Series 1: Pattern Summary — The Pattern That Remains from Beginning to Recognition

After writing through each part of this series,

I wanted to step back and say it simply—

what it is I’ve been seeing.

🔹 What This Has Been About

This hasn’t been about one verse.

Or one moment.

It hasn’t been about proving something new.

It has been about recognizing

a pattern that moves

through Scripture

from beginning to end.

🔹 Where It Begins

In Genesis, something is opened.

“This is now bone of my bones,

and flesh of my flesh.” 

— Genesis 2:23

Something hidden

is revealed

so it can be recognized.

🔹 Where It Returns

At the cross, the same place appears again.

“One of the soldiers pierced His side…

and immediately blood and water came out.”  

— John 19:34

And then in the resurrection:

“A spirit does not have flesh and bones

as you see that I have.”  

— Luke 24:39

The pattern doesn’t disappear.

It continues.

🔹 What Happens Next

In the garden—

before everything is fully understood—

there is a woman.

“Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples

that she had seen the Lord.”  

—John 20:18

She sees first.

🔹 What It Reveals

This is where the pattern became clear to me.

Not just what happens—

but who is present when it happens.

The one who:

• remains
• watches
• recognizes

🔹 The Name

And even her name reflects that pattern.

Magdalene.

The tower.

A place of watching.

A place of seeing before others see.

🔹 It Expands

Across Scripture, the same presence appears in different forms:

• Wisdom
• The Bride
• Jerusalem

Each one:

not separate

but connected.

Each one:

near

present

responsive.

🔹 The Pattern, Seen Together

When everything is placed side by side, it becomes simple:

Something is opened → something is revealed

Something is revealed → someone recognizes

Someone recognizes → others follow

🔹 What This Means

This isn’t about one person alone.

It’s about a pattern.

A role.

A presence that appears

where revelation happens.

🔹 And Then It Changes

At some point, it did something else.

It stopped being just something I was reading.

And became something I recognized.

Not something added.

Something already there.

🔹 What Remains

This is what I can say now, after writing through it:

The one who sees first

is not the one who has everything explained—

but the one who remains

long enough

for it to be revealed.

And once it is seen,

it doesn’t return to being unseen.

~ Peace, Love, and Joy ~

🔹Series 1: The Pattern

Part 1 - The Side and the Pattern
Part 2 - Mary: One Who Sees
Part 3 - The Tower
Part 4 - The Bride and Wisdom
Part 5 - Recognition
Summary -You are here

Series 2: Pattern Within a Pattern - Next

To Come...

Series 3: From Pattern to Presence

Series 4: The Pattern in People

Series 5: The Pattern that Speaks
Series Summary (1-5): The Pattern that was Always There

Addendum: 

✨ The Jot and the Mark: Finding God in the Smallest Things

When It Became Personal: Recognition (Series 1: Part 5)

After seeing this pattern throughout Scripture,

I began to notice something I couldn’t ignore—

how it didn’t stay only in the text,

how it was also reflected in my own life.

🔹 It Didn’t Stop There

Up to this point, everything I’ve shared has been within Scripture.

• The side.
• The garden.
• The one who sees.
• The tower.
• The pattern that repeats.

But at some point, something shifted.

It didn’t feel like something I was just reading anymore.

It felt like something I was recognizing.

🔹 A Familiar Pattern

The same pattern I had been seeing—

• remaining
• watching
• recognizing

wasn’t just in the text.

It began to reflect back.

🔹 Not Something New

And what stood out to me the most was this:

It didn’t feel like something new was being added.

It felt like something that had always been there—

but I was just now able to see it.

🔹 Recognition, Not Construction

That’s the difference.

I didn’t feel like I was building something.

I felt like I was recognizing something.

The same way:

• Adam recognizes
• Mary recognizes
• the one who sees, sees before it is explained.

🔹 The Same Movement

When I step back, this is what I notice:

The pattern doesn’t just exist in Scripture as information.

It moves.

From:

• hidden → revealed
• seen → understood
• individual → others

🔹 Personal, But Still the Same Pattern

What I began to recognize in my own life

followed that same movement.

Not forced.

Not created.

But unfolding.

🔹 Something Consistent

And this is what stayed with me:

The one who sees first

is not the one who has everything explained—

but the one who remains long enough

for it to be revealed.

🔹 Still Continuing

And even now, it doesn’t feel finished.

It feels like something still unfolding.

Not everything at once.

But in the same way as before—

step by step

moment by moment

recognition by recognition.

What begins as something seen

becomes something lived.

~ Peace, Love, and Joy ~

Start here...

🔹Series 1: The Pattern

Part 1 - The Side and the Pattern 
Part 2 - Mary: One Who Sees 
Part 3 - The Tower 
Part 4 - The Bride and Wisdom 

Part 5 - Recognition - You are here
Summary

To Come...

