Saturday, October 20, 2007

Catch Them....a journal entry

10/23/05
There is so much I want to know. So many answers I would love to have. Trust. Dependence. Surrender. Some days are better than others.
  • I refuse to give into disparity. I will not loose faith in the future. Turn my burdens into bridges.
  • I refuse to loose faith in what I believe.
  • I have to let go and trust in the providence of God. Aim them in the right direction and trust God.

The trapeze artists in the circus....there is always a flyer and a catcher. The flyer's job is to fly as high as he can and in one brief moment, when he reaches the highest point, he is totally still. His job, his part is over, now it's the catcher's job. God is the catcher. Point yourself in the right direction and trust God to catch you.

When everything looked bleak to Moses' parents, they hid him and protected him for 3 years. Then they set him afloat, in a basket, (in the very river that Pharaoh had ordered baby boys to be drowned in) --trusting their God (my same God of Detail) to catch him. When everything looked bleak to Moses' parents they hid him.....When things look bleak in the life of my kids, I hide them... in prayer. Moses' parents (or his sister who I'm sure must have been directed by her parents) watched him float down the river to the safety of the arms of the princess, the daughter of the Pharaoh. God used the house of Pharaoh, the very source of the danger, to 'catch' Moses. I've hid them, protected them and prayed for them....now I'm going to watch my kids float down the river of life and trust that God is going to catch them.

...there beneath the blue suburban skies...