The Fullest Life

  Good evening ladies!

   I am getting this done on time, Praise God! :)  So here is the post for Chapter 6. It was another interesting one, especially with the story of her trying to basically touch the moon. It sounds silly, but I imagine the excitement, the joy, the fulfillment she must have felt when doing that - the closeness of God in those moments.  When do I get excited about something like that?  Do I run outside to check out the sunset or to see one of His creatures?  I don't say this to compare us with her, but the meaning behind it, the experience she had with God in that moment in the wheat field. Something to think about.

  This kind of goes along with her thoughts of how the fullest life brings us out of the darkest moments and emptiness. I truly want that - to bring myself out of this joyless ungrateful pit that I have been in and latch on to the joy that God has already given me! Given you. It's ours my dears for the taking, from Christ above. He wants us to be grateful and full of life!

   The whole earth is full of His glory. Indeed it is! Just seeing that while doing the incline today was awesome. To be outside, in His creation, getting some exercise and fresh air - truly a beautiful thing. AND in gorgeous spring-like weather- a true blessing!  I challenge us ladies to grasp ahold of even the smallest of things and thank Him for those very things. Anywhere is a start, and a start is much better then nothing.

  Beauty. It requires no justification,no explanation; it simply is and transcends. Every moment I live, I live bowed to something. And If I don't see God, I'll bow down before something else. True that. Mine would be my relationship with Chris, or my business, or perhaps my feelings of sadness and incompleteness. For me it just depends on the hour or day. What are you bowing down to, instead of Jesus?  " The life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration. It does not grow elsewhere."

  On page 107 she talks about : What do you want? I can't tell you how much I have asked myself that very question lately. It sounds like it would be a very easy question, but honestly it's like one of the hardest.  Her realization was: more of the God-glory. I am famished for His peace, in all completeness, no matter of my circumstances. What is yours? 


 "Living in His presence is fullness of joy - and seeing shows the way in. The glory of God is the human being fully alive and the life of the human consists of beholding God. Praying with eyes wide open is the only way to pray with out ceasing."  How can I be praying for you today? 


 Joy is God's life. Do we each yearn for it to ours as well?  I will leave you with this quote from J.I.Packer : "The life of true holiness is rooted in the soil of awed adoration. It does not grow elsewhere."

   Humbled and loved,
     Miranda