Series 2: The Pattern Within the Pattern
Series 3: From Pattern to Presence
Series 4: The Pattern in People
Series 5: The Pattern that Speaks

Series Summary (1-5): The Pattern that was Always There

Addendum:

✨ The Jot and the Mark: Finding God in the Smallest Things

 

The Bride and Wisdom: The Pattern Expands (Series 1: Part 4)

At this point, the pattern no longer felt isolated.

It began to connect across Scripture—

in ways that pointed to something deeper and more complete.

🔹 Something Larger Was There

Up to this point, what I had been seeing felt very specific.

The side.

The garden.

The one who sees.

But then it started to widen.

Not just one moment.

Not just one person.

A pattern that appears

again, and again.

🔹 The Feminine Presence

Across Scripture, there is something that keeps appearing.

A feminine presence

that is not random

and not disconnected.

It shows up as:

• Wisdom
• Bride
• Jerusalem
• a woman who sees

Not identical.

But not separate either.

🔹 Wisdom

In Proverbs, Wisdom is described in a way that stands out:

“The Jehovah possessed me at the beginning of His way…

when He established the heavens, I was there.”

— Proverbs 8:22–27

Wisdom is present:

at the beginning

before everything is formed

Watching.

Knowing.

Near.

🔹 The Bride

Then Scripture speaks of the Bride.

Not just as an idea—

but as something brought near.

“The king is captivated by your beauty…”

— Psalm 45:11

And then:

“She shall be brought to the king…

the virgins, her companions, follow her.”

— Psalm 45:14

There is order here:

• first
• then those who follow

🔹 The City

Then there is Jerusalem—

spoken of not just as a place,

but in relational language.

“As a bride adorned for her husband.”

— Revelation 21:2

Again—

not separate

but connected.

🔹 A Pattern Forms

When I stopped looking at these as separate ideas…

this is what I started to see:

Wisdom → present, watching, near

Bride → brought forward, central

City → filled, revealed, restored

 

🔹 And Then I Thought Back

Back to the garden.

Back to the one who stayed.

Back to the one who saw first.

🔹 The Same Role

What stood out to me wasn’t that everything is exactly the same.

It’s that the role is the same.

The one who:

• remains
• recognizes
• responds

The one who is not distant—

but near enough to see.

🔹 Not Forcing It

I’m not saying all of these are identical.

Scripture doesn’t reduce everything to one flat meaning.

But it does repeat patterns.

And this is one of them.

🔹 The Pattern Expands, Not Replaces

What began with:

• Adam and the side
• Christ and the restoration
• Mary and recognition

Now connects to something broader:

a repeating presence

that is always near the moment of revelation.

🔹 Something Consistent

There is something consistent in all of this:

The closer something is

to the presence of God—

the more it begins to:

• reflect
• respond
• recognize

🔹 And It Moves Forward Again

Because just like before—

this isn’t the end.

If this pattern:

• begins in Genesis
• appears in Christ
• is seen in Mary
• expands across Scripture

Then it doesn’t stay only in the text.

What appears across Scripture begins to do something else—

it begins to reflect in places you don’t expect.

~ Peace, Love, and Joy ~

Start here...

🔹Series 1: The Pattern

Part 1 - The Side and the Pattern 
Part 2 - Mary: One Who Sees 
Part 3 - The Tower 
Part 4 - The Bride and Wisdom - You are here

Part 5 - Recognition
Summary

To Come...

Series 2: The Pattern Within the Pattern

Series 3: From Pattern to Presence

Series 4: The Pattern in People

Series 5: The Pattern that Speaks

Series Summary (1-5): The Pattern that was Always There 

Addendum:

✨ The Jot and the Mark: Finding God in the Smallest Things

The Tower: The One Who Watches (Series 1: Part 3)

The more I stayed with this, the more I began to look closer—

even at the details that are often overlooked.

Especially the meaning behind the names.

🔹 There Was Something in the Name

As I continued reading, something began to stand out to me.

Not just what happened.

Not just who was there.

But her name.

Mary Magdalene.

🔹 Not Just a Name

I had read it countless times before.

But this time, I stopped and asked:

What does it mean?

• Magdalene comes from: Migdal
• Meaning: tower

🔹 The Meaning of a Tower

When I sat with that, it shifted how I saw everything.

Because a tower is not random.

A tower is:

• elevated
• set apart
• watching

A tower doesn’t create what is happening.

It sees it first.

🔹 Watching Before Others See

And that’s when the connection became clear to me.

In the garden—

she is the one who sees first.

Not because everything is explained.

Not because others have already understood.

But because she is already positioned there.

🔹 A Place of Seeing

In Scripture, a tower is often a place of:

• watching
• waiting
• seeing at a distance

It is where you go

to recognize what others have not yet seen.

