When anxiety was great within me, your consolation brought me joy.
your heart trembles
under a load of
anxiety?
Do you have a word that soothes
or a song that comforts?
I have a treasure chest full
that measures an abundance of
JOY
just waiting for me.
Sometimes easily forgotten,
one simple thought
can take me down the path
that will open the vault of memories
stored
with friends of the most
heart-full kind.
There is the friend who
drove the car while my husband held onto
our mattress tied to the roof of the car.
Then there is the couple who
brought 3 pies to our house
and got snowed in at Thanksgiving
so we ate all the pies, the four
of us, in ONE day.
Or maybe I would remember the
friend who eagerly shared my
joy in gardening and donned her
raincoat and boots
just so that we would not miss our
yearly Garden Planting Day.
Ah, yes, another gardening friend
came alongside
for our Secret Gardening Forays
as we transplanted and prettied
up our townhouse complex
together.
But what kinds of friends would
willingly
sign up to portray the cast of
a Gilligan Christmas
put on by the STAFF of your Church?
True friends who know what it means
to love to the full
day in and day out
because
that's what Jesus calls us to do.
And by the time I've
walked through the years
back up to the present,
and my heart is looking down
the trail that is today,
I find a new list of friends.
Ones who have joined me with
Blogging, Facebook, and Emails for
Blogging, Facebook, and Emails for
Digital Loving,
a phrase I did not know could exist.
But then,
who would have thought that
mattress chugging,
pie eating,
boot wearing,
shovel bearing,
and
costume wearing
could be ways to find true consolation
and JOY
from Jesus?
There is no room for anxiety
when my heart is so full
of LOVE like that.
And so to all of my friends,
both near and far,
And to all of my Loved Ones
who live in my heart,
I am THANKFUL for the gift
of consolation
that Jesus brings through you.
I am linking this week over at these great sites:
#TeaAndWordTuesday, Meg Weyerbacher
#TellHisStory, Jennifer Dukes Lee
#LiveFreeThursday, Suzie Eller
And so to all of my friends,
both near and far,
And to all of my Loved Ones
who live in my heart,
I am THANKFUL for the gift
of consolation
that Jesus brings through you.
I am linking this week over at these great sites:
#TeaAndWordTuesday, Meg Weyerbacher
#TellHisStory, Jennifer Dukes Lee
#LiveFreeThursday, Suzie Eller
