Monday, July 6, 2009

hmm

i love how knowledge is never ending. i will always be continuing to learn. to love. to live. This idea of Romance has yet again been brought to my attention from the book that I am reading. (The Sacred Romance by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge.) The author quotes C.S. Lewis and i don't think that it could have been put any better.

Brent Curtis goes on to say, that the people and times and places through which the Romance has seared us will betray us if we think that the Romance is in them, C.S. Lewis tells us

"...it is not in them, it only comes through them and what comes through them is longing...The are not the thing itself; they are only the scent of a flower we have not found, the echo of a tune we have not heard, news from a country we have never visited."

Curtis goes on to say that Lewis is telling us that the Romance is both set within us, and still out on the road ahead of us.

So with that I am challenged to not settle for where my heart is at right now. I have so much to look forward to, to learn. I desire to gain wisdom. Mainly through people. Trying to understand them...better yet just getting to know them and their story and simply loving them as Christ loves me. I am finding that I am way too judgemental at times. Oh how easy it is to put people in boxes. I want to break down those boxes, stereotypes, judgements. How can I if i am continuing to do them. Lord give me discernment and wisdom.

Return to Him. Return to Him. I find myself wanting to do that wholeheartedly. Even in my low times He is there. Yet to fail me. Oh what a beautiful picture of a Fathers love. I need to look more towards Jesus if i want to see where the next steps of my life are supposed to be..go..live. If he is leading my heart, how can i go wrong? I really am willing to take the risk. What a beautiful risk it would be.

God is good.

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