Thank you, Father, for blessing me with a new travel coffee cup to replace my green one that I somehow misplaced. Thank you that that is a metaphor with what you do in my life!
I get so bummed about losing stuff in my life; be it a loved one, a season that was so good in my life, things I am comfortable with and like the routine of... and yet, you faithfully show me that in loss there is something to be attained.
Losing my mother-in-law recently, grieving in her passing, brought my husband and I closer, with each other and with our family and friends.
Though my immediate family is so far from me geographically, my life is enriched as I open up to my friends, those around me and to my church people.
Having children and being a stay-at-home-mom made me miss the work I used to do everyday with Jake in staffing schools and going on outreaches. Yet, I am blown away by the continual training of my heart and responses to my imperfect, precious and fragile children. My little "Joy" and "Grace." (Kiera Joy and Julianna Rose)
You take the things in our lives that cause heartache and sorrow and you are able to create such beautiful and new experiences and lessons for us to learn. Most of all, you work your transforming power in our hearts and teach us about our need for love and our need to love.
Papa, you are the greatest joy to me!! I love you with all of my heart! Keep showing me how much you love and desire me and I will keep praising you in painful times and in happy times. You are the greatest desire of my heart and life. May my children and my children's children see you in the great and private moments of their lives. In times when you heal someone of cancer and in times when you provide for the smallest and most intimate of their needs, like a replacement travel coffee cup or a hand of a friend that gives theirs a squeeze.
Thank you for how perfect Your love is.
So GOOD. So beautiful.... I love our perfect God, our perfect Father.
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I absolutely love this, Michelle. Keep writing your beautiful writing... keep telling us about the Father and His great and glorious and careful and tender love. And how His love is being perfected within you.
Thank you. <3
Man, I get so wrecked when I read this. Praise and thanks are so powerful and perspective-changing! Once again, so glad you read this and that you were uplifted by it and thanks for your words, Nae! love you and keep writing ,too!
ReplyDeleteI like how you described his love as "careful." What a great God who takes great care with us.
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