http://www.SutterSaga.com/ashley/happy-birthday-brad/ musings and news from church ministry on Long Island - the edge of New York City. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.SutterSaga.com/ashley/happy-birthday-brad/comment-page-1/#comment-6855 amy Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:07:17 +0000 http://suttersaga.com/?p=471#comment-6855 Love this- I'm all about the struggle and the journey... Your post makes me think about how I've handled struggles in my past. Years and years ago I ran from God. Well, I tried to run from Him. And in my darkest hours when I was trying to detach myself from a God that I didn't think understood me and was unfair, He was the most present. He never left. He never let me go no matter how hard I tried (and wow did I try). Now I like to think of Noah. Poor Noah was stuck on that ark with all of those stinking animals and his family (I don't know which would be worse... jk) but he was there. He sat through the unknown, the crazy, the absolute hell that it must have been. He didn't run from it. He didn't jump ship, so to speak. He waited for God. And he sent out that dove repeatedly, even when it came back with nothing. He continued to seek out the Lord's provision to bring him and his family through the struggle and desperation. His action was an action of faith- not an action of doubt. So when I'm struggling with something big, I try to embrace that fact that I'm there- I'm in the struggle- I cannot fake my way out of it. There is no point- the Lord has allowed me here for a reason. And then I just try to seek God through it- I want to keep sending out the dove knowing that at some point, it will return with a branch and there will be a glimmer of hope seeing what I know: that the Lord has not left me. Love this- I’m all about the struggle and the journey… Your post makes me think about how I’ve handled struggles in my past. Years and years ago I ran from God. Well, I tried to run from Him. And in my darkest hours when I was trying to detach myself from a God that I didn’t think understood me and was unfair, He was the most present. He never left. He never let me go no matter how hard I tried (and wow did I try). Now I like to think of Noah. Poor Noah was stuck on that ark with all of those stinking animals and his family (I don’t know which would be worse… jk) but he was there. He sat through the unknown, the crazy, the absolute hell that it must have been. He didn’t run from it. He didn’t jump ship, so to speak. He waited for God. And he sent out that dove repeatedly, even when it came back with nothing. He continued to seek out the Lord’s provision to bring him and his family through the struggle and desperation. His action was an action of faith- not an action of doubt. So when I’m struggling with something big, I try to embrace that fact that I’m there- I’m in the struggle- I cannot fake my way out of it. There is no point- the Lord has allowed me here for a reason. And then I just try to seek God through it- I want to keep sending out the dove knowing that at some point, it will return with a branch and there will be a glimmer of hope seeing what I know: that the Lord has not left me.

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