WOYWW: We Have Wings!

What's on my workdesk?

I've been commissioned to do a painting 

of the Holy Family.

I didn't start it for a while and 

I keep stopping and starting, even now.

Commissions are difficult,

and I always say,

"I'll make it, but you don't have to get it!"

 You might have thought, 'where's her junk?'

This time I didn't shove it in a bag under my desk,

but put it on the sides.

 On top of my drawers...

 a pile near my laptop...

 ...even stuff on top of my lamp base!

"Whoever does not carry his own cross 

and come after me cannot be my disciple." Luke 14:27

Cross. Even the word scares me. 

Instead of looking at the "crosses" in our life as misfortunes, 

with dread, alarm, resignation, 

could we ever be joyful about them, excited even? 

"I've got the Big C!!! Be happy for me!!!" 

Probably not. 

Unless we really embrace the fact 

that God's love for us will never allow 

anything remotely bad for us. 

Suffering is God's opportunity in disguise.

"Be like a bird that, halting in its flight

Rests on a bough too slight,

And feeling it give way beneath him SINGS,

Knowing HE HATH WINGS!"

(Anon)

Carrying our cross is an opportunity to discover our wings!

"Come, everything is now ready." Luke 14:17

This is what God has been saying to us 

ever since Jesus died on the cross. 

"Come, everything is ready. It is finished." 

Hopefully, we are not too busy, like the guests 

invited to the King's banquet in Luke 14. 

One by one they had excused themselves! 

They were all too preoccupied taking care of things and people 

God had given them as blessings- 

their businesses, their properties, their families. 

Let's not wait until things and people 

are taken away from us to enjoy God's invitation to us! 

What is it that keeps us from 

accepting God's invitation to spend time with Him?

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Creative Things, Bloom! Soul Survival

 

Blessings!

Patsy