In the meantime, enjoy the ride

Since I really don't know anything about surfing on a board, and though I did a fair bit of east coast kayak surfing, I probably have a very simple perspective on the thing. But of course that never keeps me or anyone else from opining.

Sit on the beach and criticize.
Go out in the surf and scream and beat on the waves.
Paddle out, watch, turnaround, paddle, ride, wipe out, survive, learn, paddle out, repeat.

One choice produces fun. One choice inspires. One choice produces awe moments over and over and over and over...

Someone said that 50 percent of success is showing up. Maybe.
100% of success is going back out and standing up again.

Daddy, You make it so good to be in Your family. Thank you. It is so good to be home. Hold me, please.

Frustration

Frustration just may be part of the landscape.
Nope. Frustration is just a marker that there are expectations that are not founded in the Kingdom. There is a day coming when every circumstance is met with Kingdom Joy. I am just not there yet. There is so much freedom. There is so much to be had in the freedom of Kingdom living. Nothing to do but to walk in it. It is in the book. People of the book and the Spirit can find the door to walking in liberty. Healing is full there. Here. Deliverance is complete. Do you come to the Kingdom for deliverance...or do you get delivered to get to the Kingdom. You have a family right to enter into the most secret place before you are clean. Before you are delivered. You can still have your crippled feet and take your place at the Kings table.
Come on. Take it.

Help me, Father. There is so much to eat and so few at the table.

Thanksgiving

as an alternative to Foreboding.

I am so addicted to controlling the lives of the people around me. Fortunately, today I have seen signs of deliverance. Today I only wanted to change what I could, instead of wanting to and doing it. So I have left myself open to pain. There can be only one explanation. I am okay, and I am going to be okay.

So the only thing to do at this point is to give thanks for the deliverance and healing. And give thinks for bright hope for tomorrow, blessings all mine and ten thousand beside. Great is Thy Faithfulness. Great is Thy Faithfulness. Morning by morning, new Mercies I see. All I have needed Thy Hand hath provided. Great is Thy Faithfulness, Lord, unto me.

Everyone involved is okay. And is going to be okay.

Daddy, why do I crawl off of Your lap? I am so happy that you welcome me back every time.

Bad Feelings

A life of grace is very good. A life in the Holy Wild is good. It is a life where knowing reigns supreme. Where knowing that everything worth wondering about is settled. So when a question arises, the answer is "Finished." The answer is "Yes and Amen." Then what is left is feelings, too. These feelings in a restored soul are love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, gentleness, longsuffering (why do I always forget that last one?)

From the vantage point of my Father's lap, it is clear that there is healing available for the soul who pursues it. There is indeed a balm in Gilead. Maybe only after an aching soul gets a chance to see the damage being done by leading others to ache as well, will they seek the balm for someone else, and come in contact with it themselves. One touch of Grace is all it takes.

Father, heat the balm to cause the aroma of "finished" to linger. Contrast it with false satisfaction. Use your church to walk daily in the contrast. I was broken, but now I am whole. I ached, but now I am at rest.