Tuesday, June 19, 2012

"joy follows suffering"

You are Sunrise. You are blue skies. How would I know the morning if I knew not midnight?

midnight I know.. I have dwelled in the darkness of loss and pain.. I "did" my time there, accepted it and allowed it to hurt...  to take it's course... but then, "your cries of love broke through and I fell in love with you once more...

you have lifted me from the pit and have shown me your mercy and love.. you have given me your peace in all circumstances... and so:

For this reason I bow my knees before the Father,  from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,  that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,   so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love,  may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,  and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. ( Ephesians 3:14-19)

to know you in your suffering oh Lord, is to know abundant life... thank you for letting me experience midnight.. so that I would recognize and appreciate the morning.. oh what a glorious one it is...
#SoliDeoGloria