Once again I am awed and inspired by the lovely folks at Momastery. (see blog link under my fav.s) Glennon shares such humorous and inspirational wisdom it's nearly unbearable. So many good nuggets and sentences in her long posts. I get quite overwhelmed. I love what she said in this recent entry about her life being like a snowglobe -- a small, fragile thing that get's stirred up a lot but always settles again; is always safe because she's being held by big, steady hands.
It's a challenging post to read because she fights with this thought that we aren't in control of anything. We can't even control who we want to love ( her family recently experienced a failed adoption ).
And I love her redemption of that fight: we may not be able to control the who, what, or when, but we do control if we will love. That is our choice and ours only. Will we respond with a pervasive yes, no matter what the cost or the pain or the suffering? Or will we choose to remain in our anger, self pity, and defiance with a resounding "no" ?
"There is only one question in this ridiculous life.
Will you love or will you not?
Will you love this place, this plan, this jacked up situation, this wretched person, this part of your life that was never ever in your plan?
Will you love this life, this one that's put before you? We can choose to love. That is our only real power, I think. But love is never the safest choice.
Because we have to follow where she leads, and her path is twisty and turny and narrow and branches jump out from nowhere to try to knock us unconscious. The path is dirty and rocky and that love... she rarely leads us where we hoped she would.
Do we ever even get to the end of her path? Do we get to see where she's leading?
Not sure."
I went to a Gungor concert the other night and was blown by their creative brilliance. Actually, their sister band is called The Brilliance, and they opened the show and sang a song that has been in my head all day. "Hope to the hopeless, your love is. Strength in my weakness, your love is. May your love cause us to open up..."
Love is freedom. Love is strength. And love is hard. But God is in the love, and God forms the love, and God blesses the love. Though we know not where her path is leading, we can be sure that God is on it with us. We love because He loved us first. And we are only going where He has already gone.
So say yes today and every day, but let's just focus on today. Let's look past the hurt and erase the scoreboard. Let's rest in the truth of being unfathomably loved by our creator, and once we're so filled by his love, let's allow it to spill out freely and openly, especially in laughter and even in tears.
------> more inspiration : Reason to Sing
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