Daily 5 - Day 113

Today's daily 5 is likely only going to be about 5, mostly because it's late and I need to try to get some sleep...

1. Thankful for the chance to attend a housegroup again tonight, and hear another girl's story... beautiful and challenging... (though I'll be glad when I feel a bit less like "the brand new person" - always a bit stressful for the introverted yours truly!)
2. Glad for a less busy day at the office, while still accomplishing a few projects
3. Making a quick, simple, but tasty supper
4. I'm thankful in the cold weather, and especially in the evening when transit is not so readily accessible, that I have a car that runs relatively well.
5. I'm thankful for slow, little changes I'm feeling in myself these days - the strength to know that these really awful times I've been through the last few years do not have to rule the rest of my life, that somehow, I will live fully and freely again.
   

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The God Who Yearns and Waits for Us

I've been pondering Romans 8 quite deeply again lately, and had to smile when, the other night, as I turned to the next prayer in Walter Bruggemann's wonderful "Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth" it contained lines also drawn from that passage. The prayer, titled the same as this post, read:

We are strange conundrums of faithfulness and fickleness.
We cleave to you in all the ways that we are abled.
We count on you and intend our lives to be lived for you,
and then we find ourselves among your people
who are always seeking elsewhere and otherwise.
So we give thanks that you are the God
who yearns and waits for us,
and that our connection to you is always from your side,
and that it is because of your goodness
that neither life nor death
nor angels nor principalities
nor heights nor depths
nor anything in creation
can separate us from you.
We give you thanks for your faithfulness,
so much more durable than ours. Amen.

(Awed to Heaven, Rooted in Earth, pg. 135)