the master’s use”

Connects beautifully with:

“…a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.”

II Timothy 2:21 KJV

So what I did on April 22, 2026 — intentionally or not — is bring together:

✔ Love
✔ Choice
✔ Preparedness
✔ Belonging

The morning of April 22^nd, and for around six hours, there was not much going on, none the much different than the pressures and tensions I had been feeling to this point. You already know what I am referring to, a lot of it— here is another thing, there goes another thing, another SNAFU or something amiss. I thought I had been handling the pressure. But your body will try and handle it with higher blood pressure, racing pulse, even headaches and so on. But I thought I was handling this, not always well, but handling them. No.

I was ready to quit and totally give up, not because I had no guts to endure or just a “flesh memories” of my past experiences. I thought of something else.

Maybe I am not committed to what I am doing? Maybe my reason for who I am and what I do was not clear? So I thought, IF I could focus on these things, maybe I would have some relief?

Then I thought, this cannot be a maybe, a test, or a try it out and see. No, I had to make up my mind. The words “stick to it” or “stick like glue” came to mind. So did “selling out”, “resolved” and, “being committed” so, I wrote the following:

I am

I am walking towards a place where I may never enter

I am building a house where I may never live

I am erecting a brdge I may never cross

I am planting a tree I may never climb

I am sowing seed whose fruit I may never drink nor eat

but…

I am

—Dahni

I do not know if this communicates to you the way it does to me, but in it shows that I have made up my mind “I am” and the reasons for this could be for God, myself, you and all of the above, without distinction or contradiction. But from this, I wanted to understand more about what I was committed to, resolved for and had made up my mind towards. And I need to further understand those reasons.

Biblically and scripturally, I began to study the Hebrew word for “cleave” and the Greek word for “doulos”. I am still working these. But in so doing I found this —

tiš·šā·ḇê·a‘ – pronounced – tish-shah-VAY-ah

Hebrew: תִּשָּׁבֵעַ
Transliteration: tiššāvēaʿ
Strong’s Concordance Root: H7650 — שָׁבַע (shābaʿ)

Occurs in:

Deuteronomy 10:20

“Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear (you shall bind yourself) by his name.

What I am saying that spiritually on April 22^nd, 2026, my “Worth Day” is, the day that I made up my mind. Like what the courts call settled law — decided and no longer debated — so this decision in me is settled. I have borne my ear for my Master, My Lord, My Father and My Friend to take His awl and mark me as his bond slave, his “doulos” fit for His use.

I do not remember the day I was born. I do not remember the day I was born again. But I will remember this day.

What does it feel like? Am I in any way different? I have the same personality, the same body, mind and spirit. I have what I call, many of the same “flesh memories”. Still there is something different.

First, the following day or on Thursday, Aprils 23^rd, 2026, I recalled those words of the man who believed in me many years ago. Can I not say and I do say the same for God. He has known me, loved me, carried me and waited for me, even before the foundations of the universe were ever laid. Same is true for anyone that wills to come to Him. But there is a peace. There is a certainty in me now, that no matter what, this is who I am and what I do. Yesterday, Saturday April 25^th, I began my morning with prayer as I often do, not daily, but often. But instead of praying for my stuff, I prayed for His Stuff. I am part of His Stuff. I am not mine anymore, but it is the recognition that He has freely given to me and that I have freely given myself to Him. And whether or not like Moses got to see the promised land but never entered in, and maybe I will never live in the home I am building or ever cross the bridge I am building, never climb the trees I plant or eat or drink of the fruit from the seed I sow, but this is who I am and what I do. What do I, what do you expect? What should I or you expect from this? Well, I now understand that I am in good company with anyone that has ever succeeded with anything that they have have committed themselves to do and shown to the world.

For my part, everything sent into the world is like a quiet visit —
a small piece of me arriving at your Gathering Place to be shared with family and friends and all who come.

For God so loved the world…

John 3;16a KJV

Argue about any of this if you will, I am just a witness,

Dahni