She wanders around the streets of her town, wondering how she can pierce the darkness. Only Love can heal these wounded hearts, and maybe the robin on the ground knows the truest love of all. The robin doesn’t waste time. It just builds its home, sings its beautiful tune, and cares for its young. Maybe there’s not a whole lot of point in trying to find some other glamorous thing to do.
So she goes on a bike ride on the beautiful summer evening and marvels at the beauty in the world. The breeze is blowing on her face, birds are singing in worship to their Creator, and the flowers stand beautiful beside the road, reminding anyone who takes time to notice that Beauty comes in simple forms.
Maybe we’re all just trying too hard. Maybe we’re running too fast and letting our to-do lists become long and forgetting that true joy is found in allowing the mundane things to be our most intimate acts of worship.
The world is a beautiful place, if we will only take time to notice. But in the hurry and frazzle of life, we grow weary and wonder if anything good is even on the earth.
She takes time to talk to her Creator and becomes much happier because He reminds her who she is and what she’s all about anyway.
And suddenly she knows, in a way she never knew before, that life is not about the amount of things we can accomplish. She feels, deep in her soul, that life is so much more about resting and feeding the soil of our hearts with nutrients that allow the seeds of God’s Word to take root, break open, and grow into an abundance that surely can’t be measured but can only be broken and given for this hungry world to feed upon.
And is that not what Jesus taught us to live anyway?
To love the Lord with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength – the robin is living this quite well. And we know and love Him so much, it breaks our hearts open to dance in the joy of being loved by our Creator which gives us this un-relenting desire to pour His love out to others so they can know it too.
And when they see that your joy is true and your love is deep and Beauty is real in your life, they somehow believe that God is true after all and long in their hearts for that same vibrant radiance. And just maybe, someday, they will come to the Light and choose to believe and Beauty will start to shine in their hearts too.
And soon the whole world might know and believe and the power of the Cross will be alive in our town and love will become the culture instead of hate because the power of Jesus is slowly transforming each of our hearts to be more like Him.
And just maybe, we would stop fighting inside our church doors as well and the little things that felt like big things would suddenly dissolve and we all would choose love instead because who can help but love when they know how much they are loved by the One Who made them?
And it all sounds like such a perfect world but it certainly wouldn’t be. But maybe it could be just a little bit more lovely even in all our un-loveliness.
Because His sacrifice of Love on the Cross can become our lifestyle as well and then those little-big things would get back into their places where they belong and we would almost forget they are there. We would be busy Loving each other.
Which is what He meant when He called us to love the Lord with our entire beings and then to love our neighbors as ourselves. I guess I wouldn’t judge myself like I’m judging the person in the pew in front of me, and I sure hope no one is thinking of me in that way because that does not feel like love. I hope that the person in the pew behind me is caring enough to breathe a prayer for me when they see things are not going well in my life and I hope that they come give me a hug and ask how they can pray for me because that is the kindest form of love anyone can ever give. And then I hope they go home and pray for me because I sure do need those prayers, in the worst sort of way.
And then community would become so beautiful that we would all be filled with His fullness until we’d be overflowing. And then maybe the world would notice those gentle touches of kindness that are being given within the church and they would wonder if that’s how Christ loves us. Which is the whole point of Christ and His Bride anyway so hopefully we’re learning how to live that out.
It’s got to be practical or God wouldn’t ever have asked the husbands to love their wives as Christ loved the church. A Bride who is loved becomes a Bride who loves well and overflows with joy which spreads out to everyone she meets. And everyone knows she is a woman living loved and somehow I believe that’s even more practical as we build relationship with Christ and then with the people around us.
And it’s fully possible because His commands are always fully possible and He’s commanded us to love Him wholly and then to love others as ourselves.
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