Keeping it simple...

KEEPING IT SIMPLE...

The art of praying, as we grow, is really the art of learning to waste time gracefully—to be simply the clay in the hands of the potter. This may sound easy—too easy to be true—but it is really the most difficult thing we ever learn to do.... This is the real reason why so few of us ever come, in this life, to the full experience of God’s love for us. - Thomas H. Green
from When the Well Runs Dry

When I read that this morning it struck a chord within me, and I stand in awe of how life all fits together. Yesterday I was crying out desperately for God to be as real to me as a boyfriend or a husband, to be felt like a person, and disappointed that it wasn't happening. Today I realize if He's within me, that's more than any boyfriend or husband can experience, as they cannot jump inside my skin and live with me, but He can. I want to get that!!!

I'm also finding out like the quote says that the hardest thing for us to do is to keep life simple...to be in His hands, to love Him, to say Yes, to trust that if He said it, it's so, and to leave it at that. I suffer not understanding how He can love me, fearing that He'll walk away at some point after throwing up His hands in disgust as I got in another mess...BUT HE DOESN'T!!! He will never leave me nor forsake me, and I'm going to keep it simple...if He said it, it's true. And when I start to doubt, I will repeat His words again and again until I know them.

I'm going to keep it simple!!