Delighting in the Divine
Yes to freedom, yes to play and yes to celebrating the moment!
All tagged Hope
We desire to do great things for God and we crave a community to do it with. Unfortunately, when we work alongside others we soon discover that there are people who have mixed agendas, others who are unkind, others who are passive, others who got out the wrong side of the bed this morning. And those people are us!
Poetry is written to be read aloud - for the words to flow off the tongue and for rhythms to mix together to add meaning. When I wrote this poem, I wanted to share it, but I also wanted it to be experienced, not scanned over quickly - then it would mean nothing.
So I thought about how I could bring the words to life and came up with this short reading (around two minutes) set to some visuals...
When you are in the middle of the tears, you have no idea that as they drip on the ground they are watering new seeds.
As you struggle with the sledgehammer of bad news to the mind, a descending fog and a wondering if God is bigger than the overwhelming Tsunami coming over you, you have no idea that He is already carrying you on His shoulder out of the storm, but it is a long way before the damage is out of sight...
This post has been one of the ones I have left until last. It seemed like a simple enough post to write - the message seems like simple arithmetic: ask + receive = joy.
So why has it been left until last?
Truthfully, there hasn’t been a lot of things that I have been consciously, specifically, asking God for this month....
I wasn’t expecting our last days in the US and our return to Peru to be so dramatic. We had a wonderful albeit super-busy time in the UK and US spending time with so many friends and family and making new friends. We were looking forward to coming back to Peru and beginning to process our trip!
However, the last few days of our time in the US, I ended up in the Emergency Room in Lexington, Kentucky, with horrendous abdominal pains...
