Watching this video brings tears to my eyes...
Not tears of joy, but tears of empathy...because I can relate.
No, I'm not an olympic champion, or a track star of any kind (unless you count timing how fast I can push a double stroller up a hill to the park...if you've never tried it, you can't tell me it shouldn't be an olympic sport!)
But I am a mother of four kids who needs to be reminded, on the nights John teaches class late, or the weekends he's gone for concerts, football games with the band, or meetings and I'm left with a whole lot of me, myself and all the expectations I have to raise my kids up well...I'm never alone.
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39
So I guess the question is...do I live convinced?
Oh, the places we'll go living a life convinced of the truth that nothing can separate us from the love that can conquer any depression, any loneliness, any wayward thought or destructive pattern.
I know I'm a different wife and mother when I operate out of this conviction...I can love my husband and parent my children with the authority of heaven behind me, instead of cowering behind efforts made in my own strength.
I want that for them. My best doesn't cut it most days anymore.
I want HIS best for them. I want that for ME too.
Living a life of conviction sounds like the only way to me...
and the only way to see this happen is to pray the way Jesus told us to pray -
"Your Kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."
Heaven on earth? That sounds like His best to me...I'm convinced of that.
and the only way to see this happen is to pray the way Jesus told us to pray -
"Your Kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven."
Heaven on earth? That sounds like His best to me...I'm convinced of that.
Here is an example of where God can take a life who has chosen to take Him at His Word.
"I can honestly say with all the times that I feel pressure and feel that loneliness, I have never actually been alone."
- Bryan Clay
