“For the first time in my life I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that Love is the ultimate and highest goal to which man can aspire. Then I grasped the meaning of the greatest secret that human poetry and human thought and belief have to impart: The salvation of man is through love and in love.”
ZECHARIAH 4-6
JOURNAL
Time keeps moving forward, day after day. As I look back over this past year, I know the past is already written into the story of my life. I cannot go back and change it, but I have been given the gift of today. And today is full of opportunity. The opportunity to love. To create. To surrender what I am and what I have to God, trusting that He can do something beautiful with it.
I think of Viktor Frankl and what he discovered in the midst of one of the worst hells on earth. Stripped of everything in a German concentration camp. Family gone. Identity erased. Future uncertain. And yet, in the center of that darkness, he came to see that love was not only the highest human calling, but also the pathway to meaning itself. Even when everything else had been taken, he still had the freedom to choose love. To offer himself. To care. To hope. And from that surrender came a deep, unshakeable purpose.
If God could bring that kind of revelation from such horror, then how much more can He work through the ordinary moments of my life. My efforts. My struggles. My hopes. My small acts of obedience. When I offer them back to Him, He has a way of weaving them into something far greater than I could ever create alone. That is the real magic of life. Not that I control outcomes, but that God transforms offerings into grace.
So today I want to live as someone who participates in what God is doing. Someone who creates. Someone who loves courageously. Someone who surrenders the results and simply trusts God with the story. Because life is a gift, and it becomes richest when I stop clinging and start offering.
Thank you Father for another day to step into Your work. Thank you for letting me be part of Your world, Your people, and Your unfolding redemption. I cannot wait to see what You do with the offering of my imperfect but willing heart.
What a life. What a world. What amazing grace.
Time keeps moving forward, day after day. As I look back over this past year, I know the past is already written into the story of my life. I cannot go back and change it, but I have been given the gift of today. And today is full of opportunity. The opportunity to love. To create. To surrender what I am and what I have to God, trusting that He can do something beautiful with it.
I think of Viktor Frankl and what he discovered in the midst of one of the worst hells on earth. Stripped of everything in a German concentration camp. Family gone. Identity erased. Future uncertain. And yet, in the center of that darkness, he came to see that love was not only the highest human calling, but also the pathway to meaning itself. Even when everything else had been taken, he still had the freedom to choose love. To offer himself. To care. To hope. And from that surrender came a deep, unshakeable purpose.
If God could bring that kind of revelation from such horror, then how much more can He work through the ordinary moments of my life. My efforts. My struggles. My hopes. My small acts of obedience. When I offer them back to Him, He has a way of weaving them into something far greater than I could ever create alone. That is the real magic of life. Not that I control outcomes, but that God transforms offerings into grace.
So today I want to live as someone who participates in what God is doing. Someone who creates. Someone who loves courageously. Someone who surrenders the results and simply trusts God with the story. Because life is a gift, and it becomes richest when I stop clinging and start offering.
Thank you Father for another day to step into Your work. Thank you for letting me be part of Your world, Your people, and Your unfolding redemption. I cannot wait to see what You do with the offering of my imperfect but willing heart.
What a life. What a world. What amazing grace.
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