devotion i wrote: a gentle rain.

--> The riskiest things always yield the best, most beautiful things. Failure, loosing yourself, falling face first with nothing left. That’s when it seems God finds us, dusts us off and puts us back on our feet. I feel that when the worst of things happen a gentle rain falls from above, as if it is God’s peaceful way of saying, your clean my child it is all washed away in me, just have faith. When the road gets dark and you can no longer see just have a little faith in me. I feel that every life tells a story, through words and actions and choices, through our homes and our children, through our friends and our clothes and dishes and perfume. We each play a character in a grand drama, and every stage direction matters. We tell our stories, and let God’s story be told through our stories. We hide and we seek and we lose ourselves in the best possible way, and find things around us and inside ourselves we never expected. See that’s the beauty of life, what holds as important is not simply the final destination but the journey that led you there. It is our past, present and future that is the general make-up for who we are today and what gives us the full reign to change who we will become tomorrow. We hold the key to change but getting it is never easy. Patience causes us to fall off track and go to other things as a sence of enjoyment of fulfillment. Saying no to what use to bring us joy and changing is one of the hardest virtues in life. Everyone would like to change something about them but only few people are strong enough, bold enough, willing to say no, willing to give up a peace of them of what they were use to. We are so selfish in this world, we want and we want and we want. And then when we want from God, we are not willing to meet halfway we expect him to completely transform our heart as we sit there sacrificing nothing. This phrase keeps coming to mind, actions speak louder than words. Don’t get caught saying your hopes and dreams, your aspirations if you are not willing to alter your actions as hopes of getting there. Sure its painful, its hard it’s a risk but even the days that you feel so bogged down, broken, overburdened with the demands of life God steps in and sends a gentle rain that cleanses everything.