I opened up my lectionary reading, today, and wouldn't you
know it, Isaiah 43 was front and center.
It's only been a matter of weeks since I shared Isaiah 43:2, "When you pass through the waters, I
will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the
fire, you will not be burned; the
flames will not set you ablaze" (NIV). It's not lost on me that the very words that
have been echoing in my mind for some time are also the words on which I will
end these soul care days.
I have some degree of anxiety over what comes
next, but God has carried me this far.
There have been any number of times during my life that God could have
dropped me if God wanted to do so. Since
that hasn't happened yet, I have no reason to believe that today will be the
day. With this thought comes the
reminder that life is cyclical. When the
teacher writes, "What has been will
be again, what has been done will be done again; there
is nothing new under the sun" (Ecclesiastes 1:9, NIV), he's not kidding.
The past few days have allowed me some time
to reflect, and in the process I re-read many things I wrote 3-4 years
ago. There are a variety of reasons for
picking that time of my life, but some things stood out to me. The most important, for today, is that time
really does heal a lot... not everything, that's for sure, but maybe
enough. I wonder how I'll feel about
this season of life 3-4 years from now.
I ran across a quote, this morning, that is
resonating: "We must make the
choices that enable us to fulfill the deepest capacities of our real
selves" - Thomas Merton. In
some ways, I have done this in recent years, and in other ways, I have failed
miserably. I hope I do more of the
former and less of the latter, moving forward, as I now transition from "just"
ordinary days to full on ordinary life...
L.
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