This is the study I'm working on right now, on my own. Well, Beth is there too. It was never my plan to do it on my own, but that's how it is. Right now I'm learning a hard thing. It may lead to blood sweating from my brow, but I'm learning to abide completely. If I pray, Lord make me like you, or Lord, I want to love you with all of my heart, mind, soul...... What does that look like to you? Can you envision it, are you feeling it? Beyond feeling, am I seeing it? What do you see?
What I'm growing and yielding to is to that of the story of the wildflowers in Hind's Feet.And I have already shared it before
here Only with Gods love can I really love others, because I am ill with sin, I do think about myself, it's hard to put myself out there.
"To offer oneself so sweetly, and confidently and willingly, Just as though they sang a joyous little song to themselves, that it is so happy to love, even though one is not loved in return."
The book goes on to say FEW understand. 2 Timothy 3:2 and Philippians 2:20, Many a quiet, ordinary, and hidden life, unknown to the world, is a veritable garden in which Love's flowers and fruits have come to such perfection that it is a place of delight where the King of Love himself walks and rejoices with this friends. Some of my servants have indeed won great visible victories and are rightly loved and reverenced by other men, but always their greatest victories are like the wild flowers, those which no one knows about. Learn this lesson now, and when you get to the steep places of the mountains it will comfort you.
Writing this is not joyless, my joy comes from not enduring alone.
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