Remembering Space

Sitting here looking at the labyrinth today and enjoying the breeze thru the bamboo and the shade it provides. I have such wonderful memories here, here on a patch of dirt on the side of the house of all places! I just loved my days working in the labyrinth. Not just the physical rock moving and watching it all come together, but how God brought it together and worked on me.

Now, when I pray, I often visualize this space and “walk” it ♥, as a way to focus my heart in conversation with God. Soooo many sweet memories, deep soul searching & soul stretching done here! These days, as God has moved me on to another project of prayer, He has gifted my heart with this space of remembrance.

See, I don’t have the time to tend it and the bamboo has stretched up and the leaves have fallen over the paths, but His Grace extended in that time, extends to now and always. So many lessons learned, but the greatest I think, was/is the lesson of space. It was learning to seek Him and identify the busyness of life and make room for prayer time with Him ev-er-y-day. His time takes priority and everything else flows from that…not the other way around.

Our prayer lives should not be only giving God some list of things we think need to happen. Prayer is a time to sit with Him, enjoy the breeze together, quiet our soul and listen for His still, small voice.

 

Life IS a labyrinth, when you think about it! Our steps of life, centered around God…sometimes we are father away from the Center of His will than we should be, or want to be, but He is always there guiding and calling us home to Himself. He is not moved or shifted by what the world throws at us. Every moment of our lives is about His pulling us towards Him in life lessons of Trust, steps of Faith and God’s unending Love is blanketed (like the bamboo leaves!) all over our every step.

Prayer takes us right to God…no missteps, no faltering…our part is to make the space, no matter the circumstance.      

When Daniel learned that the order had been signed, he went home. In an upstairs room of his house there were windows that faced toward Jerusalem. There, just as he had always done, he knelt down at the open windows and prayed to God three times a day.

Daniel 6:10

You, Lord, give perfect peace
    to those who keep their purpose firm
    and put their trust in You.

Isaiah 26:3

Time

Time, it is what God wants of us, with us. He created it for us…Time, the sun rising & setting, the tides rolling in at the behest of the moon, the seasons changing ~ all the markings of time.

God doesn’t need time for Himself, He is yesterday, today and tomorrow. This is all for us, His gift to us and He wants to share in our time.

Our world is so fast, so inundated with noise and the clamor of consumption, that we so easily miss the subtle grace of the moment. God is in every moment, but how often we miss Him. There is such Peace at our fingertips when we stop to linger over His Word, when we pause to listen to the joyous ways He speaks to us ~ a child’s laughter, the coo of the birds at dawn, that first morning breeze. He speaks, He calls out to our hearts with His whisperings of Love…now  is our time to listen.

““Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.”

Matthew 11:28-30 ~ The Message Version