Being Saved
Posted on January 31, 2012 by Karen Jones
It's a present continuous idea - being saved. Working out your salvation with fear and trembling. Rising to newness of life every morning. Choosing life in all its fulness rather than death. Living in the Presence - aware of Him - thankful to Him - worship, song, prayer, resisting temptations to sate desires outside of the boundary lines that have fallen in pleasant places.
Pleasant places - pleasant because thanks has been given there. Worship has been expressed. Trust has been exercised. Even the darkness will not be dark to You - the night will shine like the day.
Thank You for the twenty-three years with my husband, the twenty years with my daughter, the two years apart and the eighteen years together. Thank you for the nine months with my first son and the sixteen years with my second son.
Thank you for last year. Bitter-sweet. For my job loss - the chance to live by faith again - the freedom to be creative; for my father-in-law; for my mother-in-law; for my sons foot; my sisters kidney; my ankle, my thigh and my belly - the time of lying still, of not eating, of no words, of rest and restoration, of books and thoughts and images and sisters, parents, husband who cared.
And today thank You for hope, for dreams yet unfulfilled, nosing their way to the surface from their seedbed. Thank You for three years of creative process. Thank You for other Creatives, other Venturers. Thank You for today.














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