How Far
Ho-LY Smokes! What a morning!
If I could wish anything for every person in this world I would wish for them to have a morning like mine. To feel the comfort, power, peace and assurance that I’ve felt. Strength, love, encouragement. Wow.
Time slipped away from me as I could NOT stop praying for my friends. What a privilege! Thinking about folks I know who are hulled up in their homes right now. Together...for days. I thought about all the things they could be doing! The learning, the playing, the serving one another, the conversating, the sharing. The sitting, the drawing near, seeking, filling up, the praising.
T-I-M-E. It’s a gift. I love time! Time is one of my favorite things! I never seem to have enough, always want more and try to fill every drop of it. Oh, I love time.
We have time right now. Who knows how much, but we have it now. Praying for families on my prayer list that are going through challenges that I can only imagine, I ask for them to be filled with joy and laughter and filled up with love for one another. Eyes to be opened to the needs of one another and the power and desire to fill them! Learning new things, playing new games, having good conversations about topics not usually discussed, like GOD and His love for them. What a wonderful opportunity to dig into The Word and learn some history. Learn about His love for us and what Jesus means. Who is Moses really, and why does his story matter. What all did King David really do and why was he so special...How do we fit into the story...what’s the next chapter?
I pray for my family as there have been so many changes these past few months. Have I taught them well? Will they draw on the good things or settle into the habits that I can’t seem to break? They are far from my reach now and I can’t push them into place. They have to find their own way and make their own decisions...will they make the right ones? Did I show them the right way? Will they only remember all the times I bombed?
What about those who think they know me? Do I have time to show them who I really am? Do they need to know?
Right now there is time. I have time. I love this time. I’m excited about having it and I’m praying I don’t waste it.
If my home was full right now, I hope I would take time with each individual that was here and chat. I’d want to know their answers to the deep questions: their fears, their angers, their worries, their joys, their faith. I’d want them to ask me the hard questions and I’d want to find the answers together. I would want to fill them up! Fill them with food, and comfort and love. I’d want to laugh, cry, rejoice, sing and sit quietly with them-for days.
Of course I’m concerned for those who have been, who are now and that will be affected by this virus, and I’m praying for them as well. I have family that are hugely in danger, and friends that are already exposed. I pray for their time too.
How far? How far will we go to find happiness? How far will I go to share the feelings I have about my Savior? How far IS Heaven?
I have to wonder if some of us are experiencing what Heaven could be like right now. If I had everyone I love and care about around me, and I knew they have accepted salvation, and we could be together in happiness and joy, I would have to think Heaven wasn’t too far away.
If I could have one answer to prayer, it would be that everyone knew the peace of salvation like I do; before there isn’t any more time…
