Monday, July 9, 2012

HIS GIFT


Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5

In the midst of a crisis this scripture is scary. In the very long seven months our family and friends have endured, it is so easy to rely on my understanding of the crisis: a vindictive person with a personal vendetta, personnel who lack basic knowledge of what it takes to supervise a caring community of learners, a slow and burdensome court system, a press whose motto, “guilty until proven innocent” is easier to report than digging into the human story in back of the headlines.

All this is my knowledge, my understanding. It is not enough. Worry, despair, a sense of hopeless still can, and often does, take over. It is then I muddle around and find “love and faithfulness which has never left me.” (Proverbs 3:3) It is then “I call out for insight,” (Proverbs 2:3) beyond my own. It is then I must trust in the Lord once again.

And He shows me: I see a community rallying behind the good guy. I see a family steadfast as it holds onto the deep, abiding love for each other it probably didn’t know it had. I hear mature, honest comments from thoughtful and deep thinking youth.   I don’t just know this, I feel God holding unto us, all of us, tight within his grasp. It is His Gift.

So we’re not giving up. How could we?
Even though on the outside it often looks
like things are falling apart on us,
on the inside, where God is making new life,
not a day goes by without [God’s] unfolding grace.
2 Corinthians 4:16, The Message





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