12.23.2008
My wife made a wry comment to me yesterday. She observed that with our recent snowstorm, the cars that run sit buried in the drifts, while the one car that isn't running, sits snug as a bug in our garage. Oh the irony. But there is a point here -- there is a cost for making room in our lives for restoration. This applies both to work on a project car, as well as, an inner work in our lives.
Recently, I went on a "Space Retreat". No, it wasn't a star-trek convention type of thing, but rather a make-space-in-your-life-for-God event. Several friends got together because we realized that in the busyness and hectic pace of our lives that God too easily gets crowded out. And when God gets crowded out of our lives, a lot of other less desirable things pile up in his place. That's when we have to make a choice to make room for His restoration.
At the retreat, we attempted to do this through times of silence and solitude, creating time and space to hear from the One who created Time and Space. We read the Bible and chewed on its meaning for our lives. We prayed - talked to God - and tried to make ourselves available to his restoring. Then we came back together in community and shared how the renewing process was going. This type of inner transformation doesn't happen automatically. Our part is to create the space for it. Then there is room for God to do his part, the restoring part, and he's really good at what he does.
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