That you may be filled
to the measure of
all the fullness of God.
That you may know this love
that surpasses
knowledge.
That you may have power to grasp
how wide and long
and high and deep is the love of Christ.
That you may be rooted and established
in love.
That Christ may dwell in your hearts
through faith.
That he may strengthen you
With power
through His Spirit
in your inner
being
from the abundance
of His glorious riches.
I kneel before the Father.
For this reason.
Eph 3:16-17
December and January are uniquely difficult in our Fort
Portal lives. There is a very particular press of some sort of weighty
something. A vague type of heaviness that settles all over our town and in our
home.
Perhaps it is the season’s heat and dry air that slows us
all down and surrounds us with dreary and mundane. We love our rainy cool in
this lovely mountain town. We’ve been weeks without moisture from the sky.
I just know that our daily exercise of forward
motion—school, meals, work, writing and rest—those regular things have required
far more energy and gumption to get started and completed.
It’s worse when sickness accompanies this dry time. And it
has. A physical malaise that has stuck with our family rotating resting places
for far too long it seems.
Perhaps some of the hardest work we (all of us) do. Keeping.
And staying. And holding on. And discovering the next optimistic forward step.
When all around us is hot and dry and heavy and slow. (Or frozen and cold and paralyzed with ice.)
For this reason…
We press on.
Seeking.
And from his abundance we receive.
Always enough.
Steady on.
