I did. About 16 months ago. This event, which I have briefly wrote about prior, took me from weak to strong. This event, brought life to my life. This event, hasn't stopped bringing information my way to enhance the meaning or purpose of my life here. It's strong. Its fierce. Its a mess. Its lovely.
This weekend was one of those lovely moments. The moment when information just flowed. I spent two hours on Friday night and another few hours this morning at Woodmen Valley Church listening to Rebekah Lyons and WOW. . Such a blessing to sit with friends and listen to her.
SURRENDER
"Surrender changes everything
but we can't choose surrender.
It chooses us.
It finds us and meets us in our pain.
When we are at our lowest point.
Our weariness. Our longing.
It enters in when we have run out of our own strength.
When we start to believe that things
may never actually change.
That our lives don't really matter...
and we break.
How could it be?
How could a good God create
a life that doesn't matter?
So we cry out, and we ask for rescue
Because somewhere deep down we know
we are missing it.
Our own attempts have failed us.
This life we have orchestrated falls flat
and leaves us lying in a corner,
huddles in despair in those dark hours
of the early morning.
Then we see it. The crack of sunrise.
Just a glow on the horizon.
Pink and orange starting to rise and
create a hue that colors the sky.
It's God whispering: I am here. I am true.
I am strength.
I love you as you are. Broken and
fragmented. Let me carry you.
Let me show you a life never dreamed
or imagined.
Let me take you on a journey so marvelous
you point back to Me.
Let Me rename you.
Let Me bring you back to your truest self.
The way I ordered you from the beginning
All this, for My glory."
~Rebekah Lyons