Good morning…
“Sue, this is great!” she wrote after yesterday’s post. “It surely speaks of me and to me. I’ve written the opening paragraph on a ‘stick-um’ and put it on the mirror on my dresser as a simple reminder each day.”
As a grieving widow who recently lost her son, her feet are now planted on painful terrain. Yet God’s healing power is here. Slow spiritual awakening is now. Staying present with God is well worth one simple “stick-um.”
“Here’s the paradox: we achieve our deepest progress by standing still,” says Sue Monk Kidd in When The Heart Waits. “I was learning that being still and waiting in one place – going not forward but inward – was the sort of progress that really counted,” the sort of progress that eventually transforms a cocooned caterpillar into a butterfly. (34-35)
God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us (Ephesians 3:20, MSG).
…Sue…
