A Huge Awakening
Mike and I felt like 2006 would be a huge year for us in many ways. I can say it feels like an awakening for me. Little things like the fact that I am actually sorting the laundry again instead of desperately throwing everything into the washer at once is… well…. HUGE. So many things have been going at lightening fast speed with us ever since our little trip to Gainesville a few weeks ago. Our pilgrimage to Brown house to be with our extended family was another shift for me as a person.
The past 5 years have been a time of waiting. Our family has been growing, our thinking has been stretched, our faith practice has been detoxing and all of our dreams seemed to vanish into the thin air of everyday life. I started to feel the shift when I posted what seemed to be a silly little post about Hudson going down the slide by himself. But it was the day I felt the winds shift in my everyday life with young children. Good friends have told us that it got easier as our children grew and I knew that would be true, but I just didn’t know when.
Relationship is the word of this season. Pursue it at all costs. Good has been the enemy of best for too long.(Thanks Kim and John for that quote.) I am killing the good for the hope of the best in terms of deeper relationship with those around me. I can say, I feel huge things afoot. It is like the residents of Narnia who would whisper about Aslan being around with joy and hope and fear in their voice. For me the ice is melting, green life is growing and Aslan is afoot. He is not safe, but he is good and I am excitedly terrified to watch him do his work.
The past 5 years have been a time of waiting. Our family has been growing, our thinking has been stretched, our faith practice has been detoxing and all of our dreams seemed to vanish into the thin air of everyday life. I started to feel the shift when I posted what seemed to be a silly little post about Hudson going down the slide by himself. But it was the day I felt the winds shift in my everyday life with young children. Good friends have told us that it got easier as our children grew and I knew that would be true, but I just didn’t know when.
Relationship is the word of this season. Pursue it at all costs. Good has been the enemy of best for too long.(Thanks Kim and John for that quote.) I am killing the good for the hope of the best in terms of deeper relationship with those around me. I can say, I feel huge things afoot. It is like the residents of Narnia who would whisper about Aslan being around with joy and hope and fear in their voice. For me the ice is melting, green life is growing and Aslan is afoot. He is not safe, but he is good and I am excitedly terrified to watch him do his work.
posted by Amber at 8:43 AM
1 Comments:
I've recently started this blogging thing, and I am touched by what you just wrote. I am waiting too and it is difficult. Sometimes, I do not even know what I am waiting for, but waiting. I don't know if this is where you are at, but it is like waiting for God to move or speak. At times it is agony.
Becky
I found this in one of my readings. Maybe it will speak to you as it did to me.
"I believe in the sun even though it does not shine. I believe in love even when it isn't shown. I believe in God even when he doesn't speak."
Written by a concentration camp prisoner.
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