Good morning…
It seems many of us can relate to the sensation of being bulldozed, as expressed in yesterday’s blog post. The word was still on my fingertips when I ran into it in another form.
“Standing here on an empty hilltop in New Hampshire, as a bulldozer slowly pushes the debris of a small red house into a neat pile,” writes Katrina Kenison in Mitten Strings For God: Reflections for Mothers In a Hurry, “I allow, just for a moment, the past to push hard against the walls of my heart. Being alive, it seems, means learning to bear the weight of the passing of all things.”
“It means finding a way to lightly hold all the places we’ve loved and left anyway,” she muses, “all the moments and days and years that have already been lived and lost to memory, even as we live on in the here and now, knowing full well that this moment, too, is already gone. It means, always, allowing for the hard truth of endings. It means, too, keeping faith in beginnings.”
As I was pondering this quote, my friend shared a text from her friend: “Oh my goodness! This is incredible. I love that Sue published your story. As I was in the middle of Sue’s devotional about being bulldozed, I went over to wash off my hands. I saw my scripture wheel had not been flipped for the day. I had this sense that God was going to speak through His word (duh) as I flipped it.”
“Yes, God wants us to turn to Him for the rebuilding,” she concluded. “The LORD wants to be our foundation and the foundation of many generations. God will guide the process of rebuilding and restoring our ruins.”
Feed the hungry, and help those in trouble. Then your light will shine out from the darkness, and the darkness around you will be as bright as noon. The Lord will guide you continually, giving you water when you are dry and restoring your strength. You will be like a well-watered garden, like an ever-flowing spring. Some of you will rebuild the deserted ruins of your cities. Then you will be known as a rebuilder of walls and a restorer of homes (Isaiah 58:10-12, NLT).
…Sue…
