Darkness is not dark for you and night shines as the day. Darkness and light are but one.
Psalm 139:12
A friend has an expression, "The Grace has gone," to mean a situation has turned badly and there is nothing to do but walk away.
The events of the past year have given me much opportunity to reflect on that apt saying.
The Grace has gone.
I do not believe in hopeless situations, but I do believe that sometimes my purpose in a particular situation is complete. I've done all I can. And then God moves me along.
I used to batter my gypsy heart for its wanderlust and its desire to see over the next horizon. Even when it agrees to settle somewhere (it does try, really!) soon it begins its restless pacing until the singing of the wind becomes too strong. The words we use for this are not flattering: "Distracted" "Noncommittal" "Unreliable."
Grown-ups pick a place and stick to it, right?
Except, no. Not always. Sometimes Home isn't a place on a map.
My God, whose HEART is my home, leads where He wills, through darkness and light, through deserts and hurricanes. When my soul stays safely cloistered in Him, my gypsy heart can wander freely, sheltered from the storms and hate of this broken world. Even when my feet feel frozen and my fists rage toward heaven, no lamp to my feet, no understanding of the swirling insanity surrounding me, He sees clearly and asks me to simply and painfully take a step toward Him.
In the single step is a lifetime of confusion, pain, fear, hope, healing, joy, peace. Then Grace infuses it all.
Darkness is not dark for you and night shines as the day. Darkness and light are but one.
Psalm 139:12
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