I saw something on Facebook last week and it stuck with me.
God is spacious.
Of course, I can’t find it again to give credit or ask about sharing it. There was a nice generic picture, and the words were briefly along these lines: God knows we can’t figure it all out at once, that we can catch on to only so much at a time. And He knows how to help us get from lesson to necessary lesson, help us connect the dots and get the salient points through our slow and independent skulls.
We’re so hard on ourselves for not getting it right. But God knows how limited our capacity is. He knows how much we long to pierce the veil we just can’t see through right now. He’s not perturbed by all the pieces that don’t look like they’ll ever fit together, and He will go serenely on leading us to and through the next whatever it needs to be.
It’s been a hard couple weeks. The company has moved from four kitchen tables into one office space, which we have really needed, and it’s already been a really good move. But my system is in shock--being out of the house everyday, joining the daily commute, putting on public-appropriate clothes every morning, all these people... I don’t feel near ready.
It’s been a classroom of priorities and motives and what ready looks and feels like. The daily question is what do I do until I feel ready? What is firm enough for me to put my feet on while I reach to do what the day has presented?
I’m finding it a relief to think of God as spacious. Spacious enough hold all my stressed out mess. Spacious enough to fit Himself into the picture with me, which is what I need above all—that He is with me.
May you find Him to be so as well.
Toward the promise,
Lana
188
To begin properly
find a crack
In what it matters not
As long as there is a
bit of dirt
At the bottom
Then
Make a place
Put down roots
Turn your face to the sky
And remember
for best results
Take a friend
9-30-22
Here’s the link to last week’s issue Why I talk to God
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That's really good that your company moved to a better place for business. Sorry about not being able to work in you PJ's. Also the article that God is Spacious. That is so wonderful for us to realize that. And you poem is really good. I especially like it.