"Let us lay aside every weight and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us" - Hebrews 12:1
A friend once shared this verse with me through a painting she drew me. The texture, color, and heart expressed onto the canvas was amazing. As you can tell from the above picture, she's an amazing painter! Just now, I was reflecting upon my day and I realized how liberated I am from some of the weight of my past. The last few months has been difficult. I'm the type of dude that punishes themselves when they make a mistake. I spend hours/days/months trying to 'understand' or 'diagnose' why I did what I did. If my friends are angry at me, I'd probably self destruct...LOL
2012 has been a good, but rough year. Moving on from friends, assumptions, and mistakes is a difficult thing. It's so easy to be caught up with this baggage. But one thing the Lord has been showing me is an image of a river. Rivers flow all directions, up and down, left and right then more ups and downs and so on. Life unfolds much like the streams of a river. Our choices determine the flow of our rivers. We move on as well as we get moved on. What is truly and deeply edifying is that in Christ, all our rivers end at one same eventual destination that is the ocean of God's grace, love, and justice.
My river is moving on and is being moved on. No matter how separated I may feel from 'friends', I look forward to one day intersecting again as the Spirit anoints. If not, we will all meet and celebrate in God.
