Sometimes
To be honest, as I sit here to write, I feel out of words. My mind is blank & every topic idea I have written down just seems flat to me… no inspiration is sparking & no encouraging thought is sprouting to mind.
So, I am deciding to just show up. This blog isn’t about me anyway… it’s about Someone MUCH greater than me.
I am not saying all of this to try to sound pompously puffed up & “super spiritual,” but rather as a demonstration that I am just a person like you.
A Vessel of HIS
I desire to be a vessel to share HIS grace & HIS hope.
Without Him, I am & would be nothing. Literally. Without Him, I wouldn’t even exist.
And sometimes, I have learned that when He shuts my mouth of words & my mind off from inspiration, it’s because He has something He wants to say to me, too, even if just to teach me that when I feel I have “run out,” He is still at work even without my “help.”
So, I am deciding to just show up & let Him do what He will with my typing fingers.
Just a Prayer
“God, I know so little. And even when I let myself believe that I know so much, I am humbled again to see how little it is in light of all You know & see & understand. Please forgive me for trying to run my life, even if “just” in the “little” ways. Help me redeem my time. Give me words of grace & love & hope for others. Help me to edify those You put in my path. Help me not to waste opportunities to shine Your light of hope to those around me. You see the hidden hurts & questions & doubts & chains that people have. Help me to have compassion & patience & to remember to pray for them. Help me to live a life of obedience with You as my KING, because You ARE. In Jesus’ name, AMEN.”
Not Perfect, But Subject to the One Who Is
You don’t have to have the perfect words to say. You don’t have to “feel inspired.” There is no perfect formula.
You don’t even have to feel you are “perfect” because you aren’t… none of us are… but HE IS.
You just have to be willing to show up & be used BY God, THROUGH His perfect plan & His perfect power & love, FOR Him.
Just show up.
And let God.
And shine HOPE by doing just that & not an ounce more than that.
He is ENOUGH. He knows. He sees. He is able. Amen & amen.
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