Be still my Soul!

Sometimes I wish I had a wilderness to retreat to when ever I needed to. But I find it increasingly difficult to justify a hunt for such a wilderness. My heart misses the wild and the untamed adventure. I miss the adventure into the uncharted and the dangerous. I can't lie about my secret longings for it, but I know in the end my patience will be rewarded even if it isn't in the way I would want it now. That Is the funny thing about life, no matter how much you feel a desire for something you can't be sure you know the most wise way to satisfy the desire. And that is even assuming that the desire is an appropriate one in the first place.

We are in the trenches of life and are by own own nature incapable of seeing the bigger picture. its only through the peace of Christ which surpasses all else that we can transcend our earthly discontentment (Philippians 4:7). That is really churchy and probably will turn some people off. but it is the truth, and of this I am sure. the Gospel has a hostile disposition toward all that is of the world, and the world is hostile toward the Gospel. So I can't speak this truth above and expect it to be taken well by those who don't know the Gospel, who don't know of this indescribable peace of which I speak.

We with in the fellowship of Christ's love have such great security in what we have been promised. I and most everyone else tend to forget this promise and it peace. I pray that the Lord would be kind and speak to my heart and reprove me in a way that I would be able to more fully rest in his promise. I know I have a long way to go before I'm done but I will be glad in the journey. What I have now is way more than enough for me.This leads me to "dangerous" and "radical" ideas about my life here on this crazy cool place. And that makes me smile :)