My heart lies in a place unknown.
Chasing Francis has been a challenging book for me. Wonderfully written and brilliantly told the story unfolds in a majestic challenge to the Christian who has forgotten the way is Jesus. As mentioned in an earlier post the book explores pilgrimage. As the main character, Chase, is coming to the end of his pilgrimage he tells his guide that he must leave in two days. In response his guide says,
"Let's make them beautiful."
These four words brought me to tears. I had forgotten what it is like to call a day beautiful. I used to drive to work singing, "This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it." I lost something of this joy recently. It ebbed away as I carried on working in my own strength, trusting to my own skills and my own knowledge. Instead, I need to turn to Christ, to kneel at his feet and find joy in supplication once more. I need to remember that each day can be beautiful, that each moment is as beautiful as I make it. As I step into tomorrow and the day after I am thinking to myself, "Let's make them beautiful."
2 comments:
Jonny you are amazing!!! I want to be like you! Can I borrow that book after you have finished? Keep going, keep striving, keep looking to Him. Kneel at His feet for He is our King. But accept His limitless love too, the Father's love, submerge yourself in it, letting go of all your worries and opening yourself to be filled with His love. He wants to fill you with joy, so that it overflows. It will, I can feel it already.
Grace, be like you. Grace is who God made you and who you should be.
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