Delighting in the Divine
Yes to freedom, yes to play and yes to celebrating the moment!
Delighting in the Divine
Yes to freedom, yes to play and yes to celebrating the moment!
Dear suffering one,
Oh, the privilege that God has lavished upon you to enter into His heart.
To feel deeply of His pain, to share more wholly in His distress – the breakdown of His creation – to understand part of the depth of God – to know a side of Him that many do not wish or allow themselves to experience.
Last year, when I was nearing the end of my pregnancy with Kaleb, a C-section looked likely. He was breech and there is only one doctor I know here in Peru who would even consider a breech birth under certain conditions. When I had visited her when I was pregnant with Joel, our second child, we hadn’t seen eye to eye. But, feeling the leading of the Holy Spirit, I returned to see her 8 months pregnant, and this time we really connected. (The first time I had been to see her, I had been on the defensive and she had responded likewise to my lack of trust.)
I felt at ease with the doctor and when I went into labour, she did all she could to help me have a natural breech birth, but when Kaleb failed to descend, she felt that there was a reason why, and we should consider transferring to the hospital for a C-section...
Journaling has become one of the main parts of my quiet times over the last month. I had so many things I was seeking God about that I wanted to allow the time for Him to speak to me. However, one of the main things He has said to me is to just lie on his chest and listen to his heartbea.
I am a doer. I am a disciplined doer and I don’t just do things for the sake of it (having children and limited time has ensured that!) but even in my quiet times, I find myself trying to achieve something...
Recently I have realised that I do not take enough time to ask God for His opinion.
I spend more time in prayer today than I ever have done, but when it comes to seeking God for specific answers to specific questions,
I realize one of the reasons I don’t know God’s will is because I haven’t taken the time to ask...
As I am growing in my relationship with God, I am learning how to discern His leading more and more. And as I do, I keep asking, how can I go even deeper? How can I know what He wants me to do all the time and not just guess?...
The most helpful and inspiring workshop I ever went to at University was a voluntary one.
Only 6 or so students turned up, all seeking the answer to the same question: How can we get top marks in our essays with this teacher? (From what I remember the class was on French existentialism!)
I think we all expected to be pointed to key academic texts we could discover the answers to the varied essay questions in, or to be given a secret or two by the teacher. But as far as I recall, there was none of that...
