Closed Doors

The only thing worse than a closed door is a closed window. A door you might walk away from unscathed, never knowing the opportunity just missed behind it. But it is an interminable punishment to have a window closed and bolted from you- where all the things you missed are right before your very eyes- completely unreachable. This is, in truth, the worst of all rejections He can possibly give.

Timesteps

Never get so bogged down with that "wrong turn" you took so many years ago that it keeps you from seeing the right turn today. At the end of days, when time becomes a thing of the past and all the calendars are meaningless- He may allow you to go back and fix all the things that troubled your heart in the dead of night: all those things you'd never tell a soul or admit to. Time will be ours to do with what we please. Of course, by then our heart's greatest desire shall be to do is His will. We may have some faint memory of something we wanted to do or say or speak- but our hearts will already be satisfied.

Waiting and Faith

You will never know how incredibly difficult faith is- and how utterly helpless the feeling- until you decide to put something completely in His hands. To finally let go and agree to let God handle it, knowing you have done all that you can do in the matter. There is no point in going back and checking on it once you have handed it over to Him. The letter is not just sealed, but mailed and unreachable. You may drop to your knees and pray for the faith to trust Him, but it belongs to Him now. The only thing that can be done is to wait. Each minute thereafter, when the temptation is to run back and take it from Him, or even to shout in the darkness "Father, how long?" - you must simply close your eyes and whisper, "Thy will be done." These may be the most difficult words of all.

Winged Eagles

Make no mistake, those chains which supposedly bind us are nothing more than illusions, shadow boxes made of cheap tin, a spell cast on us eons ago by the enemy. The only known antidote is faith. Where fear resides, love grows weak. Until we let go of our fears and turn them over once and for all to the Lord GOD, we will be like strong and powerful eagles who just never trusted our wings enough to fly.

03/13/11

“Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him, because he cares for you.” 1 Peter 5-7

“Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalm 37:4


I can think of no other verses that better sum up the way to live, and put all our trust in Him.

The Missing Key

Make no mistake, God can open doors for you. The highest wall can be scaled, rivers will be parted, lost loves made new again- nothing is impossible for those who have faith in Him. Those doors you have longed tried to enter-bolted and double bolted from the inside- will fade away like autumn leaves blown into the forewinds. With Him, all things are possible.

Stardust

We may very well be remembered not for the big moments that shine brightest, but for a number of the small, seemingly insignificant things done along the way during the course of a life. The times when we did our best, even though no one was watching- long since forgotten and put out of our memories. Lives touched but unknown, scattered like the light of stars that burn on for centuries. One never knows . . .

Vivaldi's Four Seasons
"Winter"
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