"Deer!" I craned my head to catch a glimpse, as we drove the minivan toward the park. The one with the playground near the city dump. You can't see the dump around the bend. But, the Captain has packed up hazardous wastes and left them there, hoping they'd know what to do with it.
But, before the dump. Before all that trash.
Trees.
Conservation area, as it's called here.
And, then deer.
Not just a doe.
A fawn.
With slender legs and spotted side.
I spotted them. Then the children were bouncing in their seats. All grins and giggles.
Our world, our crazy, messed up, beautifully broken world is like that. The stark contrast between the innocent eyes of a fawn and the garbage dump.
And as the deer pants...
So the Psalmist says.
The deer thirsts, it's tongue hung loose.
So thirsty.
Longing,
Like us.
We are thirstier than we know.
Thirsty for a world made new.
Yearning
For death to be gone.
And war a faded memory.
Needing
To know God.
Pleading to be right with Him.
Without Him, we would wither and die.
I lay me down. Struggling with discontent. And a sadness I couldn't put my finger on. Then I remembered. The escape.
I don't have to feel this way.
Turning my thoughts from the broken things that linger. I gave thanks. (Isaiah 30:15)
Light pierced through the fog.
Heaven came in.
A life of thankfulness brings heaven here right now, in our hearts.
We notice the good. Shun the evil. We wait and pray. Our hearts are still. Residing in the green.
That God-shaped hole, giving us palpitations
Is in the shape of a cross.
Letting go of our idols, we let God fill that empty space.
Only He will suffice.
Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.
Proverbs 11:28, NIV
Seeking the Lord in thankfulnesss
Letting Him fill us
Is a glimmer of grace
A taste
Of heaven on earth.
Paradise found.
Living in the now and the eternal.
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.
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