It draws to an end, and I am saddened. But, He reminds that nothing invested into Him will ever really come to an end, for He is eternal, entirely eternal. Every prayer offered, every head bowed in praise, the hand that raises in adoration, the gift offered to the Giver, and every morsel that we go without will truly stand the test of time.
And tomorrow we break fast and we break bread but we will NEVER have to break communion, for He is eternal.
As we lay aside the first fruits of the year as a sacrifice and an offering to Him we look ahead to the new three that have been sorely wounded, we wonder and pray of the challenges that lay ahead on our and their path as we move toward healing and restoration. I chuckle at the daunting task of educating nine, three who are without language; I chuckle aloud for there is nothing else to do. We gawk at the momentous challenge of raising $50,000 to bring them home, to call them our own. We take time to look at the year past and remember all that He has done and all that He still will do in our sweet girls' lives. And with all of this He speaks, but not of this.
No, He speaks of something new, He weaves it through this time set apart to fast and pray and He takes my breath away. He steals my breath with the severity and the gentle simplicity of this new thing that He stirs.
He winds it tight through teachings, prayers, messages and scriptures and He wraps this thread of simplicity, this thread of longing through my soul and deep into my spirit. He winds and He woos and the deep calls unto the deep and He invites me to dive deeper, to live deeper. And I dive again and again into the living waters and under the weight of the world and the deathly sin, Something calls me deeper and I drive stroke after stroke hard into the waters and I gasp and grasp for this Something.
I call to Him in these waters of life and I cry out for more, more and all of Your Something and His whisper finds me and He simply says ~
Simplify.
And I see her face, my nameless missionary and she and I are tangled in the waters and we both cry out for this Something, this Life of more. And I know, she and I are one, one body of Christ and our eternities are intertwined by this God that we serve.
I have cried for more of this Something and He has simply answered with ~ simplify and He binds her and I together in the answer to my prayer that can and will be become the answer to her prayer.
He is teaching, He is speaking and I will not be moved until I find all of this Something and I will gladly lay aside all of this world that is entirely nothing.
Simplify.
I race on and yet somehow, I will not be moved.
And tomorrow we break fast and we break bread but we will NEVER have to break communion, for He is eternal.
As we lay aside the first fruits of the year as a sacrifice and an offering to Him we look ahead to the new three that have been sorely wounded, we wonder and pray of the challenges that lay ahead on our and their path as we move toward healing and restoration. I chuckle at the daunting task of educating nine, three who are without language; I chuckle aloud for there is nothing else to do. We gawk at the momentous challenge of raising $50,000 to bring them home, to call them our own. We take time to look at the year past and remember all that He has done and all that He still will do in our sweet girls' lives. And with all of this He speaks, but not of this.
No, He speaks of something new, He weaves it through this time set apart to fast and pray and He takes my breath away. He steals my breath with the severity and the gentle simplicity of this new thing that He stirs.
He winds it tight through teachings, prayers, messages and scriptures and He wraps this thread of simplicity, this thread of longing through my soul and deep into my spirit. He winds and He woos and the deep calls unto the deep and He invites me to dive deeper, to live deeper. And I dive again and again into the living waters and under the weight of the world and the deathly sin, Something calls me deeper and I drive stroke after stroke hard into the waters and I gasp and grasp for this Something.
I call to Him in these waters of life and I cry out for more, more and all of Your Something and His whisper finds me and He simply says ~
Simplify.
And I see her face, my nameless missionary and she and I are tangled in the waters and we both cry out for this Something, this Life of more. And I know, she and I are one, one body of Christ and our eternities are intertwined by this God that we serve.
I have cried for more of this Something and He has simply answered with ~ simplify and He binds her and I together in the answer to my prayer that can and will be become the answer to her prayer.
He is teaching, He is speaking and I will not be moved until I find all of this Something and I will gladly lay aside all of this world that is entirely nothing.
Simplify.
I race on and yet somehow, I will not be moved.
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