Baron Von Hugel said, "The chain of cause and effect which makes up human life, is bisected at every point by a vertical line relating us and all we do to God."
Life has seemed so challenging lately. Tate had a fever and was restless, sleeping poorly, and wanting me to hold him constantly. My big boys were busy finishing school things for CC and pushing me toward insanity with their noise and boisterous energy. Livia continues to challenge me by wetting her pants and crying without good cause. My husband has been stressed by our financial situation and occupied with finals and thinking about work and taking the bar. I've had to come up with nourishing meals without many groceries and accustom myself to the idea of Christmas without the usual trimmings. My morning quiet times have been interrupted every day by children awake early (before 6:30) and my daily walks have been suspended due to rain and other extenuating needs. I've felt lonely and disconnected from family and friends, missing out on fellowship of believers and finding myself at home days on end. This is my lot right now. I wouldn't trade it. But, oh, how I long to know Christ more IN it. To have more peace, more contentment, more JOY- right here, right now.
I love what Elisabeth Elliot has to say to me:
"This is what He has given us to do, this task here on this earth, not the task we aspired to do, but this one. The absurdities involved cut us down to size. The great discrepancy between what we envisioned and what we've got force us to be real. And God is our great Reality, more real than the realest of earthly conditions, an unchanging Reality. It is His providence that has put us where we are. It's where we belong. It is for us to receive it--all of it--humbly, quietly, thankfully."
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