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hide. {five minute friday}

24 Friday Apr 2015

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I want to hide. Especially today. Have you ever had those days ?

My daughter is throwing up and as I was cleaning it up (oh God) I wanted to hide somewhere. So I went back to bed and hid under the covers and prayed to not throw up.

I have so many things to do, but just want to hide in my coffee cup. Really, I want to dive right in that brown glorious liquid.

I feel friendships changing, for the better and for the worse and it makes me want to hide to not face the challenges of either.

I definitely want to hide from the dirty ceiling fans. The dishes. The un-swept carpet and un-made beds.

I want to hide from those things that I know I should do, but just don’t want to do.

hideBut we can’t hide.

There is nowhere to go !

Really, where can we ever go that is really hidden.

Yet that very thought gives me hope in my very worn out soul.

I can go no where from His presence that He isn’t there. He tells me that even my darkness is light to Him.

Even in these moments where I think my inner most thoughts are hidden, He knows. And He loves me in spite of it all

Hide means to put out of sight and to try to conceal something from others sight, but with our God, there is never a time that anything is hidden.

We are literally hidden in plain sight.

But this is a good thing. We have a God who loves us beyond our comprehension. So even in these moments where things make me feel like hiding, I can hide in His arms.

His arms are the hidden treasure.

gather. {five minute Friday}

06 Friday Mar 2015

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gather. let’s all gather together. gather ’round. gather

I think of many things with the word gather and all kinds of pictures of people sitting at coffee shops, laughing. People gathered around the holiday table. And more pictures of faces gathered around in worship, in prayer and friendship.

We also see people gathered around hospital beds, or bedrooms of those we love who are hurting and healing.

This is where I find my gathering these days.

In both places.

I am gathered around my daughter and son-in-law,  who are going through a long recovery from a motor cross accident, leaving my son with two crushed knees.

I am gathered around my dad, with my brothers and family as we make decisions regarding heart surgery.

I am gathered around friends and family who are also going through the ringer right now

I am gathered around my church family, who love, support and encourage me and my family through all of this craziness.

Mostly I am gathered around the loving arms of God’s grace that is keeping me standing in the storm.

Is anyone else seeing or having the l – o – n – g – e – s – t  winter ever ? yesh !

I would not know how to survive without the gathering of God.

We need to be gathered with family and friends – we need those hugs and loves

But we mostly need the gathering of God

He gathers me together in the inner most parts

He gathers my tears in a bottle

He gathers his strength and pours it into me

He gathers his grace and washed me with it daily

He gathers me with reckless abandon and lavishes his love on and in me, so that I can gather around those who need more than I do

Let Him gather you today –