the passing of time
I'm a numbers person. My mind remembers dates, events, both significant and insignificant...perhaps somehow the remembrance of things is how I deal with and process through life happenings, or something....Anyway, today marks one year since I returned from living in England. I haven't had much time lately to process and evaluate thoughts and feelings on the whole "anniversary" but part of me feels that I've wasted a year readjusting and struggling through various issues and thoughts post-missions-experience. Yet, in my deepest heart, I KNOW it hasn't been wasted. I'm beginning to see the fruit of this year, seeing relationships and connections become more significant, past experiences realized as important in what God is directing me toward now, and have little glimpses of what God is doing and what He has for me.
I read in Oswald Chambers - My Utmost for His Highest this morning, and he talked about "drudgery" and faithfulness even when things feel monotonous, routine. My life has been VERY much marked by that lately, and driving me crazy too! But God's been reminding me of His faithfulness and my need for faithfulness even when it's not exciting.
"There are times when there is no illumination and no thrill, but just the daily round, the common task. Routine is God's way of saving us between our times of inspiration...If I do my duty, not for duty's sake, but because I believe God is engineering my circumstances, then at the very point of my obedience the whole superb grace of God is mine through the Atonement."
It's something I'm trying to learn, and need to learn, but is a difficult lesson. I love excitement and adventure, but my time in England was a good bit of that, and God is saving and restoring me in this time of "drudgery" and on the other side is some other crazy time in which I'll need this in between time to regain bearings and rest. I could not have gone straight from adventures in England to adventures anywhere else, so for this time I am grateful, and am trying to value it and learn from this character-building time.
posted by FaithChristine @ 07:01
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"Your mom came back one year ago!" :-P
No, seriously...Happy anniversary my friend! I hope you had a good day of reflection and celebration.
It has been truly great to have you back for this year...struggling together to be faithful in our "drudgery"...enjoying some "together" time before God sends us out on new adventures.
I was doing some "catch up" in my Oswald Chambers reading this morning and was just pounded and struck and set-aright by so many things he said in the entries between June 11-16. Quite significantly by the very quote you included on this blog. So good to read it again here, with the added insights from how it has challenged you. It only adds to the challenge it was for me. Thanks for posting it.
Happy anniversary.
And you and me both on the numbers thing. Working late one night proofreading, my beleaguered and practically- comatose-with-sleep brain suddenly made the connection that the two reference books I was using (Webster's Collegiate and Chicago Manual of Style) had the same edition numbers as my birthday month and date: 11 and 15. True story.
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