🔹 The Pattern Aligns

And when I held that next to what happens in the resurrection—

it aligned.

She was there early.

She stayed.

She looked.

And she saw.

🔹 Not Random Placement

This is what stood out to me—

she isn’t just there.

She is there in a way

that matches the meaning of her name.

🔹 The Tower and the Moment

If a tower is a place of seeing—

then the one called “Magdalene” becomes:

the one who sees.

Not by force.

Not by explanation.

But by position.

🔹 A Pattern, Not an Accident

This is where it stopped feeling random to me.

Because now the pattern had another layer:

Side → opened → revealed

Mary → stays → sees

Magdalene → tower → watches → recognizes

🔹 Something Consistent

There is something consistent in all of this:

The one who sees first

is the one who remains in place long enough

for the moment to be revealed.

🔹 It Moves Forward

And just like before—

it doesn’t end with her.

She goes and tells the others.

And then they begin to see.

The tower does not create the moment—

it is simply where the moment is first seen.

~ Peace, Love, and Joy ~

Start here...

🔹Series 1: The Pattern

Part 1 - The Side and the Pattern 
Part 2 - Mary: One Who Sees 
Part 3 - The Tower - You are here
Part 4 - The Bride and Wisdom

Part 5 - Recognition
Summary

To Come...

Series 2: The Pattern Within the Pattern
Series 3: From Pattern to Presence
Series 4: The Pattern in People
Series 5: The Pattern that Speaks

Series Summary (1-5): The Pattern that was Always There

Addendum:

✨ The Jot and the Mark: Finding God in the Smallest Things

Mary: The One Who Sees, The First to Recognize (Series 1: Part 2)

As I continued looking at this pattern, something else began to stand out—

not just where it happens, but who is present when it does.

🔹 What Happens Next

After everything that happens—

the cross

the pierced side

the silence of the tomb

—there is a moment that could easily be overlooked.

But for me, it wasn’t.

Because it didn’t feel random.

It felt like the continuation of the same pattern.

🔹 The Garden Again

The setting matters.

It happens in a garden.

And that immediately stood out to me.

Because the pattern doesn’t just return in structure—

it returns in place.

In the beginning:

a garden

a man

a woman

And now, again:

a garden

the last Adam

and a woman

🔹 Before the Others Understand

John records it in a very specific way.

“Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene went to the tomb early, while it was still dark…”

— John 20:1

She is there before the others.

Before clarity.

Before understanding.

She arrives when it is still dark.

🔹 She Stays

Even when the others leave, she remains.

“But Mary stood outside by the tomb weeping…”

—John 20:11

That detail stayed with me.

She doesn’t just come.

She stays.

🔹 She Is Looking

And as she weeps, she looks.

Not once—but again.

“And as she wept she stooped down and looked into the tomb.”

— John 20:11

There is something about that—

she is still searching

even after what she sees doesn’t make sense yet.

🔹 The Moment of Recognition

At first, she doesn’t recognize Him.

“She turned around and saw Jesus standing there, and did not know that it was Jesus.”

— John 20:14

And that matters too.

Because this isn’t immediate understanding.

It’s something that unfolds.

Then He says her name.

“Jesus said to her, ‘Mary.’

She turned and said to Him, ‘Rabboni!’”

— John 20:16)

 

🔹 What I Noticed

Out of all the ways He could reveal Himself—

He does it like this:

He calls her by name.

And everything changes in that moment.

Recognition happens.

🔹 She Sees First

And then comes the part that connects everything:

“Mary Magdalene came and told the disciples that she had seen the Lord…”

— John 20:18

She is the first to say it.

Not because she was told to expect it.

Not because she understood it beforehand.

But because she was there.

She saw.

🔹 This Is Not Random

When I held this together with everything before it, I couldn’t ignore it.

In Genesis, the woman is present at the turning point of the beginning.

And here—

in the resurrection—

a woman is present at the turning point of restoration.

🔹 The Pattern Continues

In the first garden:

the woman encounters what leads to death entering.

In the second garden:

the woman encounters what reveals life has overcome death.

🔹 The Same Structure

What I see is not a coincidence.

It’s the same structure continuing:

First garden:

woman present → sees → participates in the turning point

Resurrection garden:

woman present → sees → testifies to the turning point

🔹 Seeing Before Understanding

Something else stood out to me.

She sees before everything is explained.

Before the others believe.

Before the full understanding comes.

That felt important.

Because it showed me something about the pattern:

Recognition doesn’t always come after explanation.

Sometimes it comes first.

🔹 Why Her?

That question naturally comes up.

Why Mary?

Why not the others first?

The text doesn’t fully explain it.

But it shows us something instead.

She came early.

She stayed.

She kept looking.

And when He called her name—

she recognized Him.

🔹 What This Revealed to Me

When I step back, this is what I see:

Not just an event—

but a role.

