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Monday, January 04, 2010
BEING "EMO"
Risking sounding morbid and depressing, I again write with feeling and emotion choking my heart. I am careful though, to tiptoe carefully over the fragile eggs of not allowing emotions to rule me. The kids at school call all of this emotional outletting, "being emo." I get that term but cannot accept its implications. They are too shallow.
What they possibly don't see is that there is great value in examining the direction we have been going. Have our feet been kicking up dust on the twisty, downward trail leading away from our Daddy? There is only one way and, "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it" (Mat.7:13). It's a straight and narrow path---there are no confusing side trails webbed with tangling vines and pitfalls.
There is enormous wisdom in backtracking and staring straight on at what very well might have been a bad choice. Adrian Rogers said, "Wisdom is not getting all wet around the lashes and warm around the heart. It is having a mind that is stayed on God, full of the Word of God, and led by the Spirit of God." Yep!
And then, the most important thing, is allowing God to speak into prepared, softened and repentant hearts. God will open hearts (and eyes), further to all that needs repair and redirection when we kneel beneath His outstretched arms. It's all in the asking...ask Him and He will respond. Repent and receive a cleansing waterfall of forgiveness.
I have been awake since the wee hours of this morning...unable to sleep, praying, asking, pleading, begging Daddy for that which I have no power to change. That realization has been my constant companion for a little over a year now.
So many think that their prayers will give them exactly what they want wrapped up with a pretty bow. I knew, though, as I knelt in front of the chair on the winter-cold floor, that what I asked for might bring more pain at first. I knew that trust was necessary.
I knew, as I wept, that when the Word came to me from Luke 18:1, "Then He spoke a parable to them, that men always ought to pray and not lose heart," that God was shining a beam directly on my sore spot. Isn't it interesting that praying is joined closely with keeping the heart full of hope??? Again, the hope. Again and again.
So, no "emo" raging against the night stuff for me. I am going straight to the heart of this matter. How can I turn my pain into HIS gain? How can this be reshaped into the beauty peeking out from beneath? How can I allow God to work this out for HIS good?How can I get out of the way?
c 01/04/2010 M. LaPointe
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