I think I’ve lost something.
And I’m working hard to find it. Well, my Father is helping me find it again.
I have been known to stay up late, too late–particularly when I am determined to complete a project I just want to get done.
Imagine a project to which God invites you to partner with Him.
It is beautiful. It is wild. It is beyond what you could ever imagine dreaming for yourself, on your own. When God invites us to go on an adventure with Him, our heart awakens to possibility. We are full of passion. We are full of energy. We are full of hope and joy. Maybe.
Despite intimidation and trepidation. Despite nervousness about the unknown.
Come on. I know you can relate.
We want to say yes to the invitation God has for us because it makes perfect sense to our heart.
The dream taps into our passions, the things we love to do. The dream stretches us, makes us nervous and excited all at once. It feels way too big to ever accomplish, but it makes sense to us, too.
So, with Him, we push into the wild. We say yes to the adventure He has designed for us since before we were born. Perfect.
There is just one problem. . . . a struggle within us . . . something about time.
I know this struggle personally.
It is difficult not to take the gift God gives us, in all its beauty, and turn it upside down. We can forget God’s invitation exists only in partnership. With Him. The invitation–the dream–is not the dream He has for us when we ignore His role in it and try to make the dream happen without Him, all on our own.
All fun and zeal for life slip away when we are separated from the Father. We rob ourselves when we take something He has given us (and He is the giver of everything good) and make ourselves the center of it all, instead of seeking alignment with Him.
It is so easy to slip away from Him when we charge ahead, out of step with Him, wanting to have control.
I have little control of anything–and sometimes, instead of feeling relief and peace in the recognition of that truth, and deciding to let my Father gently guide me…everything in me screams against that reality.
When I am not in alignment with Him, it isn’t pretty. I look to myself to “get things done” rather than trust Him. I look to myself for strength rather than choose to depend on Him. Consequentially, I miss out on His plan, His timing. My fierce fight for control hurts my heart, damages relationships, breaks trust with those I love. In this place of darkness, I feel like I am in a constant battle with time.
Madeleine L’Engle, author of children’s books, such as A Wrinkle In Time, wrote a beautiful book called Walking on Water, Reflections on Faith and Art, which reveals to me a truth about time.
Since time was created, had a beginning, and will have an end, it is a creature with whom we can have understandings and misunderstandings. All artists know days [and we are all artists, all creators here, in partnership with our Father] when time collaborates with them and they can do more than they can do in one day. There are other days when they are equally diligent, and yet get little or nothing accomplished.
Time is to be treasured and worked with, never ignored. As the astrophysicists understand time now, it is not like a river, flowing in one direction, but more like a tree, with great branches and smaller limbs and twigs which may make it possible for us to move from one branch to another, as did Jesus and Moses and Elijah, as did St. Andrew and St. Francis when they talked with each other in that light of love which transcends all restrictions of time.
Proverbs 29:18 AMP
“Where there is no vision [no redemptive revelation of God], the people perish;
but he who keeps the law [of God, which includes that of man]—blessed (happy, fortunate, and enviable) is he.”
Want to join in with me?
Father, we want to be linked with You, yoked with You, in alignment with You, with Your timing, Your plan, Your vision for us. Recognizing a gift from You and making it our own is not accepting the gift. Help us to stay true to You and to be patient. We so need help being patient. We want to wait for You, God, pursue You, not run ahead (slip behind and away from You) and miss You. We trust Your timing, Father, not our own. Chronological time, the seconds passing steadily by on a clock, matter only in that we have choices to make about how we regard our time. Let us not waste time, Father. Alignment with You is Real time, true time, life time.
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Next Week’s Verse
who pardons sin and forgives the transgression
of the remnant of his inheritance?
You do not stay angry forever
but delight to show mercy.
