It is so beautiful. A little girl, bread crumbs and seagulls. The waves are calm, the water is coolish but the sky is full of sun and the shadows make life look so simple. Sometimes that’s life. You want to capture the picture forever. You want to blow it up and hang it on the wall so that everyone sees it and ahh’s with delight. You want that moment frozen in time. You want the feeling to go on forever. You want to simply relish in the moment that makes you feel warm, loved and safe.
and…then there are days that you would wish would hurry by. If only you could close your eyes and wake up on the other side of today. If tomorrow the sun would waken you through the window and the birds would be singing. If the fears that are keeping you hostage now would be a distant memory and the warm fuzzy feeling of knowing that everything will be fine, is tapping on your hearts door.
“The LORD your God in your midst, the Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.” Sometimes I want the quiet and the singing before I listen to the tuning and the instrument repair. I had a violin that was broken. It wouldn’t hold it’s tune because the neck was broken. I had to send it off to get fixed before I could tune it and attempt to play it. What a difference when it came back. It held its tune, it felt strong, the notes were clear and crisp and the beauty of the song was undeniably different. But, it didn’t happen until I had the instrument repaired. So much of our lives are like God repairing us so we play well and sound beautiful. We want the rejoicing, the gladness and the singing but we have to be quiet for a bit, we need to be saved, we need to be fixed up before the melody will sound beautiful. God is in our midst and He is tuning our hearts up. Sometimes it just hurts to feel the vice grip, the sanding, the remodeling and the changing that God knows is going to make our lives a more joyful, beautiful song for Him. So as much as we all would love to stay holding on to the moment, there are times when we will go through the day on the beach where the seagulls can’t land because the waves are crashing, the wind is howling, the rain is falling and we would need to be dressed up like a mummy in our Cartharts and long johns just to get down near the water. So relish in both places; the calm beautiful picture that seems perfect, and the moments where you know God is repairing! In the end, we will have the quiet, rejoicing song in our hearts… God promised..
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