Walking the Passage: I don't know much... but I know He loves... Truly that might be all I need to Know

Thursday, September 9, 2010

I don't know much... but I know He loves... Truly that might be all I need to Know

There is a sense of awe and reverence before the Lord that is all encompassing. I sit here and I am so humbled by who He truly is as God. There are verses that have captured my heart for years but in these days they burst out on the page dazzling with color and light and beauty.

So many times we read, “I will be their God and they will be my people.” In those words lie His passions…. His heart… through everything… through all of history… His hunger is and always will be for us. Oh GOD… Oh GOD… Oh GOD… I could scream of His goodness… I could shout it from the streets….. HE LOVES US…. OH HOW HE LOVES US……. His passion is for us…. He longs for us to walk with Him… He hungers and yearns as a lover… (He is the LOVER of our souls) He loves us…..

He so truly and completely loves us….. we are what He aches for… we are His sons and His daughters… we are bearers of His image… and in all of that His passion for us knows no bounds… no limits…..

I have been pondering Mary as of late….. her action of breaking the bottle of perfume over the feet of Jesus and washing them with her hair and her tears has been filling my heart and mind. A life so fundamentally changed…. So incredibly altered from the course that it had been set on… So desperate to express gratitude she stepped into extravagance…… But He was and is worth it… worth it all

As I drove home this evening from being out many thoughts made their way through my heart and mind…. New beginnings… new steps… that mirror older ones once taken except now maybe walked with a limp ;) But as I drove home this realization of who I have become within the wilderness… who is this girl emerging from the terrains just walked….. A peace and settledness filled my soul… and as I thought about who I am now… I realized I have made a decision in the depths of my being to not be other than ….. I have walked in soulish things… walked in things that were the exact opposite of the grace and light of my Lord… why would I want to touch those things ever again? Why would I want to walk in anything other?

So in His shadow I walk, stand, sit, run, play….. and under His wing I soar, fly, jump, shout, scream… and leaning.. well leaning.. I love and in leaning I am protected… and in leaning I realize I truly don’t have to carry anything alone ever again… why would I want to walk or lean in anything other…. the things of this world continue to grow extremely dim in the light of all He is….

For His love carries a strength and life to it that beckons come be extravagant with me… I am loved extravagantly … may I leap into loving in that same way…. Extravagant love … just sounds fun…. It will carry me Home… one day…. It will be all we know and the memory of anything other will be a dim recollection… may all of that become dim even now….. extravagant love just sounds fun….. that is where you will find me….. whatever it looks like I do not know.. but I know I will be there with Him and that that is all I need to know….

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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.