Good morning…
I wake today feeling discombobulated. I slept until nearly 6:00 am so this post may not make our shared-coffee ritual. I just woke from a dream I wish I could unpack immediately. Rain again means dog paws have left dirty patterns on our wood floor, ugh. I must tidy up before the cleaners arrive. I fear yesterday’s purchase is simply ‘not right’. How will we pay the bills of this season? I ‘should’ do my Bible reading first before anything else. The committee in my head is scarfing down a chaotic breakfast feast!
Then my mind veers toward the final words of Margaret Silf’s The Other Side of Chaos. I read these words aloud to my class at our final gathering yesterday.
“As you go, you will meet situations that take you closer to the God who dreams within you and to the heart of what it means to be human. Stay with those situations and lend them your energy. And you will meet situations that mock your dream, despise your heart’s truth, and work against the coming of God’s dream. Shake them off like mud from your shoes, and leave them behind. Walk in your own, not in another’s, sandals, for your journey is yours alone. No one else can make it for you, nor can you walk with integrity in the path destined for another. Walk on, in courage and in hope, leaning on the only staff you know you can trust, and one day, the you least expect it, you will wake to find yourself on the other side of chaos.” (p.183-184)
Savoring this wisdom again, I hear the truth God is whispering to me.
“Stay with those inklings leading you closer to Me. Shake off the mud of the ‘shoulds’ working against My peace. Walk calmly, with integrity, in your size-six shoes; your journey through this day is yours alone. Lean on Me, trusting that together we will find our way through today’s discombobulating chaos.”
“Don’t think you need a lot of extra equipment for this. You are the equipment” (Mark 6:8, MSG).
…Sue…
