On Don't you love those ideas you get in the shower?

Hopefully most of you already know this. I guess I didn't because when the thought occurred to me it was a major revelation. Here goes: There has never been a short epic. Otherwise it wouldn't be an epic. Epics also take place over lots and lots of time, sometimes years. My life's journey in Christ is nowhere near to being over. There is still adventure to be sought out, battles to be won, and lots lots more learning and growing to do. I'm entangled in an epic, not a short story. I'm really not sure why I'd been thinking that I was almost done. Oh no, we're still in the very beginning pages. God has introduced Himself as the main character and now there's a lot of action that will be taking place.

On Where have all the cookies gone?

Do you remember those commercials?? "Where have all the cookies gone? Into Hershey's Cookies and Cream!" Well those candy bars are very good and here's just one of those moments where my brain works really funny. With all these people going away...either moving because they don't really have a choice or moving because they feel they're being called somewhere else...I've been kind of feeling like: hey, where have all the awesome people gone? Okay so in the commercial, it's all these empty cookie jars with people looking into them with looks of shock on their faces. Then, it reveals that all the cookies went to go make these amazing candy bars. They "took away" something good from people to make something else that's really really cool. So, what if God's plan for me, for my friends, for the world, is like a Cookies and Cream candy bar? He has a bigger, better plan that I can't understand and He's sending all these people to different places to achieve His will. In essence, "taking" them away from me to create the bigger picture, the candy bar. I really don't know, but I think it's something like that. Maybe while I'm like, "Hey, I really miss those cookies," God is saying, "Wow! Look at this radical candy bar I'm making!"

On tree, lake, brook

"Grow upward as trees, and seek My face. Dwell deep, as the lake, and know My fullness and quiet. And move ever, always, determinedly onward as the brook does; and keep the outflow of your life ever in motion...So the trees would say to you, Speak. Speak to Me, speak of Me--for I am always speaking. And the lake would say to you, Be still. Be still before Me in communion, and be still at times even in the company of others, so you may enjoy the lesson of the lake in mutual fellowship. And Move. Find the channel of creativity within your soul. I have made no one without it. Some have choked it with indifference, others have despised it in rebellion; others have ignored it in foolishness; others have twisted it in bitterness. But I stand ready to come to the assistance of any man or woman who sincerely endeavors to find this channel, to remove debris, to repair damage or straighten the course, and most of all to enter the flow. It is the flow of divine life." --from Come Away My Beloved

I really don't think that there's much I can add to that. Look up and seek Him. Seek His face. That was my devotional this morning and it certainly smacked me in my face. Come Away My Beloved is one of the most amazing books I've ever read. I read a little every morning and it can be pretty overwhelming. Like this morning, "speak to me...be still...move" just the encouragement and at the same time rebuking motivation I've been in need of this summer. I could be accused of having not only a lazy body this season, but also a lazy heart. I think at times we all need to reawaken and relearn how to use our hearts. The passage above was one that helped me refocus so I just thought I'd share.

I'm so glad I've started writing again!!! It's funny how sometimes there's been a wall up and you never even knew it was there until something knocks it down.