Finding the More

I find the process of writing these blogs quite interesting.  Since I started writing them, I would hear a phrase or be reminded of something someone said and then I would think “this is a great topic or title for a blog”.  I would start a document, add a title and proceed to jot down some ideas, then park it in the "Drafts" folder.  Do you know that the majority of those blogs don’t get written or published?  Seems they are not on the Lord’s agenda and just a desire from my own soul.   And then there is this one.  It is like the Lord is nudging me in this direction and I don't want to go there.  I don’t want people to get upset with me, yet here I am typing away. Have you ever heard people complain and say they feel weak and tired?  To which someone else would respond and say “you need to listen to your body”.  Do you know that a comment like that is not in the Bible?  If we go a bit deeper, have you ever wondered who the “you’ is ...

Have you ever had something happen to you that was so devastating that you thought you would not survive?  Something that came out of nowhere and can fall under the title “I never thought anything like that would ever, ever happen to me?”   When disaster like that strikes it can have the ability to wipe out your dreams, years of educational achievements and work experience in one single moment.  Even basic things like tying shoelaces and sitting up straight can be something that needs to be relearned.   How others see you, as well as the value that the world puts on you, can plummet unexpectedly like the temperature when you thought Spring was finally here and so you had your dog’s winter fur coat shaved off.. (need I say more..?) I am sure by now you are wondering where I am going with all this.  Hang in there, we are getting to the good part! I have firsthand experience of the things mentioned.  I found myself in such a situation years ago - the...

My dad was the youngest of three boys and I remember growing up that when my grandma would speak about him or call him, she would sometimes go through the older boy’s names first before getting to his name.  It also happened to me and my sister.  We had quite a few cousins, and the grandmas would do that to us too, reciting the list of names out loud before getting to the name of the child in question.  This is a memory that we still laugh about today. If God was human - and I am so glad He is not - imagine the headache He would have had if he had to blitz down the list of names of all His children in order to call a specific one.  Expanding on that, I find myself fortunate that my name is near the beginning of the alphabet and so if He would have approached it in alphabetical order, I would have stood some chance.  If He did it by age though starting at the oldest, I would find myself somewhere in the middle which might have proved to be slightly problematic....

I didn’t think I was going to write anything this week as nothing came and so I didn’t want to force it.  But, as I was lying awake early morning focusing on the Lord and meditating on His goodness, I realized that just like a diamond reflecting the light showing off the many facets, so the Lord has many facets to who He is and how much He loves us.  Just when you think you have an idea of who He is, He shows you something more.  My words are somehow too ordinary to express what I am seeing.  I also realize that even though our ability is limited to comprehend a fraction of His person, He still wants to be known by us.   You hear people say they want to do this, or they want to do that for the Lord, and I sometimes wonder if they realize that everything they have and all they can do - their talents, intellect, abilities - are all from His hand.  We cannot breathe or even move without Him helping us.  With everything He gave us we can decide if we...