Scary Prayers... Part Two
- Annie Gentzler
- Dec 14, 2016
- 2 min read
He is more than enough.
It is not just an idea that sounds appealing. It is the reality that I have lived over the last three weeks.
In the aftershock, fumbling for footing, I thought the disappointment my husband experienced might cloud this month, a month I hoped would bring a sense of “newness”.
But I stand today singing an entirely different song.
The past three weeks have been packed with significance:
Powerful and scary prayers have finally been uttered.
There has been space for piercing but truly restorative communication with my husband.
We have made deeply meaningful memories that will forever mark this time in our life.
The beginning of THIS December has forever changed my perception of the month. This December seems to have exquisite treasures stuffed in all its corners and secret places. And we are not even half way through the month…
God has made it clear that He has the last word when it came to this month of my life. God took the opportunity to display how abundantly He blesses surrender.
What at first seemed truly disorienting has instead opened the pathway back to the sweetest place I have ever found…living surrendered. What at first left me feeling untethered and unanchored has actually re-loosened the ties to this world and its game of searching for satisfaction where none can be found.
When I return to Him, bringing a humbled and surrendered heart, He does something magical:
He gently takes my dread out of my hands and replaces it with excitement and passion for HIS plan.
He takes my fear and trades it for inexplicable and sustaining peace.
He simply asks that I keep coming back to Him to handle the burdens of my heart. He asks that I trust He is the only one who can provide the satisfaction I crave.
And then He does something staggeringly beautiful.
He showers my days with an abundance of fresh blessings that changes everything about what I am seeing… the same way He sends a December snow to softly and silently sweep in and repaint what may have started to look like a grey and dreary landscape. He transforms it into something entirely new…
He stills our hearts and stirs our souls.
He leaves us breathless in wonder.
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