I am sitting in a small room at our local law school. I am here to serve as a volunteer to listen to students who need someone to talk to. I am a really good listener, even if I too often forget what I just heard. However, I have been here now for over three hours with no students wanting to talk. Guess they’re all doing okay.
It occurs to me that we’ve lost that sweet, irritating closeness of neighborhoods that our grandparents had. Almost no one “neighbors” anymore. We’re all too busy scrolling through people’s photo-lives on social media or just fixated on our own lives. I am not really complaining, only observing.
Maybe you feel as useless as me in this little windowless room with no one stopping by to talk. Or maybe you feel overwhelmed, disoriented by comparing yourself to others and never seeming to make the cut. There’s no remedy to keep us from feeling like we don’t belong except looking for the one we have always belonged to: our Creator. I’m not a preacher, but I know that the mindset of looking for Him when I feel lonely is the only way I’ve ever pulled myself out of that pit.
Maybe you’d like to try looking for Him too. Excellent! He’s everywhere, so wherever you look, He’ll already be there waiting for you. And unlike me, He never forgets what you’ve just said.
Hi! I started this blog over a year ago because I wanted to share what's most important to me--seeing God at work all around and inside me. Although I was raised going to church, I am not interested in religion, which is all about rules. What makes my heart beat and weep and shout hallelujah is knowing our Savior, the one who lives to make intercession for me (even me!) and to give me life more abundant. His name is Jesus, and He not only saved my life many decades ago, He keeps saving it and amazing me all the time. Relationship with the creator of the world is why I crave to write to let anyone willing to read know.
The title, So You Will Know, comes from many passages in the Bible. Frequently, God tells us that a big reason He does what He does is so we will know that He is the Lord. In fact, He tells us this more than 60 times in the Book of Ezekiel alone. He tells us this over and over, as a parent telling his kids something important, so we will understand and remember.
My prayer for this blog is that what God reveals to me about Him will intrigue you to find out more about Him yourself. Don't take my word for it. Look Him up. He's as close as your heartbeat, knows you better than you know yourself, including your worst, most hateful thoughts and deeds, the things you are ashamed of and would never tell anyone. He knows, and He loves you immeasurably anyway.
This is my little light, and I'm letting it shine.
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