home & hebrews

Two girls home on a school day, nestled under old quilts, drinking warm herbal tea with lots of honey to soothe raw throats. This isn't quite how I envisioned the day to come, yet I exhale deep, and begin to see the blessing in it all. 

Rest. 

Calm. 

Slowing down. 

Together.

As we go about our lives, turning pages on the calendar like a gripping novel we can't put down for a second, I wonder if we begin to think that God only speaks to us in certain places, specific spaces? Are we limited by location, surroundings, company? Is time a confinement and holiness a physical space with walls and altars and spotlights? Are we bound in some contextual way that hinders our exposure to the throne room? 

never so...NEVER is it so. because of Jesus.

 So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.

Looking down at my feet, toes pressed against the coffee table, I know this is holy ground in the family room between these two bundled girls. 

He's here. 

I flip open the scriptures to Hebrews and start where I left off the morning before. The three of us, girls listening in, walk through the record of the faithful ones, recalling each individual account, imagining ourselves right there as witnesses. How great and majestic and magnificent and wondrous is our Father! We talk about faith, holding onto the promises God gives us with assurance of their fulfillment because we serve a faithful God. And how faith is a way of living in believing more than it is a defined set of beliefs. 

These two precious gift-girls fling open their hearts and wonder over a wonderful God and His wondrous ways, prompting questions too mysterious for human reasoning to satisfy. To be taken in by the wonder and anticipation of it all, I realize, is far better than having the answers. So I run where their imaginations and dreams take us, and revel at the beauty of it all being about a Savior who came to us so that we can freely come to Him, unhindered and undaunted. 

Because He loves us...really loves us. 

Fill us with a revelation of Your Love, Father, who never holds back from His children. Help us to live a life of faith, living in believing. Trusting You. You've GOT this figured out! Strengthen us to step out in joy and courage as we run after You!