
This is our little girl. She was supposed to be home months ago. I felt pretty connected to her before we visited in February, but afterward, I can't stop thinking about her. My wife is visiting again next week and I'm pretty jealous. I know that she needs the visit more... I just wish I could hold her again.
I keep praying that God would speed things up but the opposite has happened. I used to think I knew how prayer worked and had a lot of faith that my prayers would be answered. Now, all those passages that come to mind and easily roll of my tongue when counseling others struggling with unanswered prayers seem... well, insufficient; like a discouraging reminder that I'm not aligned with God's will.
However, throughout the process, I've been humbled and challenged about all my thrology. Everything I once stood so arrogantly on, I have been forced to throw out. And while most of my friends have tried to encourage me otherwise, it has been a really wonderful experience. I finally feel like I'm following Jesus. I'm sure one day I'll hold Micaiah in my arms and look back on today and think how foolish I was to think what I just wrote... but for today it will keep me following; waiting for the day when my prayers are answered.
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I will simply copy/paste a comment a close friend made on my blog:
embrace it with every once of passion/energy/strength you have embrace it until your arms ache so much it makes you cry embrace it until you break on through to the other side because the joy you will know there will never happen without the pain and fear and trembling. embrace it with reckless abandon and never never never let go. embrace it until you have become hopelessly utterly dependent upon the one who created you to live out a faith that is like no one elses.
Lately I feel like I need to shut up and let God embrace me.
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