Hallelujah!
I will give thanks to the LORD with my whole heart. Psalm 111:1
And I heard a few stories yesterday. From people
like me. Who are wrestling with the “Yes, but, LORD, really?” question. “This
is it, Your plan for my life?”
“Yep,” He says.
“Yep,” He says in love and power and knowingness.
And in response, I kneel down and give thanks.
With a whole heart.
And then, (the hard part for me) I stand up and
shout and sing, “Hallelujah.” With my whole heart.
I shall
always wait in patience, and shall praise you more and more. Psalm 71:14
Prayer is far from being sweet and
easy. Being the expression of our greatest love, it does not keep pain away
from us. Instead, it makes us suffer more since our love for God is a love for
a suffering God and our entering into God’s intimacy is an entering into the
intimacy where all of human suffering is embraced in divine compassion. To the
degree that our prayer has become the prayer of our heart we will love more and
suffer more, we will see more light and more darkness, more grace and more sin,
more of God and more of humanity. To the degree that we have descended into our
heart and reached out to God from there, solitude can speak to solitude, deep
to deep, and heart to heart. It is there where love and pain are found
together. Henri
Nouwen, Reaching Out
Jesus
prayed, saying I have made your name known to them and will continue to make it
known so that the love with which you loved me may be in them, and so that I
may be in them.’ John 17:26
May
I know His love with my whole heart.
And
I chose I will sing of the mercies of the
LORD forever, I will sing over and over as I watched the brilliant morning
star fade slowly into the dawning east. And even if I can no longer see its
pulsing glory, it is there.
May
I know His love with my whole heart.
He in me and I in Him.
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