Scripture
“The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy but I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full” NIV
Prayer
God, How Do I Abide in Your Love?
Dwelling in love as a place
Will a feeling rise
Waiting
Am I to wait
Are you commanding me to feel loved
In the way you command me to trust in you
God, I met you when I was four. I rejected you even though you flooded me with love and raised my spirit up to life because I thought your love was temporary. How can I go back? You said I can always call on you and you’ll be there, but how do I ask you to love me, still? How do I look at our relationship with joy?
God, you smiled on me. And now I’m grieving because I left. Do you love me that much, still? I’m embarrassed for leaving. I’m intimidated by your love you showed me, it was so much. It changed me. It will change me, again, won’t it?
I’m too scared, simply, to live a life based on the memory relived with fondness, nostalgic about an idea of being loved that’s so steeped in disappointment that I have only have a faint hope in the possibility of your love for other people. My body would continue, so long as I continued to accepted food. But my eyes won’t want to open, weighted down by deep fatigue.
Instead, let your love for me shape my reality.
Scripture
“So, remove grief and anger from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting”
Thoughts
This makes me think of whole-body healing because it involves healing inside from hurts which cause grief and anger.
I think sometimes wise advice can sound impossible.
But I take heart in Christ because he is Salvation; a way-maker even when otherwise I am without a way through the wilderness. And that makes joy break out in my heart even before I see the way emerge in light before my path. And every time I remember his accomplishments, I am rested. I dance inside from the rejoicing that’s there from his joy.
Making Sangria 