Just Continue That Thought...

A thought by Ann Voskamp in her book,  WayMaker ,   (p. 34). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon to buy the book.) And that is a good thing, yes it is. Ann says, "Expect nothing but expect hesed . Expect God to knock at your door, expect God to rise on your horizon, expect hope and mercy and miracles and a glass of cold water, but just don’t expect God to come looking any way you expect. Expect nothing but hesed , the lovingkindness of God—just not in the kinds of ways you’d ever dreamed. Pain will come, but name it a mystery, and find manna in it, and taste bits of miracle even in what you can hardly stand and don’t understand." She continues her story, " 'You okay?' Farm Boy had turned around that snow-globe December night, laughed a bit nervously, making another U-turn at the end of the street. 'I know we’re now kinda late—or actually really late.' "But maybe, if we’ve already connected, we’ve already arrived. W...

A thought by Ann Voskamp in her book, WayMaker ,   (p. 30). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon to buy the book.) That's not exactly what we usually want, is it? Ann continues, "I think I’ve always expected . . . more ." She says, "I mean, maybe that’s always been the story, right from our collective beginning. The whole of the rest of the garden of Eden wasn’t enough; we wanted—expected—more. Though we were chosen to bask in the bliss, we weren’t satisfied until we could choose our own way, pick our own dreams, take a bite out of our own choosing, and have all of it. But to be dangerously frank, the way God chose for us in the garden can seem misguided at best, and foolishly illogical at worst: Don’t eat this fruit. Why in the name of all things holy does He choose to forbid . . . fruit ? What in the world is immoral about savoring a bit of the proverbial apple? Why obey a commandment not to sink your teeth into the sweet, an edic...