The book won't really be a devotional, but sometimes it kind of accidentally happens that way. I have found on a pretty consistent basis that when I share the absurdities of my life, God makes sense out of the convoluted situation in such a way that typically there is SOME kind of spiritual or life application that springs up out of no-stinkin-where.
On Suffering...
"In the narrowly constructed hallows of my psyche - Suffering is the name of my book-not a subcategory-having come face to face with a grief too heavy to bear. When you're waist-deep in mire, inching along toward perceived normalcy, it requires all the strength you can muster. Do we really believe God to be who He says He is? Do I really believe God to be who He says He is? I've heard it said: "Trust is a beautiful act of worship." That it is.
"Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, 'Naked I came from my mother's womb, and naked shall I return. The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.' In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong." Job 1:20-22
Our lives here on earth are just.... breaths in the wind. It's a very flawed glimpse of a holy eternity, and we get so caught up in the subcategories that we often forget our books are being penned by a Sovereign Hand."
© Sara Parkes - 6/22/07
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