As I settle into another Christian season in the wilderness, my heart has settled on my focus. Prayerful that this turns into a constant conversion of my heart.
To welcome God in - to a deeper dwelling place in my very soul. I thirst for more from him.
I wonder, often, how God has the power and energy to take all of us as we come to him. He is the supremest of beings so of course my pathetic human wonderings are nothing compared to the scope of his Love.
How will I make room for more God in my life?
The Lenten Season suggests we fast. I've never been too committed to that - to be honest, mostly because I fail, many times, and in the end feel defeated and disappointed by my human-ness.
Which isn't what God wants for me, this I know.
This season I am fasting - from social media. It's a cesspit, as most of us know. Yet it is a good way to keep in touch with friends, near & distant. And still, each of my encounters with Facebook in particular leave me feeling deflated, irritable, and even angry.
Not the best mental place to welcome God into my mind, body, heart, and soul.
Spending time with God - reading, studying, journaling - will be the order of my coming days. With prayer and meditation, I hope this will become part of my life instead of just a season.
In the forward of my Lenten Journal is this from Father John Burns:
In Lent, we recall the people of Israel's tendency to wander off and forget God, and we revisit the Lord's patient and repeated call to return. We find ourselves within that very same dynamic, marked by the patterns of wandering and longing to return.
That - is my call. That - is the journey I have set my feet upon.
My Journal is from Blessed is She.
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