Tatted and Burned

Hello, Gentlemen.

It’s me again, Sheryle.

I have received, I believe, another message. The Most High willing, I will pass this onto you.

You and I have something in common, as unlikely as that may be to believe.

So, before we get into it, this is a TMI- “Too Much Information”- warning about me.

Part of what led me to touch base with you again is the holiday season, and how it intersects with my breast cancer diagnosis.

Eight Christmases ago, I was undergoing a course of radiation. I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017, had a double mastectomy that October, and then, six weeks later, went through a six-week round of radiation.

Yes, double mastectomy, Gentlemen. My tatas are gone. I am officially an ironing board now.

Anyway, to prepare for radiation, I needed to get tattoos.

Not one of those exciting peacock tattoos, draped across my back. Not one of those full-on sleeves, like those the Yakuza gang gets.

Nope.

These tattoos looked like the black beauty mark on Marilyn Monroe’s face. I was tatted with three tiny black dots, in triangle form. This arrangement helped the radiation target my chest area, ensuring the best shot of eradicating any leftover cancer cells.

I had to be marked. I had to “get inked.”

Tatts were necessary. A matter of life and death.

Like your tattoo history has, perhaps, meant matters of life and death for you throughout your life.

Getting these tiny dot tatts summoned the next phase of my preparation/ healing: the burning from radiation.

Six weeks, day after day of getting increasingly burned, again, to wipe out cancer cells.

Because of the timing of my radiation, December, I was very much Rudolph, the Red-Chested Reindeer.

Christmas red. Festive.

Anyway, you may be eye rolling and asking, “What does any of this have to do with me?”

Tatted and burned. You are too.

And He, The Most High, is working in and through all of it.

Scripture puts it this way…

“See, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me.”

Isaiah 49:16

Different translations of this scripture use words like, “engraved,” “etched,” and yeah, even, “tattooed.”

I know that there can be a stigma about tattoos from the Christian world. You have probably been made to feel less-than, disqualified, and maybe even like the scum of the earth, largely because of your appearance.

To that, I offer…

“‘…(Elohim) the LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but (Elohim) the LORD looks at the heart.”

1 Samuel 16:7

And…

“The traditions of man make the Word of The Most High to no effect.”

Mark 7:13

To me, that signifies that Our Savior and Our Father (for they both are “One,” according to John 10:30) have decided to override man’s silly, judgy, and pointless opinions, opting instead, to qualify you, my Tatted/Marked One, for His Power and Glory.

He uses whomever He chooses. He qualifies them without anyone else’s permission.

“There are many plans in a man’s heart, Nevertheless (Elohim) the LORD’s counsel—that will stand.”

Proverbs 19:21

His Plans will stand.

Not any uptight, hypocritical, judgy, or stupid person’s opinions or plans.

HIS Plans!

You are exactly who you are supposed to be. You look like you are supposed to look, tatts included.

“…‘You are My servant. I have chosen you and have not cast you away.”

Isaiah 41:9

Now, about the burning…

Since you are chosen, handpicked, and marked up by His Holy Autoclave, you are prepped for the burning of His refining fire…

“For My Name’s Sake I will defer My anger, And for My Praise I will restrain it from you, So that I do not cut you off. Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction. For My Own Sake, for My Own Sake, I will do it; For how should My name be profaned? And I will not give My glory to another.”

Isaiah 48:9-11

For HIS Name’s Sake? For HIS Praise?

You’re not going to be cut off.

Furnace of affliction (You are BURNED, through your life experiences)! You’re going to be precious metal!

Want some more proof?

“I will bring the one-third through the fire, Will refine them as silver is refined, And test them as gold is tested. They will call on My Name, And I will answer them. I will say, ‘This is My people’; And each one will say, ‘(Elohim) The LORD is my God (The Most High).’ ”

Zechariah 13:9

“Each one’s work will become evident; for the day will show it because it is to be revealed with fire, and the fire itself will test the quality of each one’s work.”

1 Corinthians 3:13

Gentlemen, you are officially in your tatted and burned, Divine Purpose process.

Again, His Plans will stand. He has MARKED you.

Go with the marking then, not against it!

“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you… thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
Jeremiah 29:11

So, Gentlemen, This is your moment. You have the tatts, the scars, and the lives on fire, in numerous personal ways.

Get closer to Him then.

You’re already His MARKED ONE, tattoo, or no tattoo.

He told you as well that your walls- your prison walls- are always before Him (Isaiah 49:16).

He sees you.

You cannot get away from Him.

His Glory, through you, is in the works now.

Just get closer to Him.

He loves you. He’s closer than the skin over your bones.

I hope to pipe in, again, The Most High willing, and be the mosquito cheerleader that is part of my personality.

I don’t know if this will be a “thing” The Most High is doing. I hope it is.

He has put you all on my radar screen. I love you.

Blessings to every single one of you! Merry Christmas!

Love,

Sheryle (You can call me Rudolph, in keeping with the holiday spirit)

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