but now I can see my page again!! Everything is here that I had posted - that's why there's a double entry of the poem.
I am SO FAR behind - I have not yet begun to write the semon I will deliver three times on Sunday, or the 8 page paper due at 8:30 on Tuesday morning. I have been so tired this week that I took naps on Monday and Friday morning - each about two hours. I think it's all catching up to me. I finally got the letter from the diocese today - I cried a solitary tear reading it. It's really not worth crying over anymore. Now I just have a lot of anger to get through. I pray that it will not be evident in the sermon on Sunday - although it will be difficult to preach about the Wilderness when I cannot seem to glimpse civilization from here. I am very blessed to have you all accompanying me in this wilderness.
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I'm not sure it isn't the very best time to be preaching about wilderness, when we feel we really understand it. (((Elastigirl)))
(((Elastigirl)))
Amy, it is when we are in the wilderness that faith grows and we will truly find God's light for us, though it may only seem very dim at first. I have learned this, oh so slowly, as I have gone through the dreadful parts of Fred's illness. Your light is truly coming. Lots of love.
Hmmm. I seem to recall a kick-ass "wilderness" sermon at the beginning of December.
I know you'll do well again.
Wilderness sucks. Yes we grow, yes we get closer to God, but all in all I'd prefer to skip the wilderness. However, I'm learning that wilderness time comes no matter what we do to avoid it. So the question is how do we get through it and on who's strength. When I was deep in the wilderness I didn't want to hear about how great this was gonna be in the long run, how God would bring something good out of it. I didn't want platitudes. I just wanted someone to acknowledge how hard it is to be in the wilderness. To let me be miserable for a bit. Look here for a few of my thoughts on faith in the wilderness from the wilderness.
Prayers for you in the wilderness.
(((Elastigirl)))
Why do there have to be so MANY wildernesses? And, so close together?
Love you.
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