Saturday afternoon. 3pm. Dried. Sandy. Just returned from Samples at Costco & the beach. Surrounded by hungry daughters and sons - craving to be loved & accepted, wanting so badly to know Truth, and some of them don't even know it - and we are all in it together. The waves crash... I look at a few of the girls through my aviators and we talk about life... I sit there, I look - my eyes begin to water behind the lens and my heart begins to feel broken & satisfied. I know how they feel! I know the aches & pain & questions & insecurities & wonders & hopes & joys & losses ... And I know the freedom and restoration, healing & victories that are coming! "This is what I was made to do" I thought to myself sitting there. Love God . Love people. Jesus Knew, God has it figured out. As all three of them were communing, living community out, fellow-shipping in the fullness, they knew our most fulfilled thing in life would be to Love God and to Love People.
In my opinion, one of the best things to do is to listen to hearts. Because not only do you get to see the reality of a person, not only do you get to see another side of God... But in those moments, however long or short, that daughter, or that son, is trusting you & in that they are allowing themselves to become vulnerable, making room, believing in and hoping for Truth to come, Healing to become a reality and love to saturate there lives because they know it's possible and everything within them desires to keep hoping it'll come their way.
The beauty about this season for me is that I can watch it all, I can be the hands and feet of Jesus! I can sit there, eyes and ears and heart open and be what they need and usher them to the feet of Jesus, and war for their freedom.
My heart is so alive. I am so happy. The Lord is showing me so much as I just allow Him to use me without me having my own "opinions" getting in the way - because I realize they just get in the way, and I don't really care about my opinions at the end of the day - I just want the fullness of Jesus. I could not have dreamed to be anywhere else. He knows what He's doing and I am so glad that I can trust Him. No matter what it looks like, He is trustworthy, He is true, He is truth.
In my opinion, one of the best things to do is to listen to hearts. Because not only do you get to see the reality of a person, not only do you get to see another side of God... But in those moments, however long or short, that daughter, or that son, is trusting you & in that they are allowing themselves to become vulnerable, making room, believing in and hoping for Truth to come, Healing to become a reality and love to saturate there lives because they know it's possible and everything within them desires to keep hoping it'll come their way.
The beauty about this season for me is that I can watch it all, I can be the hands and feet of Jesus! I can sit there, eyes and ears and heart open and be what they need and usher them to the feet of Jesus, and war for their freedom.
My heart is so alive. I am so happy. The Lord is showing me so much as I just allow Him to use me without me having my own "opinions" getting in the way - because I realize they just get in the way, and I don't really care about my opinions at the end of the day - I just want the fullness of Jesus. I could not have dreamed to be anywhere else. He knows what He's doing and I am so glad that I can trust Him. No matter what it looks like, He is trustworthy, He is true, He is truth.
Lizzie,
ReplyDeleteI have been sitting here with my coffee putting off getting to work and reading all the blogs I have not read yet.
All I can say is that I have an amazing daughter who I don't deserve. I love you so much.
Dad
Hey Lizzie,
ReplyDeleteNot sure why this came out from Chris's account and not mine, but he has an amazing sister.
Dad