VICTORY DANCE

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks! Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle. But you shall be a miracle." (Phillip Brooks)

Jesus...you've been at work in me a long time. This is my victory dance!

After church the other day, the Lord was talking with me. Just out of nowhere as I got into the car He said, "I like doing miracles. Will you be my miracle?" I just laughed out loud--the week before had been hell (too much isolation and I don't know what all!) and I had school the next morning for the first time in three weeks...it was just a funny moment to be asked to be a miracle. But, of course, I said, "Yes" and the fruit of my life since that moment (it's been four days) is just incredible...

And of course, this miracle has been in process for who knows how many years--well, I do know. Three. I wrote a blog almost three years ago when I started going through the first really hard trial (it involved a boy...and him dating another girl) and the Lord comforted me then...let me know that three years from then the ache would be healed, it was worth hoping...

And He has done all that He promised. Obviously I'm not married--not even aware of anyone that I should start dating--but that doesn't matter as much. It just doesn't. I trust my Lord so much-especially in this part of my life where I am so vulnerable and He knows the weight of it and knows what He wants to do--that I refuse to be like the world around me, overly obsessed with what may happen and who they're going to have their next crush on. I've seen His timing too often. I know He's good. He's going to love me through.

The second part of this quote by Phillips Brook that I had never seen before and am now living in the joy of:

"Every day you shall wonder at yourself, at the richness of life which has come to you by the grace of God."

I am His miracle!