Beautifully Flawed {conversations}
Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The everlasting God, the Lord,
The Creator of the ends of the earth,
Neither faints nor is weary.
His understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
But those who wait on the Lord
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.
We’re two conversations into This is How We Welcome, and I am renewed in hope and blessed by the words and prayers of my children. Some wisdom surfaces quickly and sometimes we struggle to discern a faithful response to the message or questions we’re engaging. One child doesn’t enter these heart talks with a lot of grace, but even though it’s harder for him, his words show me that he’s listening and receiving from the Lord.
And in our perfectly imperfect moments all gathered in the living room, fumbling for words, shushing the little people, and taking tangents down questions that surface and are sort of {but not really} related….I was reminded to tell you that these intentional moments are totally and beautifully flawed. Broken people sitting around trying to be soft for the Lord. It won’t always look pretty. It won’t always feel good. It will sometimes be awkward. And that’s okay. So what if you’re interrupted. Who cares if you never bought the ornaments for the altar (my friend Joanna is cutting them from paper and taping them to a wall — I LOVE that!). It’s okay if you just yelled at your children, and then you’re calling them to a worshipful moment (that might have happened in our house this week).
Don’t wait for the perfect moment to have conversations like these. The perfect moment in now. With all your sin, all your awkwardness, all your short comings. Surrender just a little time a few nights a week and fly open the doors of your heart to receive him. He will come. Let’s wait upon the Lord together, and expect renewal.
