It’s So…Daily

II Corinthians 12:9

Hello All ~
Life is so...daily, isn’t it? I mean, just about the time you get all the laundry done, it’s time to mop the floor. When the floor is done the bushes need trimming. After the bushes are done, you discover there’s no food in the house so it’s a trip to the grocery store. (Why do I hate the grocery store so much? Anybody else?) You get the groceries put away just in time to iron that shirt. Then before you know it, the laundry basket is full again! And that’s just an example of homecare duties; it says nothing to all the other “hats” we wear.
Those burdens all sounds so trivial compared to the recent conversation I had with one of my dearest friends in world. She’s facing surgery, intense radiation and six weeks of chemotherapy. She will undoubtedly loose all her hair...again. Yes, she’s been through this before. But my friend has decided to depend on God. She’s been focused on a principle Corrie Ten Boom learned when she was a little girl.

As Corrie prepared to take a train ride with her father, she worried daily about not having her ticket in her possession. She nearly pestered her father to death. Finally, her dad had had enough. He sat her down and explained, “Corrie, stop fretting. I’ve got it covered. When you get ready to board the train, I will give you your ticket. I promise. You don’t need it till then.”

Sometimes, like Corrie, we get twanged out because we don’t have enough strength or resources for the future obstacles in our lives. (guilty)We can’t possibly see how we can make it through the week or the months ahead. But my friend reminded me that just as Corrie’s father would give her the train ticket at the essential moment, God would deliver the ticket of grace to her exactly when she needs it...and not one minute before.

So whether you’re conquering a full laundry basket, dealing with a difficult relationship, or loosing your hair, His ticket of grace is so... daily. Wait for it. He will not fail. He promised, “My grace is sufficient for you…” II Corinthians 12:9
Hope & Glory! to You ~ Love
Rebecca

Flying Trapeze

Jeremiah 17: 7 & 8

Hi Everyone ~

Picture the inside a big striped circus tent. The crowd roars with laughter as the clowns and the elephants exit the stage. Suddenly, the lights go dim and the dramatic music starts indicating the lighthearted mood is about to change. In the spot light a muscular guy presents himself to the crowd and climbs up one side of a soaring apparatus. Then a dainty sparkly girl appears and shimmies up the other side. They grab their bars and begin the routine, swinging into a rhythm. We can hear the swish of their passing like a perfectly timed metronome. As the performer’s swinging becomes faster the audience grows silent. The crowd isn’t stupid. They know what’s about to happen.

Sure enough at the perfect moment the girl ejects herself from the safety of her bar...let this part be in slow motion in your mind...and for a moment she is floating on thin air holding on to nothing. Her arms are out stretched; every muscle in her body taunt, yet relaxed. Her only recourse is the guy on the other bar. She knows if she panics and tries to grab onto him she will risk breaking his wrist. That would not be good in her situation (not to mention I bet he won’t play with her again.) The only thing she can do...is nothing; just trust that her partner will do his part.

I read these verses this morning and thought of the flying trapeze. “Blessed is the man that trusts (dives full out into thin air, not panicking but knowing God is the muscle guy on the other bar) in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters and that spreads out her (I thought that was cool that it used the word “her”) roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.” Jeremiah 17:7&8

Wow, what a promise... if I’ll only trust! It makes it sound so simple, eh? I want to trust the LORD just like the trapeze artists trusts her partner. I want to be a tree planted by the river of water... that brings forth fruit. I want to be totally abandoned to Him.

Well, Ok then. Here is goes: 1,2,3...fly!

Hope & Glory! to You ~ Love

Rebecca