King of Kings

No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him."  1 Corinthians 2:9

This excerpt from the Bible is the beginnings of a song that I love to sing at our church.

"Eye Has Not Seen"

When pain and sorrow weigh us down,
be near to us, O Lord,
forgive the weakness of our faith,
and bear us up within your peaceful word.

Our lives are but a single breath,
we flower and we fade,
yet all our days are in your hands,
so we return in love what love has made.

To those who see with eyes of faith,
the Lord is ever near,
reflected in the faces
of all the poor and lowly of the world.

We sing a mystery from the past
in halls where saints have trod,
yet ever new the music rings
to Jesus, Living Song of God.

Chorus
Eye has not seen,
ear has not heard
what God has ready
for those who love him;
Spirit of love, come,
give us the mind of Jesus,
teach us the wisdom of God.

This is big stuff.  I'd love to think that God has these great plans for me.  The author suggests that God's ideas are outside the box of anything that we could possibly imagine.  That gets a little tricky.  I've never been an "outside the box" kind of thinker.  Sure, give me the box and I can come up with something to do with it but step outside of it?  Much harder.  I'm more of what you'd call an "adaptively creative" person.  One step at a time.  So I really have to trust God to show me what he wants because it's pretty unlikely that I'll be able to come up with it on my own.  Or maybe that's the point?

Time feels like it's slipping away and I'm letting it go.  It's already February and yet motivation to move forward isn't there.  I guess I still feel like I'm in winter hibernation, just doing enough to get by every day and make sure that no one accuses me of neglecting my kids or my husband.  Or maybe I'm just in a cocoon, bundled up amidst the laundry waiting to be sorted or folded, waiting for the right time to emerge as a butterfly! 

Have a beautiful Best Life day!