Hello! After talking about doing this for months, I finally did it! Helps that I actually have a few (really FEW) free moments right now. This blog will predominately be random thoughts by me...after all, isn't that what this thing is all about? But, you will see a frequency of postings about Table Ministries, a newly formed ministry with many of my dear friends, to aid and love on the homeless in and around Hermann Park in Houston, TX. This posting, though, has nothing to do with that by any means. It is just a quick thought that has come to me during prayer time recently.
Time
Why do we always say that time "goes by"? Really? But, where does it go? Should we, rather, be thinking that time "comes"? After all, if the All Mighty Savior knew that this day, this moment that I am typing, would come before I was even born, didn't it already exist? This very moment, sitting in my comfy chair, with my most trusted companion (my dog) next to me, watching Polar Express in 85 degree Houston weather and trying desperately to be in Christmas spirit, with a broken but mending heart, learning so much everyday about His love...this EXACT moment. He knew it would occur, so the time CAME for me to start a blog. Just as the time CAME for God to create light, and for Him to create Adam, and for Him to provide a companion, and for a flood, and for judges and kings, and for 400 years of silence and for THE MOST AMAZING GIFT EVER! The time CAME for Christ to come to earth as it had been proclaimed for years...it CAME upon a midnight clear. I think that is the best lesson I have learned in my walk. Well, besides the difficult lessons of learning His love and to trust and forgive, this to me, proves the existence of a Savior most of all. He is so in tune to our lives that time comes for everything. I so often find myself wandering through life expecting something to happen as soon as I learn this lesson, or achieve this goal, or mature in this way, or whatever. But it is not that time is going by while I try to grow closer to Him; not at all. It is that time COMES for every moment of my precious life that He holds so dearly. I have been praying so much this year that I would grow closer and learn something new this advent season, other than how not to shop at Target on the Saturday before Christmas (a lesson I have once again failed)....and once again, my Beloved has proven faithful in teaching me this. I pray that you, too, if anyone should ever read this, learn that the time will come for all of your heart's desires.
Merry Christmas!
grace & peace,
nikki
