This morning half way through my shower I realized I no longer had a blue cord on my wrist. My first thought was..."awesome, that thing was getting scraggly looking and I'm glad to be rid of it!" As if almost within the very same thought I grieved over the loss of my scraggly blue cord! I realized that I would be different than the rest of the body. I would no longer bare the mark that the blue cord represented...
That of a group waiting together. A select group with a specific focus. Waiting together on Him.
It reminded me of a moment in Kid's Church yesterday. We reviewed our ever growing Hebrew vocabulary with our visitor "Little Zack". Specifically the word "B'RIT". In Eli's words "it means circle" (he's so smart)! He's so correct also. It means circle or cut if I remember correctly (Rochelle taught that word). Think of a circle, cut, or covenant as a way of selecting something. He has selected us ECF!
After my shower I searched my bed for that scraggly blue cord and was relieved to find it hidden in the bedding. The next time I look at it I won't think of it as an eye sore but as a reminder of ECF's task to wait on Him together. I'll be reminded to practice perseverance and to trust in Him together with you all as people selected (circled) scraggly or not. Once more it echo's in my soul: Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary Gal 6:9
I'll continue to wait comforted in the knowledge that He's given me a family to wait with!
2 comments:
Maybe we're all due for a re-tying...
Or... maybe He's telling us something about the time of waiting coming to an end?? Your cord getting lost, Garrett having his cut accidentally...
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