Storms

Seeing the aftermath of hurricane Katrina in pictures and images on a page or a screen is one thing, seeing them in person is another, and seeing them through a spiritual lens is another thing altogether.

As I have stated in a previous post, God's grace shows up in ways that we often don't recognize. Too often we place I place my hope in things and people other than God. It is incredibly painful when those are taken away from us, and at the same time is the best thing that can happen for us. Does this make those experiences easy? No! But in hindsight if we are able to let go of those things and allow Jesus to be Lord in our lives again then we can take delight in those life-storms.

Caedmon's Call has a great song that was on their first independent release titled My Calm/Your Storm. If you don't own the CD, buy it! In the meantime, check out these lyrics.

A scary and dangerous prayer to pray if we want to remain in control of our lives and are willing to settle for the life that we would choose over the life that God has planned for us! But, if our desire is to live in the abundance of life that God promises, then it is a prayer that we will pray without reluctance and we will rejoice when God destroys the "comfortable", complacent life that we have created!