HERE I WAIT IN HOPE OF YOU…

There is a super wicked ache inside of me to savor melancholy and self-pity. This morning… I am struggling for different — harder reasons than the same time last year. Isn't it true that things on this earth just get harder...more complex and difficult. However, because I know God's faithfulness, my heart continues to learn how to rest in Him…to wait in hope for Him!!

Recently, I was feeling the pull of self-pity and kept rehearsing how stuck I feel in physical and mental turmoil. When the Lord reminded me of how much love He has given me, and in that moment I started singing Christmas hymns. Right here in the middle of muggy May, my heart was draped in a robe of December warmth.

I started to sing one of my favorite new Christmas songs: The Advent Hymn...

"Christ whose glory fills the skies

Christ the everlasting light

The Son of righteousness arise

And triumph o'er these shades of night

Come thou long awaited one

In the fullness of your love

Lose this heart bound up by shame

And I will never be the same"

And all I can think of is how wonderful it will be to see Him come again!!

It's so funny...I keep opening up blogs with so many ideas...things to say, but all I keep coming back to is that our God is good, faithful, and generous. He is both magnificent and tender. You may feel like you are getting everything wrong right now -- and you very well may be -- but here is the truth from God....

“You will call to me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you search for me with all your heart.” Jeremiah‬ ‭29:12-13‬ ‭

Because of our God’s merciful compassion, the dawn from on high will visit us to shine on those who live in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Luke‬ ‭1:78-79‬

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"Dark and cheerless is the morn

'til your love in me is born

And joyless is the evening sun

'til emmanuel has come

So here I wait in hope of you

All my soul's longing through and through

And dayspring from on high be near

And daystar in my heart appear"