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Wisdom. Faith. Grace. Becoming.
For different reasons, we're all in the crucible. We're walking through a season of intensive refinement, punctuated with celebrations and miracles. We wonder and ask, what is God doing? Where is He? And when it hurts the most, we beg for His deliverance. We struggle to open our hands and our hearts to Him even as we question His presence and purposes in this place. We cry out for Him to show us what He intends for our lives.
And then we are challenged to ask:
What if, instead of pleading His intervention, we acknowledge His presence and thank Him for these crucible moments? What if, instead of asking Him to deliver us from this place, we ask Him to deliver us in this place?
None of us knows the answer, but it is clear He has given us each other to lean in on and walk with. Our tears and prayers and questions spill together. We can each find a reason we don't quite belong, but we know all the same that He brought us together for a purpose that as of now, remains hidden in Him.
This is us, walking through it together. This is us, sojourning through a land where the line between faith and crazy is sometimes imperceptible. Reach out in the dark, and you will find the hand of a friend.
Sometimes we stand and wait, trusting that our seeming stillness somehow amounts to best honoring and serving our King. And sometimes we have the chance to open our windows so everyone can see and to say: Even if He does not show up, I will not bend my knee to another.
Dedicated to the glory of God and for the purposes of His kingdom.
Sarah, Christianne, Christin, and Kirsten
For different reasons, we're all in the crucible. We're walking through a season of intensive refinement, punctuated with celebrations and miracles. We wonder and ask, what is God doing? Where is He? And when it hurts the most, we beg for His deliverance. We struggle to open our hands and our hearts to Him even as we question His presence and purposes in this place. We cry out for Him to show us what He intends for our lives.
And then we are challenged to ask:
What if, instead of pleading His intervention, we acknowledge His presence and thank Him for these crucible moments? What if, instead of asking Him to deliver us from this place, we ask Him to deliver us in this place?
None of us knows the answer, but it is clear He has given us each other to lean in on and walk with. Our tears and prayers and questions spill together. We can each find a reason we don't quite belong, but we know all the same that He brought us together for a purpose that as of now, remains hidden in Him.
This is us, walking through it together. This is us, sojourning through a land where the line between faith and crazy is sometimes imperceptible. Reach out in the dark, and you will find the hand of a friend.
Sometimes we stand and wait, trusting that our seeming stillness somehow amounts to best honoring and serving our King. And sometimes we have the chance to open our windows so everyone can see and to say: Even if He does not show up, I will not bend my knee to another.
Dedicated to the glory of God and for the purposes of His kingdom.
Sarah, Christianne, Christin, and Kirsten
6 comments:
AWESOME!!
I totally burst out laughing at the photo of my little red shoes. :)
And I love that one of Kaari standing in the snow with her mouth hanging wide open. She looks so long and lanky, that girl.
Yep. I totally watched this entire video with a huge smile on my face. We're so cute!
PS: Girls, you're going to have to restrain me. Otherwise, I'm going to find myself posting a very precious, highly coveted piece of blackmail video taped of a particular group of girls singing wildly to a particular ABBA song in a particular monster truck on a particular drive home from a particular mountain. Hmmm . . . I wonder what video I could possibly be talking about?!?!
Oh Christianne! All I have to say is, we are a community built on trust. Are you really sure you want to challenge that trust in such a way! =)
I love the video! I love all the nuances of beauty.
Thanks, Kirsten!
Wow, Kirsten. What song is that...I kept thinking how apropos the lyrics were for us, and now I can't remember any more than, "we drank the ocean dry, then watched the sun rise."
So beautiful...and definitely see you next year!
Also, Christianne? If you really want to post the video, post your little heart out. Just remember that it's three warrior princesses against one, and, well, I think we all know where this is going.
;)
LOL . . . you girls make me laugh.
I did show the video to Kirk. He thought it was carefree, silly, and entertaining. He was really glad I had shared it with him. Don't you want your hubs to have the same privilege??? :)
christianne - i'm glad you enjoyed it!!
and you know, i would LOVE it if you posted the video, personally. i don't know if that will lessen the enjoyment you might have in posting it, but i for one would love to have it on file!!
christin - all i could think of when i considered our visit & looking through my pictures was: look at all that beauty!! so i thought it was appropriate.
sarah - i thought the lyrics were so appropriate too. because i feel like the beauty we experienced was almost too much (how about that "slowly open wide" bit??).
the song is off the weepies' most recent album, "hideaway". i LOVE that album. it gets lots of play time at my house!! :o)
LOVE YOU!!
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