Wow, what an amazing journey that was. I had so much flooding through my mind after I finished it I didn't know what to do so I wrote in my journal. Here's what I wrote, I think it says best what the book did for me...
The reality of the littleness of me, but the gloriousness of who I am called, leaves me in awe of my creator, my lover, my friend, and my teacher. I realize the wrong ways of thinking that make everything so confusing. If I can only let Him love me. How simple but how incredibly difficult. To give up control (my independence from Him) would be such freedom! How I want that. How I hope I know how that feels someday soon. I am nothing, and my attempts to be something are of vein conceit. May I be all I am created to be in the freedom and grace of following after and communing with Him. May I think less often about myself and more often about His wonderful and glorious goodness and love. He is so worthy of my every thought, of my every desire. Open up my eyes of understanding God and burst open my ears to commune clearly with your wisdom. O God, how you fascinate me. May my encounters with you become even more real with each interaction. May they be ingrained deep into my memories so as to become more real than my current perceived reality. Let me not keep you bound to a little pretty book but allow you the freedom to move through my life in the largeness of everything that you are - beyond what my imagination can muster up. Praise your name Jesus! May it be glorified!
3 comments:
jen, i love you!!! you are such an encouragement to me!
I knew you would love it! Thanks for sharing this....you put into words what I have been feeling!
I am left speechless - I just finished reading the book today and can't put into words what is going through my spirit and my soul . . . I felt like I was somewhere else today. God is amazing and I am utterly more aware how my mind gets me in so much confusion . . .
Post a Comment