When abandon is riding with the windows down
- Bailey
- Feb 9, 2015
- 2 min read
Today was one of those all around perfect days.
Jesus woke me up my favorite way–with sunlight and clear skies and coffee. He knows me so well.
He gave me the immense privilege of loving on and teaching a small group of fifth grade girls about His kindness. And I’m positive He loved and taught me much more through them.
He provided the opportunity to sit across from a beautiful daughter in Christ and revel in how He can use me to speak piercing reality and challenging truth into that young life. What’s more amazing in that Discipleship is that the words I pray for the wisdom to speak reach my ears and rest on my heart like they were meant for me in the first place.
Signature of Divine.
Jesus’ love-in-kindness lit up my heart this afternoon through one of my most favorite friendships. It’s one of those that no matter how much time or distance or life has gone by, a hug is all it takes to reconnect. I know this child-of-God is a favorite of Jesus’ and mine, and rejoicing in the serenity of friendship with her on this sunny-and-75-perfection meant the world.
We revisited our warm-season-tradition. We rode with the windows down and sun roof open and worship music up loud. We laughed over memories, waved off the future, and delighted in the present. We praised God that He crossed our paths at the perfect time.
One of the closing scenes of this glorious glimpse of heaven was a worship set full of songs pivotal in my walk with and understanding of Jesus this year. Hearing the Lord speak through those songs today and so many days in the past evokes feelings of confidence and marvel in the full-circle, big-picture way God works.
It’s Your breath in our lungs So we pour out our praise We pour out our praise It’s Your breath in our lungs So we pour out our praise To You onlyAll the earth will shout Your praise Our hearts will cry These bones will sing Great are You, LordGreat are You Lord, All Sons and Daughters
I want to be lost I want to be lost in You Overwhelm me I want to be lost I want to be lost in You Overwhelm meTake me higher, take me deeper Seeing Your glory, hearing Your whisper I want to be lost I want to be lost in YouOverwhelm Me, CentricWorsip, Riley Erin
These days that overflow with the perfection of the Creator remind me not only that the best is yet to come, but that the now is so good too. It’s in the now that I live, and I want more than anything to be fully present and jubilant over each breath I’m given.
My prayer is that I won’t waste a second.
