"Light" reading
This Article spoke volumes to me today. I have fortunately never been exactly there, but sometimes I've walked dangerously close to the edge of it. The author's words are raw and real and not sugar-coated and it's why I appreciate this "Webzine" so much. Because underneath it all, the thing that matters, the truth, always points us back to the sovereignty of Christ.
His kamikaze is my crow!
These past couple of months have been full of ups and downs with disappointments, triumphs, lessons learned, and even times of "waking up". It seems to have all really sped up after my rendezvous with my crow (and yes, I will keep writing about it for a very long time to come so don't get sick of it just yet). That incident happened during a very "high" point and so I couldn't understand it the way that I was supposed to until a week later when I realized that I had no capacity to surrender myself to God the way that bird had done to me, and then bang! More tests came, and disappointments, and struggles of the heart, and things to grieve . . .
Through everything the image of that helpless/surrendered crow has stuck, and in every little after-shock I feel God's peace a bit out of reach until I realize He is always asking me "Do you trust me?"
Sometimes I answer "yes" because it's ingrained in me to do so. Other times, I trust Him because it's all I have, or because He the ONLY one I can bear to trust at that moment . . . and you know, He hands me that peace every time no matter the motives behind my answer. It doesn't make Him easier to understand, but it makes Him trustworthy.
I hope this article is an encouragement to you if you are walking out a similar journey.
God's will be done! Trust in Him.
