Wait for it. Hold tight. Sit silently. Thoughtless and alone, listening only to your body, your breath. There God will find you. The idea of seeking God is a paradox; backwards conceptually. We don’t find God. He finds us. The question is are we willing to be found?
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| Jeff and Val and Hanna Holtgeerts |
Sometimes God finds us in a high school gym when a 6’7” gentle giant named Jeff Holtgeerts wanders up and asks, “What are you doing tonight?” And you answer, “Nothing.” And he replies, “We’ll pick you up at seven. You’re going to Young Life.”
Other times He finds us when we sit alone, broken by life’s disappointments: a broken marriage, a wandering child, financial ruin or simply a dream continually dashed. And we finally stop fighting. We drop our act and listen to our body. Our pain and disappointment have their own sound, their own place in our bones. We choose to still the inner conversation we’re having about our failures, our unworthiness, our consuming self-contempt. We choose to sit in the silence of the mind. And there, having surrendered to circumstances, God appears.
He has always been there.
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