This is my view from my chair each morning when I read God's Word and spend time with Jesus. It is a beautiful view, peaceful and restful. Kind of opposite of my inner soul right now. I read the headlines and grieve for what I see happening in the world. Wrestle with how to rightly respond and rightly pray. Here I sit seeing with my eyes the beauty of God's creation, yet seeing with my soul the conflicts and sorrows of a lost world. How to reconcile these two? Only through Jesus' eyes. He is outside of "time" and sees the end from the beginning; He knows how to weave all things together for good for those who are His children. Waiting for the end product is a difficult thing to do, something we aren't very good at. In waiting, I pray and I stay close to Him, I speak His name and serve His children. In waiting, I trust and pray for the world to know Him. He takes the "rags" of our lives and weaves them together on His perfect loom in order to bring glory to His name. He does this also for His children who are undergoing great persecution, and I must pray and believe for them that He is seeing and is doing so much more that I can't understand or "see" with my eyes. Believers are bound together and what hurts one hurts the another. So I stand before the throne with them before our great and mighty God who is our help and refuge. The same One who created the striking colors of petunias, zinnias, and roses is the same One who will make all things right soon. Come, Lord Jesus. K.C.
