Driving home after prayer with a friend desperately wanting
to be in a better place, I look out the window. Passing by fields of hay, I
smile. These fields lay in the center of grocery stores, schools, pharmacies;
yet year after year the new hay grows, as traffic increases.
I love to see the tall hay covered fields, I imagine myself
bare foot, running through them with hands extended as hay whips my hands.
Those open fields of new growth bring such joy to me.
In early summer, the fields are cut and all of the new life
is cut down to dry. The once tall hay, now lays decaying in an open field,
dying. In a few days, heavy equipment scoops up the dead, bales it and
eventually it is sold to feed animals.
I thought about this and I was reminded of life. The joy we
have as we grow, the freedom as we spend our days, carefree looking to the
heavens – the pride as we stand tall.
Without warning, something comes along and cuts us down. Broken we lay,
unable to move, breathe, and we wonder what happened to all of the joy we had,
as we cry out for a better place.
This, is when the Son shines on us. Changing us into
something else. Drying the tears and turning our hurt into nourishment for our
soul. Our tragedy becomes a testimony that we can share with others when the
Prince of this Principality cuts us down and leaves us dying in a field of
despair.
It is when we are at our weakest, that the Father, releases
the heavy equipment and builds up back up into something new. He bales us up
into a strong force that can then nourishes others in pain.
Therefore, since we have been declared righteous by faith, we have
peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 We have also obtained access through Him by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we
rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. 3 And
not only that, but we also rejoice in our afflictions, because we know that
affliction produces endurance, 4 endurance
produces proven character, and proven character produces hope. 5 This hope will not disappoint us, because God’s
love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to
us.
Roman 5: 1-5
Father, I lift up those in agony as they wait for answers.
As they wait for the Son to shine and turn their pain into nourishment for
their growth and blessings for others. Amen
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