There has been a lot going on lately. Criticism. Changes in staffing. Mixed signals. Failures in leadership. Untimely equipment failures. Writer’s block. Sickness. Uncertainties. Overwhelming noise. Overwhelming silence. Great needs. Deep needs.
God is doing a mighty work among us.
It’s the little things; they add up so quickly. And then big things come and overwhelm our minds, our emotions, our bodies.
God is doing a mighty work among us.
Our church community, in the last two months, has had no less than fifteen families lose immediate family members. Parents. Grandparents. Daughters. Sons. It affected me so strongly, so unexpectedly that I wrote a lament for our church family. I’ve never written a lament.
God is doing a mighty work among us.
In her wisdom, a good friend recently wrote this refrain and we would do well to keep it in mind. The challenges always come, and it can seem so cliche to talk of persecution, of some mysterious negative force that moves against us. Only children think that when things go wrong it must be the fault of another. Right?
God is doing a mighty work among us.
We must not see demons behind every door; sometimes things just happen in our own negligence or our own mistakes. But we mustn’t blind ourselves to those that are present, either.
God is doing a mighty work among us.
The truth of the matter is that we cannot redeem the world. We cannot make it all better, we cannot re-create, we cannot fully heal, we cannot fully restore.
But.
God is doing a mighty work among us.
It’s not up to us. But it includes us.
God is doing a mighty work among us.
It’s wholly other, it’s beautiful, it’s majestic. But it’s slow.
God is doing a mighty work among us.
Christ has died. Christ is Risen. Christ will come again.
God is doing a mighty work among us.
God is doing a mighty work among us.
God is doing a mighty work among us.
thank you for speaking truth over us. sometimes the darkest valleys are the ones that don’t “make sense”. we try to “figure them out”. i saw this quote yesterday that i thought was beautiful and was good for me as i walk through my valley…
“The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible.” Corrie Ten Boom
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10.27.12 at 5:16 pm
Perfect. Thanks Tabatha 🙂
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