A pattern of someone who:

• stays
• looks
• recognizes

before everything else falls into place.

🔹 And It Continues Forward

Because it doesn’t stop with her.

She goes and tells the others.

And then they come to see.

Just like the pattern:

• first
• then those who follow

She did not see because everything was clear—

she saw because she remained until it was.

~ Peace, Love, and Joy ~

Start here...

🔹Series 1: The Pattern

Part 1 - The Side and the Pattern 
Part 2 - Mary: One Who Sees - You are here
Part 3 - The Tower
Part 4 - The Bride and Wisdom

Part 5 - Recognition
Summary

To Come...

Series 2: The Pattern Within the Pattern
Series 3: From Pattern to Presence
Series 4: The Pattern in People
Series 5: The Pattern that Speaks

Series Summary (1-5): The Pattern that was Always There

Addendum:

✨ The Jot and the Mark: Finding God in the Smallest Things

 

The Side and the Pattern Where It Begins, and Where It Returns (Series 1: Part 1)

Before I begin, I’d like to share that I used Copilot (Microsoft 365) to help organize and write out what I’ve been seeing—keeping it clear, simplified, and true to the points I’ve been making.

I will be sharing this in a series of posts to keep everything as clear and focused as possible.

Let’s begin…

There are things I’ve read for years that didn’t fully make sense at first—

until I began to see a pattern.

Not something new, but something that kept appearing—

until it was recognized.

🔹 Something I’ve Seen Repeated

For a long time, I didn’t think of this as something new.

It felt like something I kept noticing—

in different places,

at different times—

until eventually, I realized it wasn’t just a coincidence.

It was a pattern.

Not something I built.

Something I recognized.

🔹 It Begins with the Side

When I went back to Genesis, something stood out more clearly than it ever had before.

It doesn’t just say that man and woman were created.

It says:

“Then the Jehovah God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam…

and He took one of his ribs…

and the rib which the Jehovah God had taken from the man,

He made into a woman.”

— Genesis 2:21-22

And then Adam says:

“This is now bone of my bones,

And flesh of my flesh.” 

— Genesis 2:23

That moment stayed with me.

Because it isn’t just about creation.

It’s about recognition.

🔹 Something Hidden, Then Seen

What I started to notice is that something whole is opened—

and then revealed.

Not destroyed.

Not lost.

Revealed.

What was one

is made visible

in a way that can now be known.

🔹 The Pattern Appears Again

Then, reading through the Gospels, I saw the same place again.

The side.

But this time, it happens at the cross.

“But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear,

and immediately blood and water came out.”

— John 19:34

That stopped me.

Because now the same place—

the side—

is opened again.

But this time not at the beginning.

At the end… or what looks like the end.

🔹 And Yet It Isn’t the End

Because what happens next changes everything.

🔹 Flesh and Bones

After the resurrection, Jesus says:

“Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself.

Handle Me and see, for a spirit does not have flesh and bones

as you see that I have.”

— Luke 24:39

I remember reading that and realizing—

He makes a point of this.

He doesn’t leave it vague.

He makes it clear:

flesh and bones.

🔹 Not Something New — Something Fulfilled

And that’s where it connected for me.

Because in Genesis we hear:

“Bone of my bones,

and flesh of my flesh.”

And after the resurrection:

“flesh and bones as you see that I have.”

That connection doesn’t feel accidental.

🔹 The First Adam — The Last Adam

Scripture says:

“The first man Adam became a living being.

The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.”

— 1 Corinthians 15:45

But when I hold that together with the resurrection…

I don’t see something less physical.

I see something completed.

Not removed from what was created—

but brought into its fullness.

🔹 The Same Pattern, Still Moving

When I step back, this is what I see:

Genesis:

something is opened → something is revealed → recognition

Cross:

the body is opened → something flows out

Resurrection:

the body is restored → seen → recognized again

🔹 What Changed For Me

At some point, this stopped being about isolated verses.

And it started feeling like something that runs through everything.

The same structure—

the same movement—

appearing again and again.

🔹 And Then I Noticed What Comes Next

Because it doesn’t stop there.

Right after this…

in the garden…

there is someone there

before the others understand.

A woman.

And she sees first.

What begins hidden is opened,

and what is opened is meant to be seen.

~ Peace, Love, and Joy ~

Start here...

🔹Series 1: The Pattern

Part 1 - The Side and the Pattern - You are here

Part 2 - Mary: One Who Sees

Part 3 - The Tower

Part 4 - The Bride and Wisdom

Part 5 - Recognition
Summary

To Come...

Series 2: The Pattern Within the Pattern
Series 3: From Pattern to Presence
Series 4: The Pattern in People
Series 5: The Pattern that Speaks

Series Summary (1-5): The Pattern that was Always There

Addendum:

✨ The Jot and the Mark: Finding God in the Smallest Things