Good morning…
I reminded her of a discerning truth we had learned together years ago. “When you are proceeding from good to better, you will experience God’s touch as light and gentle, like a drop of water falling on a sponge,” writes Larry Warner on page 153 in Journey With Jesus. If something is not right for now, it will feel ‘like a drop of water hitting a stone.'”
Then she read to me a poem she had already prepared for our time of listened to God together. She read the poem slowly. She read the poem twice. We both sensed the synchronicity of God’s living Spirit.
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Unexpected by Gemma Simmonds
A prophet on a lonely journey
the goal: encounter with God.
How do we come
face to face with God?
How will we find
strength for the pilgrimage?
How will we know
that we have found the one we seek?
Our way
is not mapped out in certainties.
We walk by faith and not by sight,
making the path by walking.
So many choices to discern.
Life shakes the sure ground
under our feet.
The wind of change
strips away our protective covering.
The fire of our passions
blazes all around us.
In the midst of the chaos,
the sound of a gentle breeze.
God enters our life quietly,
like April dew on the grass,
like a drop of water on a sponge,
like a leaf falling into the palm
of an open hand.
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Finding strength for the pilgrimage, making the path by walking, our time together felt like a drop of water seeping softly into a sponge.
Now since we have chosen to walk with the Spirit, let’s keep each step in perfect sync with God’s Spirit (Galatians 5:25, VOICE).
…Sue…
