I sit at my kitchen table-- the soft glow from the Christmas lights illuminating the room and the realization that I have too much work to be writing this striking me... but hey just in case you haven't reveled in it lately -- God is good. We took a walk earlier and it was one of those nights that I needed Him to hold the pillows. See, when I get frustrated or upset sometimes I will have my good friends or my brother Graham hold a big stack of pillows and I will punch them until I feel all the tension has drained away. This doesn't happen too often anymore but tonight God held the pillows and I punched away-- I walked and poured out every disappointment, frustration and desire. I just put it all out there. The snow began falling on my face and I kept walking. And you know what?
At the end of the day God is good.
Even when life as we see it isn't what we "want" or what we expected or think might be good.
I laughed with God a bit as we talked about how I was getting frustrated at things in "my" life-- as if! We chucked -- well, actually I did-- and I think He did a little too. Do you ever have trouble being content? Here is what I was reminded of ...
Don't be wishing you were someplace else or with someone else. Where you are right now is God's place for you. Live and obey and love and believe right there."
1 Corinthians 7:17 (the message)
I heard-- "I am good Hope. Hope, just stop-- I'm so good."
beautiful huh? Just relax and live in gorgeous, simple, glorious abandonment. JOY. That is such a theme this semester.
I walked back into my townhouse and my housemate asked me what I was grinning about-- I said "Just because He's good. (pause) Just because He is so good."
I don't know what you were wishing for but I wasn't wishing for a snowstorm -- yet somehow it is abundantly more than I asked for.
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