Welcome to Tam’s Trench Truth
and Coffee Hour @ Chicklit Power and Trench Classes United.
Today I went for a short walk
in a park and ended up lying down under a tree. Since I was a child I have
loved to do this, lie there still, looking up, watching as the wind blows the
leaves and branches. I have always found it most relaxing. Today as I laid
there looking up, I thought of this invisible force and how it's possible that
something you can't see can have so much power. Man has long used the wind to
his advantage to hoist the sails and to move across the ocean. To use wind to
grind grain and pump water. It’s used to drain the wetlands and make room for
agriculture. For so long, man has harnessed the wind and used its power all
without ever witnessing its physical form. Still we believe in it. We cannot
direct the wind, but we can surely direct our sails and our rudders to work
with the wind to move toward a destination of our choosing.
I find myself always
wondering about God and His will. Wondering about the Holy Spirit and how it
all comes to fruition. Are we not all part of God's wind and God's power? Can
we not fill the sails of other's reaching out for love? You see, I think God's
wind and power also takes no physical form, yet we can see its power all around
us. If love is the wind and we are the power that feeds it, why do we not push
to spread its power more in this world? Might I suggest that so many of us get
caught up with our own issues and problems that we forget to take the time to
be empathetic toward others?
We should not only
project this wind of love but also harness it. Sometimes we give so much of
ourselves we forget to let love in. Perhaps we justify blocking love out
because we are busy giving it, and still not absorbing it.
I want to love but I
always want to be loved. I admit that I think I might have come into a place in
my life where I have become tainted, where I feel the need to block love... maybe
from small places, but nonetheless shut it out, especially considering the
people I wanted it the most from refused to give it.
Yes, as I lay there, I
felt God in the trees blowing through. I’d like to think so, that God has my
back in such simple ways, It begs this question: Why do we see the dramatic
loss of love before we see the calming love in the clouds?
May we tune our eyes
to not only observe, but feel these clouds that fly by so effortlessly.
Let's take the time to take in the trees, harness the wind, feel the
clouds, to believe in its power. It's all God's love.
To help you do that,
plan on joining us for A Night of Purpose, an evening sure to answer questions,
give you great information and meet you right where you are!
Much love everyone,
~John
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