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December 01, 2008
A lot to think about....
So, I've been thinking a great deal in the past weeks. I think it's time I take up some form of extra curricular writing to make sense of it all, though I'm sure this won't be widely read, and that's not even the point anymore....
I've been thinking a lot of the composition of my life. Until recently, I've been living such a hectic life over the course of the last two years that I've lost track of some things very important to me, and I'm trying to figure out where they've gone. I've spent so much time getting caught up in work, service activities, hanging out with groups of people, being so immersed in the lives of those immediately around me that I've lost sight of some very important things... the things that I value the most in life.
I took a vacation, and got to sit and think, and think a lot about things. I rediscovered a deep and abiding relationship with God that I've let the erosion of the busy of my life wear away. I remembered the love of my family and lifelong friends... a set of relationships that I could never have been who I am without. I recalled how happy I am in a place of obedience and devotion to the LORD.
Back in real life, I find that it's so easy for me to continue to forget the things I hold most dear. And I find that without them, I am nothing. Circumstances have begun to chisel away at the exterior of my life to bring me to a place where I have no choice but to surrender. To accept all the ways in which life has gone so wrong, to allow myself to be pruned down to the point of near death so that I can again take root downward in the heart and soul to again grow in season to live more fruitfully than my pride and insecurity has allowed.
Isaiah 37:31 "The surviving remnant of the house of Judah will again take root downward and bear fruit upward."
Galatians 3:6 "just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"
Posted by Angelina at December 1, 2008 04:23 PM