Listen

Listen to your life.
See it for the fathomless mystery it is.
In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness:
touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it
because in the last analysis all moments are key moments,
and life itself is grace. Frederick Buechner

I must continue to learn to enjoy the present moment but I still worry and anticipate or plan about the future. Can I let go at times? Even in the middle of pain, sadness and anxiety it is possible to find the hand of God at work in my life. Perhaps I live too much by desiring to see and not enough by the other senses of listening, feeling, tasting or smelling.

The hand of God

What can I believe? I carved this hand based on the verse in Isaiah 29:16 "I have engraved you on the palms of my hands."

I need faith and prayers that things will work out and our relationship will run its course because so many miracles have come together to bring us together and to make us one. Today in a meeting we were asked where the limits of our faith are in what God might do regarding our ministry. But this applies to this relationship and the many questions around family permission and visa.

Our names are carved into this hand to remind us that there is a truth that God will not forget us, especially as he has brought us so far.