Nov 25, 09
Let Me Taste Your Consolation Too
Thank you so very much for the kind blog and fb comments. I so appreciate your encouragement and just to let you know, we’re really having a very nice visit. Sophia adores the attention and fun being lavished on her, and Dad and Marlene adore Sophie and Ella, so it’s really a wonderful situation in so many ways. (Makes me really miss being closer to family!)
You know, I was doing the math last night and this year, my mom and my stepdad will be married for TWENTY YEARS. And in 2010? My dad and Marlene will be married for TEN years. This strikes me because I think I sometimes fall into the ol' trap of all children re: “my parents only exist in MY universe” and think about THEIR marriage to each other (because it was so impactful on me). But an accurate picture is that my mom has been married to Charlie for WAY longer than she was married to my dad, and my dad and Marlene are not all that far away from the length of their marriage either.
Life goes very fast, doesn’t it? Oh! How I pray that I will live each day resting in Christ AND striving for Christ too.
BTW—If you’re not yet on the RZIM Devotional Email List, I hope you’ll sign up because OH MY STARS! But Jill Carattini hit it out the park again today with her essay, "A Different Night." I’ll tempt you with her excerpt of a John Donne poem (a poet, by the way, that had a huge impact on me right before God saved me as a teenager) and hope that you’ll click through and read the entire post. It’s very worth your time.
Tara B.
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You know, I was doing the math last night and this year, my mom and my stepdad will be married for TWENTY YEARS. And in 2010? My dad and Marlene will be married for TEN years. This strikes me because I think I sometimes fall into the ol' trap of all children re: “my parents only exist in MY universe” and think about THEIR marriage to each other (because it was so impactful on me). But an accurate picture is that my mom has been married to Charlie for WAY longer than she was married to my dad, and my dad and Marlene are not all that far away from the length of their marriage either.
Life goes very fast, doesn’t it? Oh! How I pray that I will live each day resting in Christ AND striving for Christ too.
BTW—If you’re not yet on the RZIM Devotional Email List, I hope you’ll sign up because OH MY STARS! But Jill Carattini hit it out the park again today with her essay, "A Different Night." I’ll tempt you with her excerpt of a John Donne poem (a poet, by the way, that had a huge impact on me right before God saved me as a teenager) and hope that you’ll click through and read the entire post. It’s very worth your time.
"O most gracious God, on this sickbed I feel under your correction, and I taste of humiliation, but let me taste of consolation, too. Once this scourge has persuaded us that we are nothing of ourselves, may it also persuade us that you are all things unto us....G'nite and much love,
When your Son cried out “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” you reached out your hand not to heal his sad soul, but to receive his holy soul. Neither did he desire to hold it from you, but surrendered it to you.
I see your hand upon me now, O Lord, and I ask not why it comes or what it intends. Whether you will bid my soul to stay in this body for some time, or meet you this day in paradise, I ask not. My true healing lies in silent and absolute obedience to your will, even before I know it. Preserve that obedience, O my God, and that will preserve me to you."
Tara B.
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