Today I was chatting with Wes as we drove to an appointment. I was telling her that I knew that the Lord was asking me to "Embrace" my current situation. I could feel my "hackles" rise even as I said it.
The Lord showed me that I was living out His call on my life with the emergency break on. I remember,years ago, my dad warning me about that as I first started driving. "Take your foot completely off of the break Marnie when you are moving forward"
Have you ever had your emergency break "in gear" and tried to drive? Do you remember the resistance and or perhaps the grinding noise that kept you from moving forward with ease?
Well the Lord is patient and slow to anger. He loves me and wants me to experience His best ..all that He has for me...TODAY.
Father, Thank You for Your Kindness and Your Grace and Mercy.
You are ever faithful to show me what I need to see.
I see.
Please help me to understand. I call out to you for what I need to truly embrace the place that You have me in. I want to surrender, to be pliable and flexible in Your grip.
Help me Lord....I truly want what You want...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7x2IpLSfqp8
Stop on and very timely. Donna
ReplyDeleteMarnie, a friend sent me your writing and I enjoyed it and would like to receive your musings.
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Hi Marnie
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing! What comes to mind for me was what the Lord told me years ago, when I first moved here. He told me to give him my agenda! I did. It wasn't easy but I was in His Will and that's the best place to be even when times are hard. And I've seen the fruit and the blessings and love from Him and love from Him through others that sometimes takes my breath away!!!
Love, Joan
Hi Marnie,
ReplyDeleteThank you for being faithful. I can only imagine the place you are in but you are not alone in our small church we have 5 or six families caring for elderly parents in various stages of need. I see the love they have for their parent but also the frustration, concern, weariness and perplexity over a situation that just seems to linger on for them.
Bless you Marnie as you struggle with where the Lord has placed you. We heard a sermon this week about running the race to get the prize. I
ReplyDeletepray for your race the discipline and the training, the hurts and the agony it takes to run this race of life. Blessings Laurice
Very good image, and one of my favorite hymns! He wants all of us. One of the things I told myself back in the fall with homeschooling is that I want to leave it all out on the carpet (idiom that I use to say hold nothing back) everyday. I am really tired at the end of most days, but content.
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