Good Morning!
As I wake up on the day after celebrating my birthday with my family, I am reminded of how wonderful it is to be SEEN. My amazing husband took us to a wonderful restaurant and had the kids go around the table at dinner and share what they loved about “Mom.” It filled my heart. It was good to feel celebrated and seen. It was good for a window of time to not be running around packing snacks for kids, filling water bottles, getting breakfast, signing papers, but a window when they paused to love mom, to love me. To hear the words made me realize, all my efforts each day have not gone unnoticed. My love shown to my family is seen, through the dinners before youth group with hungry friends filling the kitchen, the running the forgotten item to school, the “10-40 minutes lying in my sons bed talking about his day.” I feel joy.
This morning, after getting my coffee, worship music softly playing in the background, I began my morning routine of having my quiet time. I read through my Bible reading for today (I’m reading through the Bible this year) and began to journal. Honestly, I was busted. I filled the page with all the ways I had felt seen and appreciated. I was thanking the Lord for the days of celebration. Then, just like that I jumped into “business” with the Lord. Saying, “OK, we need to figure out this, and we need to make a decision on that.” And I was caught in my tracks.
I felt like the Holy Spirit was reminding me that I was created in His image, I am how am, because I am created in HIS image.
He likes to be SEEN.
He likes to be CELEBRATED.
He likes to be ACKNOWLEDGED for all HE does.
He likes to just SIT, and listen to me share what I love about Him.
He likes the intimacy, when it is not only about answering my questions, and checking a box of figuring something out.
He brought me back to a time when I came to my quiet time in to morning, not looking or asking, but digging in to His Word. Searching out scripture, drawing closer into His presence because I was drawing closer into His Word.
So this morning, as I write this first post in 7 years, I want to encourage you, how I was encouraged. Press in. Seek fellowship. Draw near to Him and He will draw near to you. How do we hear His Voice? Being in His Word.
”My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:“
John 10:27 KJV