Next week I hope to write more about what our Monday night group has been swimming in for a few weeks... which has to with Beauty, Mystery and Wonder. While it's slowly becoming a permanent theme in my interior life, I'm also discovering that it's not simply a quaint acronym (BMW) that I can apply to my interior life.
Several months ago you said to me... "I never want to mistake easy for good", to which I responded, "And I never want to mistake hard for bad".
So much of my life I want to navigate, figure out and implement a plan to resolve the questions of...
- Why are things so hard?
- What is at the root of my fears?
- How can I avoid such interior fretting?
All good questions, yet none seem to ever get answered by my sorting and analyzing.
Maybe God has more for me than the avoidance of pain. Maybe He has Him for me in the middle of it all. Maybe He calls this the BMW of His character, the same character that He wants me to grow up into.
Last thought: Beauty, Mystery and Wonder - as much as I am drawn to this junior trinity - are polar opposite to my demand-to-understand ways. You and Jessica would love to be here for our Monday night banter. But our God has you there driving a BMW.
