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If someone with boundless patience and creativity were committed to changing you little by little for good, you wouldn’t have to be discouraged about how feeble and filthy you are right now.
“If we let him – for we can prevent him if we choose – he will make the feeblest and filthiest of us into a . . . dazzling, radiant, immortal creature, pulsating all through with such energy and joy and wisdom and love as we cannot now imagine. . . .” C. S. Lewis
“[W]e shall be like Him. . . .” 1 John 3:2
If God were offering you everything you’re thirsty for, it would be a shame to keep looking elsewhere.
“Tell the people this: . . . the Lord gives you shalom.” Numbers 6:23, 26
shalom: completeness; peace; safety; contentment; friendship; soundness
One true glimpse of God’s great heart would melt all our doubts and worries and what-ifs like the fog that they are.
“All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what has now been revealed to me.” Thomas Acquinas, after an encounter with God
““And His face was like the sun shining in all its brilliance. When I saw Him, I fell at His feet as though dead.” Revelations 1:16-17 (John the apostle, encountering the risen Christ)
Here-I-am days aren’t very satisfying. That’s because all the joy is hidden in there-you-are.
Father, please open my eyes today to the joy of being other-focused.
“This is my (joyous) command: love each other.” John 15:17 (words in parentheses added)
The more you try not to worry, the more you spin your wheels. The only way to get traction is to put one particular thing in God’s hands right now (and then keep on leaving it there).
“Do not take [your burden] to Him . . . and then take [it] all back. . . . Leave it with the Lord. . . . Trust and worry cannot go together.” Hannah Whitall Smith
“Entrust your way of living to the Lord. . . .” Psalm 37:5
Changing together happens little by little, day by day, and yes by yes, until gardens are growing where desert used to be.
“The Lord . . . will make [their] deserts like Eden, and [their] wastelands like the garden of the Lord.” Isaiah 51:3
Eden: a place of pleasure and delight
