This is the day I’ve been working and waiting for since the idea for this study crystallized about six months ago. There are so many people to whom I owe a large debt of gratitude for helping me in various ways to get the study written, ready and distributed. It’s been a journey, already, but the best part of it happens now.
As I was contemplating this week and some of the new things we are hoping to do this year, I got a little audio clip in a text from my daughter, Hannah. It contains a portion of the bed-time prayer of five-year-old, Eliza Jane, last Thursday night. It’s exactly on theme and I think I could never have said it so well. She portrays perfectly, in five-year-old jargon, the idea of “more than we can ask or imagine.” She does it from the purest heart. Here are a few of the moments I loved most from her prayer:
I shared this recording earlier with my good sister, Tonja McRady and Tonja said “ Don’t we all need to keep that awe?”
That’s my hope for the study: that we could all keep the awe of His ability and His desire to answer the pleas of His children; that we can constantly ask “How do you do this, God? Can you do this with your hand?”
Yes, Eliza. He has given us all that we are and have with His hands.
All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word. (Isaiah 66:2)
May we, in the next 12 months, study His greatness, with humility and contrition. May we tremble at His words. May we keep the awe! May we come to love the “more”!
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