Advent is Here
Do you ever just feel 6 years old? I did this morning when I came back to Advent...When I cuddled up on the couch after Russell had gone... advent together every morning is so special but do you remember being a kid?... longing for time... just you and daddy?... for me it was 5 kids, me being the second youngest, and the youngest girl, and there were times I just wanted to be alone with my daddy, just me and daddy...sitting together, being together, with no other... but him and me. And when I returned this morning to the advent reading and started singing silent night, it became silent, and I visited the hillside with the stars shining bright... it felt like a holy place, calm in the twilight under the bright stars and I was being called to come...✨come and be... just me and Him🌟Walking
Walking I know now that I have the blessings of God even though I've had times in my life that I did not walk closely with Him. It proves to me that He alone knows what is is in my h eart, even when I don't. The words I've spoken in anger and sometimes even rage He covered; my actions that look like the depravity in the world; He covered. And even today at 54 years of age I am still able to walk in my flesh and not in His Spirit and that too, He covers. I recognize and know I still am in this journey and I sometimes wonder " Will I ever have victory over these things I struggle with daily... My irritability and quick on the draw with unkind words tossed in the air like flaming arrows that seek to take down all in their path. My humanity so fragile, HIS SPIRIT SO STRONG. Come Holy Spirit fill me, consume me, overtake me until my walk looks like His. Galatians 5:16 I say then walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the fle...
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