Ponderings

Jesus observed, “Without me you can do nothing”. Yet we act, for the most part, as though without us God can do nothing. We think we have to make Christmas come, which is to say we think we have to bring about the redemption of the universe on our own. When all God needs is a willing womb, a place of safety, nourishment, and love. “Oh, but nothing will get done,” you say. “If I don’t do it, Christmas won’t happen.”
This comment from Daily Dig is nagging me, or rather Spirito Santo is whispering to me over and over in this Season about what is being birthed in it, the redeeming threads that are being woven in that process and how all this takes place in the sanctuary and nurturing of sacred space. I speak of redeeming threads often because so many tattered threads are being placed in a tapestry of the soul and the questions of “why” are being answered.

“There is nothing You are unable to tackle” Matthew 17:20

Sacred Space gave me the challenge this week of what God could make of me if I abandon myself into His hand, so I can be formed by grace. The question is am I willing to ask for grace, and to trust myself totally into Abba’s love? It is the request to exchange my self-sufficiency (be childlike) and abandon myself to Yeshua who is, with grace, showing me how to trust intimacy. Yeshua came as a baby and babies are easy to love. But He came to show us how to fall in love with life. Only as I let go and realize I need His partnership, and trust that there is nothing Abba will not do in this courtship, am I able to celebrate authentically and deeply from my heart and soul. I do not have to bring about my own redemption – it has all been done. Just trust the life giving process.