March 30, 2012

• I often find myself needing to do things in which I don’t feel particularly gifted. This applies to cooking and administrative tasks, especially. It’s tempting to just, somehow, wiggle out of them, but that’s not always an option! We do need to eat, and yes, I do like to have people over and make them feel welcome – even though the preparation isn’t necessarily where I shine the most. And, let’s face it – things and events and papers and other to-do’s need to be created and organized, delegated and accomplished,
  in order for other, perhaps more noteworthy, goals to be met.

  So, the bottom line is that just about every day, I need to do things that don’t “fulfill” me or make me feel particularly competent. I suppose this is all good.
  It makes me dependent, and I suspect that is exactly where God would have me linger.
  
  “When our tasks are performed without a sense of God’s direction and help,
  then we walk a difficult and lonely road.
  To seek to serve others without God’s direction and sustenance
  will probably embitter us.”
  ~ C. Ringma
  
  Okay, so the goal is to do it all with Him, garnering what I need to do it, from Him.
  It is to think less and less about what I’d prefer and like….to let His companionship transform the very necessary and inglorious things that make me uncomfortable,
  into those things that please Him, and love others.
  
  “The Lord kept working with them….” Mk 16:20
  “My yoke…is gracious and pleasant and My burden is light and easy to be borne.” Mt 11:30
  
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  Now, here’s an existence that, for me,
  would require daily dependency and close intimacy with my Creator:
  
  
  
  (South-central Washington. Truly in the middle of no where.)
  
  We never tire of the glimpses we get of our mountain.
  They make ordinary days extraordinary.
  
   
  Mt. Hood. She plays hide and seek much of the time.
  
  And, there’s glory to be found in even the rather lackluster days. 
  On the Columbia River Gorge:
  
  
  

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