Snippets from Sarah

We can all get lost in our perception and lose hope. Sarah thought just because she was 90 she couldn’t have children, that it was too late to be ‘what God intended’. We talked a lot about perspective, i.e., Sarah “fixing things” by setting up things with Hagar. It seems a bit easy to sit here with 3000+ years between us and think that she could have given God more credit than that…ahh, the benefits of perspective! ;)

We all “wait for God to show up” (pg. 69) in our lives. This is probably made more difficult by first defining what it will look like when He does show up and forgetting that He never left in the first place!

God knows each of our “points of fixed impossibility” (p73)…nothing in our lives is catching Him by surprise! The perspective, the perception that needs to move is our own…to acknowledge this to Him and then ask Him to give us His heart, His perspective for living in this world…to make HIM our starting point in everything.

~We walk by faith, not by sight.  II Corinthians 5:7

~The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him,   Nahum 1:7

~in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.   Proverbs 3:6

And oh, how we can all “laugh from the other side of the curtain”! (pg 76-) Sarah defined herself by her sorrow….she took possession of that first and foremost, over everything else. Don’t we all? Sure culture, society, circumstance may shore up our belief that we are justified in living from that perspective, but is that God’s perspective? What does our “curtain” look like when we are dismissing God’s will for us and laughing from behind the curtain?…What have we taken possession of that we were never intended to? We all know the phrase, “oh that’s just how I am”….but is that how I am supposed to be?

We erect walls that separate us (perceived protection?) from human relationships, but the huge (Hoover Dams) that we erect between ourselves and God are most often the most difficult to identify!

~ “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?” Matthew 7:3

Beliefs, perceptions…dare we say, faith?...all define our steps and decisions. We are not able to receive or give grace, because we have already decided that we know what it should look like and when it will come.

One definite snippet from Sarah is to get out from behind that curtain!