Sometimes I feel like
every part of me’s been
flung up in the air
and caught
in slow motion
floating, swirling
and falling
leisurely
down to earth.

Transitions are hard. 
Departures and arrivals 
unsettle me.
I have to let it be 
and wait with You 
until all these parts of me
fall back into place.

And when they do,
I find 
they land differently. 

Sometimes,
I fit together better
than I did before
I left.

And when that happened again,
just last week,
I looked back and remembered 
the moment
when I was surprised  
by love.

That was worth leaving home for.
Ah, yes, that’s why
there’s a little more ease
in my body.

But Love caught me—reached all the way
    from sky to sea and pulled me out
of that ocean of hate, that enemy chaos,
    the void in which I was drowning…
God stood me up on a wide-open field;
    I stood there saved—surprised to be loved!
–Psalm 18:16-17, 19 (The Message, adapted)

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Love Mischief for the World

I enjoyed listening to this interview called “All Parts Welcome” with Elizabeth Gilbert and Dick Schwartz. I hear a lot of God’s love mischief in their lives and what they offer to the world.

What love mischief are you and God doing for the world?
Let me know and I will include it in an upcoming post.

Credits and References:
Photo of a close-up of pebbles by Matthew Henry from Freerange Stock. Used with permission.
Beach pebbles III by Ib Aarmo. Used with permission.

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