Lost and Found.
What are you looking for?
"When we are too intent in our search for something, we can look at it 100 times without seeing it… such useless anxiety produces this coldness and numbness in your soul."
St. Francis de Sales
Have you ever looked in the refrigerator for your lost car keysonly to find them in your left hand?
I think I can do this when I attempt to find what God is up to in my life rather than notice where God is present in my life. It has been my experience that what I am looking for is usually right in front of me but it requires me letting go of the intense search before I can notice what is in my soul. I am where I am in my journey because that may just be where I am supposed to be in the journey.
God is present with me always.
I don’t have to frantically search for what God is doing.
God is doing and being right this very second.
In the midst of the chaos God is creating life
or out of the chaos God creates life.
When I get so intent in my search is usually when I get anxious.It is the anxiousness that produces coldness or numbness in my soul.This coldness or numbness is due to fear.The frantic search seems to be overwhelmingand when one feels overwhelmed one often loses sight of God.
By being the Presence, Jesus reminds us God’s presence.
God comes to us.
Jesus called it the "kingdom of God".
According to Frederick Buechner, it is not a place, but a condition.
He says, "Jesus is maybe at his best in describing the feeling you get when you glimpse the Thing Itself. It is like finding a million dollars in a field or a jewel worth a king’s ransom. It is like finding something you hated to lose and thought you’d never find again—an old keepsake, a stray sheep, a missing child. When the kingdom really comes, it’s as if the thing you lost and thought you’d never find again is you."
Maybe you’ll discover it was there all along.
God’s dominion, presence and reign is near, turn and believe the Good News.
You haven’t lost it, rather it has found you
and you are never alone or without God.
"Fear not... relax... I am with you always, even 'til the end."
8 Comments:
Wow, this is exactly the thing that has been on my mind. The coldness and numbness from trying too hard, perfect description. Thank you for the post.
Rick, I love this post and concept. Sometimes we overly complicate things. The times that my relationship with God is stronger are those when i'm concious of His presence through my breath, my thoughts, feelings, and all that surrounds me.
Isn't it depends on whether or not I am God's child?
"When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart" -Jer.29:13.
this makes sense - letting go of the intense search so I can notice what is in my soul! I can get so into searching and then planning, that I may miss the on thing God is doing. Right now God is having me read your blog at one a.m. cause I can't sleep. He's here with me, this is where he's meeting me at the moment. I need to just relax and be in his presence
often look for my keys while I have them on me already. so this spoke words I could REALLY relate to.
Thanks to all of you for your comments.
I welcome Ethan and Hector as well to the mix.
Bumble, thanks. I hope we, our belief is that we are created by God. I guess I was trying to say that often we keep looking for God "frantically" or "anxiously" when God is present with us. I don't think God is "out there" somewhere for us to find, but rather God is near to us and we only need to trust and turn or open ourselves to the reality.
I hope this helps.
yes..i'm lovin' this post, but specifically the anxiousness.. i'm with you there. don't think i've ever stopped to identify it, but i appreciate that you have.
good words to start my week. thanks my friend.
thank you for the reminder.
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