BY FAITH WE MOVE

(This week Dani started working and Bruce left on a trip.  It was a certain act of faith to ¨move on¨ despite the current discouraging, unchanging circumstances of Jenna´s health.  We pray He will bless it.)

By faith we move towards a new season.

Before we see any iota of improvement,

with emotion and a certain uneasiness,

we take a step.

Will He bless it?

Is He watching?

Has He been waiting for this?

And could it be that she needs

to see our faith, our movement, our baby steps,

in order to take heart & make her own?

Oh please let it be so.

Make us faithful.

Strengthen our bodies.

Give us trusting hearts.

Expand our capacity to believe.

Jesus said, ¨I´m going to wake Lazarus up.¨

I heard Him say it, I read it.

And it was for her...

He is coming!

Coming to wake up her GI system.

Jesus said, ¨Get up, take your mat and go home.¨

He said this to the paralytic when he saw the faith of his friends

when they brought him to Jesus.

This is for her.

Many friends have carried her with faith -

And He sees it.

Jesus said, ¨I will build you with stones of turquoise,

your foundations with sapphires.¨

He has promised a time of rebuilding.

This is hers.

Her covenant truth with Him.

He will do it.

Oh please make her well enough 

that she can hear You through the pain,

trust You in this darkness,

receive in spite of the confusion,

respond in spite of the profound weariness.

Come, Lord Jesus.

Please come to her.

By faith we move towards a new season.

Before we see any iota of improvement,

with emotion and a certain uneasiness,

we take a step.

¨Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue.  Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them.  And the point is, to live everything.  Live the questions now.  Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.¨ 

By Rainer Maria Rilke, German poet

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