Safe Journey
9/13/09 Insights from Prayer Lord, You’re the flame that overheats me and the cooling water that refreshes me again. You’re the breeze that chills me and the warmth that blankets me over. In all my life, it’s to Your purpose I live, whether I think highly or lowly of it. You are the Creator; I am the created. My opinion is not needed; my help is not necessary.
And yet You welcome me into Your arms as if in gratitude when I please You. You rejoice when I proclaim Your glory. You pour out Your love on me whether I love You back or not. But when I love You back You make Your love work overtime – to show me things that no one else is shown; things shared by us alone. Through Your grace You’ve given me knowledge of things I didn’t have to know, but the knowledge of which completes me like the smooth healing over of a wound or the discovery of something thought lost forever.
And so in this companionship I want to bask forever growing in love so that I might please You more and more. It remains to me to welcome You always, if I do nothing else in this life. I am in complete trust; as I walk I don’t want to ever let go of Your hand. I live on this Earth because You will it, but my eyes remain locked in on Your light. I will keep approaching, with my hands out for Your guidance, even when the world pulls me back. I will step on the stones you’ve provided because the ground between and around them is soggy and perilous.
If I’m called away off to the side of the path by other voices, it’s Yours I will seek out of the noise, to walk straight and true towards You. I won’t be lost because You know where I am. I have everything I need for the journey because You are my father and You provide good things.
It lifts my spirit to see others on the way – I want to use Your gifts to me to encourage them and invite others in to join us on the journey. The time will come when we reach not just Your glorious light but You Yourself at the end of it. I won’t fear that day because my eyes have been on You all along.
