Scattered.

The Isaiah passage today (49:7-13) didn't speak to me. It was about the new covenant with God and His people. The BSF question asks, "How are you related to this covenant?" I imagine I'm related because all who believe in Jesus and who ask for forgiveness will be restored. Sometimes the constant drumming of this message can render it meaningless.

I go back to the passage. Verse 13 says the Lord "will have compassion on his afflicted ones." In other words, by sending Jesus.

Lord, I am dealing with play dates and summer planning and Lily's classmates (gymnastics? VBS?) and on and on. I can hardly settle my mind on You. You are the most relevant thing--the center of my life. And yet...it is so difficult to bring a 2000+ old text into the daily nonsense I'm enmeshed in. 


You say, "the Lord will have compassion on his afflicted ones." This is your message to me today, even as I'm chomping at the bit to leave you, to get up from this computer and go on my way. You have compassion on me.


I'm sorry I'm so angry about Easter. You are the central focus of Easter. Because of Easter, I will never be (eternally) separated from my family. I can celebrate that day with joy, because that's what it's about. Family. This world is so frustrating. But that's what faith is about--seeing through the frustrating things to what's really going on. You are always doing a new thing.


Thank you for your peace.


I pray for Sara. I pray for direction in my writing. I pray that You will direct me in how to be the wife I'm supposed to be.


In Your son's name I pray.
Amen