“Am I in a situation not of my own choosing?”
This question was posed in yesterday’s Lectio on Jeremiah
29:1, 4-7.
“Am I resentful? What if God wants me here?”
This is not the same post as yesterday’s, when I was filled
with such a sense of serenity and peace, strong to entrust God with the details
of this hard situation.
Tonight I’m praying through a tough day, when the detail of
life as Mom is experiencing it now was just hard. When confusion led to temper
flares, and my patience was tested and faltered.
Then I came back and read through the verses a dear friend
gave me this morning, from Isaiah 55:8-9:
‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your
ways my ways,’ declares the Lord. ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth, so
are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.’
Boy, rarely have those words rung so true!
But then comes the promise in verse 12:
‘For you shall go out in joy, and be led back in peace; the
mountains and the hills before you shall burst into song, and all the trees of
the field shall clap their hands.’
Roll on that blessed day. Lead on, Lord Jesus.
And in the meantime, Lord, equip Mom, and equip me, to
accept the situation you allow to continue. May we both ‘have power to grasp
how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this
love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all
the fullness of God.’ Ephesians 3:18-21
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