Sometimes in the
morning,
I stumble across a
Scripture,
a Facebook quote,
a
Pinterest post,
and I'm filled with a
nugget of wisdom,
a moment of inspiration, a
smile.
“We are all
citizens of heaven.” Phil 3
Stop thinking low earth
thoughts.
"There
is a crack in everything,
it's how the light gets
in." Leonard Cohen
Cracks can be
beautiful.
“It’s always
disappointing when
a liar’s pants don’t
actually catch on fire.”
Sometimes you just need to smile.
"There is a crack in
everything,
it's how the light gets
in."
But that is one viewpoint,
the one I can see in the morning
when my
mind is thinking clearly.
The other is that
the thing is broken.
When we are at our most vulnerable,
often in the middle of our everyday life,
we are very aware of the
crack—
the thing that feels wrong.
We used to have what seemed this
perfectly good “thing,” and now it is broken.
It takes time to recover when
things break
and get to the point
where we can find
something good about whatever is broken.
So, the Lord graciously
gives us
snippets of wisdom along the way.
“Don't dwell on earthly things.
As a citizen of heaven,
can you change how you see this?
Thinking from My
perspective is better.”
So, I need to remember to
ask “how?”
How does Your light want
to come through
the broken things I find myself facing?
Even the broken places of my own life?
I am fighting for Your
truth to come through
because everything in me
wants to say
that cracked vessels sink
and
I feel very much like a
citizen of earth today.
He reminds me that His
goodness
and unfailing love pursue me every day
and
that He has a banqueting table
set up in the midst of my
enemies.
I cling to those words like life preservers
and declare them to be Truth.
The lies of my enemy lose
some power.
And I imagine that their little
pants
perhaps have just caught on fire.
Thank you, Pinterest.
I am beginning to see that, for me,
"not knowing" is a crack
that is letting light in.
And despite what we might
have been told...
sometimes "I don't know"
IS the answer.
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