My desk,
in the Cozy Cottage,
hanging with mr. murdoch,
and his very true words,
alone, but not lonely.
Tomorrow is time to go. It's time to say goodbye to home for awhile, and go home. First, how lovely is it that I can call two places my home? And second, how lovely that the next few weeks will (hopefully) be spend restfully, and reflectively. I am making a promise to myself, that I will use this time intentionally. That I won't let that time go to waste, a chunk of time that couldn't have been given to me at a more perfect moment. And I'm thankful for a lot of things. I'm thankful for the past months I have spent here, the memories and the struggles and the learned things. But I'm also thankful to be able to just breathe for a little while, which is something I haven't allowed myself to do in quite a while.
I think what I've been learning is how, throughout the things that have been hard for me, and I have let people and God down, he remains faithful. It hit me today, when Paul speaks truth to the Romans, saying that
our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God.
Woah. And it's true, isn't it? When I am faithless, he remains faithful. This isn't some backwards way of justifying doing wrong- merely a beautiful picture of the ways that, throughout all things, God is greater. He's greater than our hearts, than our mistakes, than our triumphs, than our selfishness, than our heartache- he's greater than it all. And I think when we realize this, when we recognize that we can't do it on our own, I think that's when we experience real freedom. And I think that's really beautiful.
in the Cozy Cottage,
hanging with mr. murdoch,
and his very true words,
alone, but not lonely.
Tomorrow is time to go. It's time to say goodbye to home for awhile, and go home. First, how lovely is it that I can call two places my home? And second, how lovely that the next few weeks will (hopefully) be spend restfully, and reflectively. I am making a promise to myself, that I will use this time intentionally. That I won't let that time go to waste, a chunk of time that couldn't have been given to me at a more perfect moment. And I'm thankful for a lot of things. I'm thankful for the past months I have spent here, the memories and the struggles and the learned things. But I'm also thankful to be able to just breathe for a little while, which is something I haven't allowed myself to do in quite a while.
I think what I've been learning is how, throughout the things that have been hard for me, and I have let people and God down, he remains faithful. It hit me today, when Paul speaks truth to the Romans, saying that
our unrighteousness serves to show the righteousness of God.
Woah. And it's true, isn't it? When I am faithless, he remains faithful. This isn't some backwards way of justifying doing wrong- merely a beautiful picture of the ways that, throughout all things, God is greater. He's greater than our hearts, than our mistakes, than our triumphs, than our selfishness, than our heartache- he's greater than it all. And I think when we realize this, when we recognize that we can't do it on our own, I think that's when we experience real freedom. And I think that's really beautiful.