Walking the Passage: A Father's Need

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

A Father's Need

The phone rang. Utter shock and disbelief ran through my body as I looked to see who it was. When I saw the name on the screen I tried to choke back sobs as I picked it up. There are no words to express what those few seconds were all about for me. Trying to compose myself to say hello only broke down into the sobs that I had tried so hard to keep back. I kept trying to compose myself……. Words were tumbling out of my mouth trying to explain what was happening. All I could think of was my poor friend who had placed a phone call only to have a crazy person on the other end.

Things in life had caught up with me and I had been sitting at my desk thinking there was no one to talk to …… no one I could just pour out my heart to that would understand all that was there and be able to actually help. In my mind I couldn’t think through whom at that point in the day I could call. Within that scene the phone rang and as I looked at the name…… the sobs came…. Because but of course she would be the one who at that moment would call……..

I had been sitting alone at my desk looking to the Heavens hoping that God was seeing me… hoping that He was hearing my heart and upon that scene a call came that helped me pour out my heart and express myself and my thoughts.

This morning the deep belief in me arose in light of this scene and truly brought back to remembrance that we are the Body of Christ. He needs us to receive those thoughts and messages about each other so that we can step in and be His hands, His voice, His heart to those around us……

All I can say is that there aren’t the words of gratitude to express that my friend who had thought of me placed that phone call in that moment…. Because the power of that moment lay not only in the friendship but in the fact that in that moment God was saying you are not alone…. I do see you and I do hear you….

May we act more purposefully on the things we think and feel throughout the day…. For we never know when that nudging… that gentle prodding… is a Father saying I need you…..

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One of my Favorite Narnian Quotes...

“One word, Ma’am,” he said, coming back from the fire; limping because of the pain. “One word. All you’ve been saying is quite right, I shouldn’t wonder. I’m a chap who always liked to know the worst and then put the best face I can on it. So I won’t deny any of what you said, even so. Suppose we have only dreamed, or made up, all those things – trees and grass and sun and moon and stars and Aslan himself. Suppose we have. Then all I can say is that, in that case, the made-up things seem a good deal more important than the real ones. Suppose this black pit of a kingdom of yours is the only world. Well, it strikes me as a pretty poor one. And that’s a funny thing, when you come to think of it. We’re just babies making up a game, if you’re right. But four babies playing a game can make a play-world that makes you real world hollow. That’s why I’m going to stand by the play-world. I’m on Aslan’s side even if there isn’t any Narnia. So, thanking you kindly for our supper, if these two gentlemen and the young lady are ready, we’re leaving your court at once and setting out in the dark to spend our lives looking for the Overland.

A Brilliant Quote from Marianne Williamson

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,

but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small does not serve the world.

There is nothing enlightening about shrinking

so that others won't feel unsure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It is not just in some of us; it is in every one.

As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.