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I've been thinking a lot about our time away and specifically about our "spiritual pilgrimage" in Turkey and then Israel.
Someone asked me if I was excited yet and my immediate answer was no, not yet. But the more I ponder on the question the more I realize that I am VERY excited about the trip, well, not so much about the trip itself but what I expect to find/happen on the trip.
You see, I'm expecting to run headlong into the Arms of my Father, and that really excites me very much!
For too long I have lived in the shed out back of Father's house. Since my brush with death last year I have doubted God's goodness for me. You see, it was hard for me to understand why I had to go through such a tough time. But over the months I have pondered this dilemma and come to realize that "God is good all the time", it's me who is out of whack, dysfunctional, sinful; but God still loves me even though I am like this!
Fortunately I recently moved back home, welcomed with open arms by my gracious Father. Just writing that puts a smile on my embarrassed face.
Coming home has been extraordinary, I have had a hunger for His word like never before, I love being with Him, in fact everything about him. But I realize that there are deeper depths, more levels of richness in Him to go to, and I am longing for that, well not that but more and more of Him!
So this pilgrimage will be a time of diving into Him, of finding more of Him in the places He once walked as a man and worked by His Holy Spirit.
I feel very much like the song says, not too sure about who the writer is, but "I'm desperate for God", for more of Him, and this pilgrimage is but a part of that journey and my desire.
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