Thursday, June 16, 2005
Dave,
Your return is approaching... I am greatly looking forward to reconnecting.Isn't it interesting how time stretches as we get older. It's a good thing we develop patience with age (or should, anyway) because it seems that important things can take so long in coming.
Here are some examples:
A. You and I hanging out. You take off for six months to a far off place, and I have to wait all that time for you to come back (even if for a short stay). Six months is not short, but then again, it's not long in adult time.
B. Girl. I've been waiting for this one for around 23 years. Still waiting.
C. Direction. I think this is more walked than "found." But our life directions are still things we seek, and often don't find until we look back on where our footsteps are. And then we might say, "Oh, God, that's my path."
D. Heaven... and the fulfillment of all good things. This is a life-time pursuit. Never having, yet never totally lacking. But we live in tension, with a great hope of our true country. Patience rules the day, when the day is hard and heaven sounds more and more appealing.
I suppose "wanting and getting" is not the most important operation in life. It's more walking and being. Living and loving. These kinds of things are not so concrete. Not so gratifying. More discovery oriented. The Buddhists are right in many ways, detatchment is functional for spirituality.
Your return is approaching... I am greatly looking forward to reconnecting.Isn't it interesting how time stretches as we get older. It's a good thing we develop patience with age (or should, anyway) because it seems that important things can take so long in coming.
Here are some examples:
A. You and I hanging out. You take off for six months to a far off place, and I have to wait all that time for you to come back (even if for a short stay). Six months is not short, but then again, it's not long in adult time.
B. Girl. I've been waiting for this one for around 23 years. Still waiting.
C. Direction. I think this is more walked than "found." But our life directions are still things we seek, and often don't find until we look back on where our footsteps are. And then we might say, "Oh, God, that's my path."
D. Heaven... and the fulfillment of all good things. This is a life-time pursuit. Never having, yet never totally lacking. But we live in tension, with a great hope of our true country. Patience rules the day, when the day is hard and heaven sounds more and more appealing.
I suppose "wanting and getting" is not the most important operation in life. It's more walking and being. Living and loving. These kinds of things are not so concrete. Not so gratifying. More discovery oriented. The Buddhists are right in many ways, detatchment is functional for spirituality.
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Hey there,
I really related to your post. I too feel like we are supposed to get more patient as we get older, but sometimes the waiting really seems to drag on.
I am 23 years old and still waiting for the man that God has for me. Many of my friends are engaged or married and I remain single and wonder when it is going to happen for me. However, I have also realized that dating guys just to have a boyfriend doesn't work out either. So I am continuing to wait on the Lord and trust that eventually He will give methe desires of my heart. (though it is really hard sometimes)
I am also searchg for direction. I moved away from home to teach, because that is where I felt that God was leading me. However, in the struggles that I have encountered here I have begun to question if it was truly God't will or just my own desires that I was projecting as his will for me. Now I feel led to move back, but I don't know if that is His leading, or just my desire to escape from where I am. Again, I am waiting on the Lord for guidance.
The waiting is the hardest part for me because I like having a plan and knowing where I am going and what to expect. Right now I feel like I am standing at an intersection just waiting for the arrow light to turn and show me which way to go.
I know that you don't know me from Adam, but I just wanted to let you know that I related with your post and was glad to hear someone else voice a lot of what I have been feeling lately.
God Bless You.
Katie Wardzala
I really related to your post. I too feel like we are supposed to get more patient as we get older, but sometimes the waiting really seems to drag on.
I am 23 years old and still waiting for the man that God has for me. Many of my friends are engaged or married and I remain single and wonder when it is going to happen for me. However, I have also realized that dating guys just to have a boyfriend doesn't work out either. So I am continuing to wait on the Lord and trust that eventually He will give methe desires of my heart. (though it is really hard sometimes)
I am also searchg for direction. I moved away from home to teach, because that is where I felt that God was leading me. However, in the struggles that I have encountered here I have begun to question if it was truly God't will or just my own desires that I was projecting as his will for me. Now I feel led to move back, but I don't know if that is His leading, or just my desire to escape from where I am. Again, I am waiting on the Lord for guidance.
The waiting is the hardest part for me because I like having a plan and knowing where I am going and what to expect. Right now I feel like I am standing at an intersection just waiting for the arrow light to turn and show me which way to go.
I know that you don't know me from Adam, but I just wanted to let you know that I related with your post and was glad to hear someone else voice a lot of what I have been feeling lately.
God Bless You.
Katie Wardzala
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: 11:01 PM
Jarod,
It's been awhile but I thought I'd write to say hi. As always you have some great ideas, and a great way to relate it. You've expressed some of the same things that I talk about myself. I find myself waiting for some of the same things. It's been my experiance also that direction is not something that is found some much as you often find yourself in. I keep coming back to the Isaiah passage, whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "this is the way; walk in it." We all have dreams, we all have the things that we would like to do, so maybe these are the markers along our paths. Paths that will, in our case, to the high country, if I can borrow from Lewis.
I have a blogger site, celticspirit31.blogspot.com. It's nothing special, and I write mostly to clear my mind, but every once and a while I may have something of importance.
A.T.H.
Aaron Combs
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It's been awhile but I thought I'd write to say hi. As always you have some great ideas, and a great way to relate it. You've expressed some of the same things that I talk about myself. I find myself waiting for some of the same things. It's been my experiance also that direction is not something that is found some much as you often find yourself in. I keep coming back to the Isaiah passage, whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, "this is the way; walk in it." We all have dreams, we all have the things that we would like to do, so maybe these are the markers along our paths. Paths that will, in our case, to the high country, if I can borrow from Lewis.
I have a blogger site, celticspirit31.blogspot.com. It's nothing special, and I write mostly to clear my mind, but every once and a while I may have something of importance.
A.T.H.
Aaron Combs
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