“Spiritual Rhythm:
In the days of raising small children, our spiritual life can seem out of rhythm.

My relationship with God does not always provide peace and assurance. There are other oh-so-familiar moments. Like the four-and-a-half-year wait to adopt a baby. Or the dark season of financial need. And oh, how I remember wondering where God had gone during my never-ending-mother-of-preschoolers days of sleeplessness, potty training and not enough of me. I’m bothered by God’s apparent inactivity in my days. The few quiet seasons of spirituality are tough to trust. I don’t like them.

Why should I? I live in a results-oriented world where value is assigned to the tangible, proven, completed, and graded entities. Slow, silent, beneath the surface, hard to measure – these aspects hold little interest – much less respect – for the average human.

The writer of the book of Ecclesiastes says, “There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under heaven.” Live and die. Weep and laugh. Mourn and dance. Tear and mend. Push and pull. Life moves in rhythm. God made it that way. Why should our relationship with him be any different?

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven. Dear Lord, give us eyes to see your coming and going, ears to hear your voice and your silence, hands to hold your presence and your absence, and faith to trust your unchanging nature in all seasons.” MomSense Radio 3/18/04

++Lord… give us eyes to see your coming and goind, ears to hear your voice and your silence, hands to hold your presence and your absence, and faith to trust in your unchanging nature in ALL seasons!!! Amen!++

I need to revisit that often….
smiles…