9.09.2006

if you wish to be complete

Sometimes the solution is the simplest, right there in front of you. Sometimes you see it there, know it's there the entire time but are powerless to reach for it. Sometimes you think that you will just get there without having to reach. It is wonderful that sometimes He knows you can't reach, can't reach, and so He reaches. And in those times, you see the wonderfulness of the solution. You leave wondering why He doesn't simply solve it for you sooner, or solve it for you all the time knowing your inability to reach sometimes. But you know that He wants you to reach, that by reaching and stretching you grow and that's all He wants all the time. Not just the sometimes. And sometimes you understand it all.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

What does it mean to reach? I'm a visual person and I am trying to get a picture in my mind of what reaching looks like. Lord knows I've tried crying out, praying, reading and just plain talking till I'm blue in the face, but reaching? what is that......... hmmm, now I'll never get to sleep tonight :)
Robin

Wept_over said...

Reach means to take the initiative and do the things you know you should do but don't want to do. Been neglecting that quiet time lately? Know you should be spending more time with God but aren't? Setting that alarm for a 5:30 wakeup for prayer even though you have no desire to do so, that's reaching.