I bet you are humming the theme song to that movie aren't you?
Makes for a nice background melody. Unless you just fast forwarded to the part where the dinosaurs break free and start eating everyone. Eeek! Come back to the serene beginning with me!
Ok, the ending though, I love the ending scene where they all make it safe and sound back in the helicopter, expect maybe not the accountant in the outhouse. He was plucked off the potty and eaten. But the others, they are beat up, bruised, scared to death and grateful to be alive heading home. They seem much more calm then I think I would be but maybe that's Hollywood's happily ever after ending.
What I've come to know is that in the tender years of life it often starts out like that walk in the park and at some point, sometimes without even knowing exactly when, the park morphs into a Jurassic Park type setting.
Feelings get hurt.
Expectations go unmet.
Security may have been breached.
Sometimes we are left questioning, this is not the same guy/gal I know or am married to, is he/she even my same species?
I've read that in the darkness of adversity, we are able to see more clearly the radiance of the face of Jesus.
I love that.
I love that when we are struggling to take the next logical step that if we draw close to him he will draw close to us. That he provides a refuge and fortress in whom we can trust.
What the if?
Did you see that little tiny two letter word there? If you go too fast, it can be missed.
If.
The way I understand it is that we are invited to take that first step to draw close, he commands his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. That they will lift us up in their hands. That the angel of the Lord encamps around us.
If.
I'm learning to follow the instruction that each blessing has in it.
To first be still, commit, trust, delight, wait, and refrain.
Then, it says, then we will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
Sometimes spiritual blessings come wrapped with a bow, but more often than not, through difficult trials.
Often we meet God on our way up but really get to know him on our way down.
What does the if require of me?
To be confident about releasing my fears and embracing healing.
To feed my faith.
To feed it like a gluten free person desires gluten.
Like a Diabetic desires sugar.
Like an addicted texter who looses her phone desires to have it back.
Oh, the thought of that!
For real now, one thing I do know is this; you don't know what you don't know.
Brilliant right?
But it's true. We can't know something we've never learned.
But, when we do learn, we are responsible to let our doing flow from our being.
I'm learning to lasso my thoughts and seek first to find the blessings hidden in difficulties.
To give up perfect in favor of good.
That sometimes it is good to allow tears to wash away the sorrow deep in our souls.
That the disquieting times perhaps might be Jesus saying; I want to keep blessing you so you've got to keep trusting me.
Welcome home.
Stay Awhile.
Journey with me. Let me bless you more than you could ever possibly ask or imagine.
I have extraordinary love for you, do you trust me?
Jesus broke the bread, then gave thanks.
If we are broken, maybe we should give thanks first too.
Seek restoration. Trust he knows our needs and is the master planner.
Invite him to be your DD.
Do you know what that is?
The DD?
The designated driver. That was a new term to me. Who knew!
The DD ensures that you make it home safe.
The DD is the responsible one to be counted on and trusted.
With your life.
