Posted on 01/04/2006 9:50:57 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
Can I feel it? Jeepers, hosepipe, not just Ozzie is exhorting us to soar - but you, too. Thank you for the beautiful meditation and praise!
It is nice to see your poetic post here, KnittingAC, and to figure that you are feeling better...? I checked out your blog this morning...well done! I've kept you in prayer daily, dear one. Keep overcoming!
I often pray this way in my petitions for loved ones, for everything has an end except God Himself, His Kingdom, the Word and Spirit (as Scripture attests repeatedly). Pride comes to an end, man's strength fails, props and crutches and crumbling walls fall down and every mask and pretension falls away. My own testimony is that it was in the coming to the end of every resource with which I had tried to sustain my shaky existence and worldly "peace", in finding myself at the utter end of human wisdom and human strength and human props, failed methods all, that I was finally willing to look up, to look outside myself. I thank God that I came to the end of all my ways at the age of 29, and so was willing to pray with very little and finally humbled faith to Him Who Has No End.
And so I pray earnestly for those I love: that this same event will take place in thier lives, for all my neighbors and coworkers and friends and family and everyone I have ever witnessed to, that they also will reach the End of Ending Things before the End of All Things (personal or universal) comes. Only then, it seems, can our rebellious hearts reach out to the Unending.
C.S. Lewis made note of the grace of God in this: that He will accept us even when (and just when!) we come having already tried every other way, as though God were our last resort. What wondrous Love is this?!
What wonderous love indeed! I join in your intercessory prayer!
Indeed, like a parent.. a father..
There is a time for teaching personally directly and time for not teaching directly.. but waiting for when the time is right.. An observant parent is always watching for those times.. There is a time to teach and time to observe and listen.. Wisdom is knowing the difference.. Lessons taught in this way will be learned for a lifetime.. even beyond..
Spoken like a loving father, hosepipe! Thank you for your insights!
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