Who does this? I ask because it seems I should, I certainly can aspire to be this person but my shortcoming in this endeavor is huge. I am not this person. I start and stop...become unconscious of the beauty around me and feel a hunger for something more. I forget to watch the sun quietly repeat its daily circle above my head. I am not at all confident that I am a magnificent person.
Today I attended church for the first time in too long...I picked a church from my smart phone directory of churches close by. I intended to find a large enough place to be lost in the crowd and quietly re-acquaint myself with organized worship. I found a pretty little Lutheran church just a mile away...it was pretty inside..something you would find in a small New England town, pine beams and small stained glass windows. And I was one of maybe 20 people in the church that probably only seats 100. I could smell the age of the building, not a bad smell but one of a building left empty for more hours than it is full. We sang many older hymns with only an organ and I sang, something I often do not do in the larger churches. The scripture as always fit the day Isaiah 55; 1-5.....
1 “Come, all you who are thirsty,
come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost. 2 Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare. 3 Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. I will make an everlasting covenant with you, my faithful love promised to David. 4 See, I have made him a witness to the peoples, a ruler and commander of the peoples. 5 Surely you will summon nations you know not, and nations you do not know will come running to you, because of the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, for he has endowed you with splendor.”It is interesting what happens when you stop and listen. When you let the call of your heart pull you. I found myself in prayer after communion with tears in my eyes...It was not sadness it was grace. I am still not sure I believe I am magnificent but I believe I am a daughter of God and he loves me, that is magnificent. Enough for today!
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I was just surfing the different blogs and came across yours! Great Post from the heart = ) I think we really all feel that hunger for more and your post reminded me of something I wrote too...so i just wanted to share!
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