Good morning…
I waited impatiently for this morning’s message to pop through my groggy brain. You know me, I wake when God wakes me and I lift onto my inner tippy toes, my soul stretching to sense a living Word from our loving LORD. Slowly. Today possibilities percolated slowly. Way too slowly for my liking.
“…we’ve forgotten about the slow, sometimes torturous, unraveling of God’s grace that takes place in the ‘middle places,'” reminds Sue Monk Kidd on page 26 in When The Heart Waits. I was stuck in the “middle place” between not knowing and eventually knowing. For a long, long time, my mind lacked the calm of clarity, so I laid back down in a cozy fetal position and, embodying my question mark, I drifted again to a short sleep.
What wisdom filled me as I drifted back awake?
The Lord is not slow in doing what he promised—the way some people understand slowness. But God is being patient with you. He does not want anyone to be lost, but he wants all people to change their hearts and lives (2 Peter 3:9, NCV). Or as The Message translation explains: He’s giving everyone space and time to change.
In this space and in this time, might we trust the slow unraveling of God’s transforming grace?
…Sue…
