Life Less Ordinary for the week of October 27, 2008

As I sat down to write the devo for this week, I felt God leading me to share one of my poems. It’s a story about me, and it’s a story about you. Sometimes the pain we experience in our lives keeps us from entering the deepness and richness of God.

But his love is so much more than the hurt we harbor in our hearts. His love is deeper than our view of grace, higher than this worldly place, longer than the road we travel, and wider than the gap that he himself fills. Nothing—nothing—can separate us from this incredible love.

He is calling us to a life less ordinary. It is dangerous, it is scary, it isn’t easy. But when you take his hand, he will do more than you could ever fathom.

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“And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ.”
Eph. 3:17-18

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Longing

Soft raindrops fall on the window pane
of a girl whose heart is torn
Torn between true love and fate
A soul that’s weary, down, and worn

She gave up hope so long ago
She knows not her desire;
She wants to love and laugh again
To have her heart be set on fire

To open her heart to love again
would be a Pandora’s box:
to love is to lose, to lose is to die
So she hides all the keys to all
of the locks.

She feels the Message of the Arrows
She feels the Longing deep within
A Haunting calling her to desire,
dream, and hope, and come back in

To come back to a love she knew
from the wild heart of a wild Lover;
a Lover who would heal her scars:
a promise offered by no other.

So she takes the hand of the King of the Ages
and she and her Lover begin to dance;
her God and her Savior, her Lord and Creator
has called her back into the Sacred Romance.

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