I think what excites me the most about One Thousand Gifts, this new book I’m reading is that it’s speaking for me the whispers I have been hearing from my Shepherd for about a decade. This girl across the planet has unknowingly put pen to paper the thoughts I have felt sweeping my soul for some years. Her story awakens the sleeping giantess in me, and I hope to keep it awake through real encounters with these words, not just a stirring of sorts as the words breeze by, but a true awakening of my soul to the truths that they manifest. Fully awake. Fully alive. Whole and complete, not lacking anything. Living with plenty and living in want, content. This sense of gratitude, the joyful grace of gratitude. Eucharisteo is putting a word to the unlocking of the longing deep in the wells of my heart. When the pettiness of daily concerns robs me of my inheritance of joy, that’s when I know I’ve lost the key. But this “eucharisteo,” this gratitude toward the Lord Almighty, will be the essence of keeping my eyes locked on Him, the sustenance of peace. His all-satisfying, never-ending, all-encompassing salvation for today and eternity.
I often look at the tiny wonders and awes in life, and I hardly ever fully let them be born, I realize. Gazing on one for a minute, I sense the joy, and then move on all too quickly, until the next one brightens up my mind for a moment. How I long to live in one steady stream of continuously flowing gratitude of heart. Where I gaze into the beauty and stillness of this life and world, breathe it in, and exhale His Presence in the midst of perfection unseen to the fleshly eye.
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