A Little More Waiting

After a sleepless night I just gave in and got up. I was still thinking about hope and waiting. While laying in bed last night I was thinking about Psalm 42.

"Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you in turmoil
within me?
Hope in God; for I shall praise him,
my salvation and my God."

Once again the Hebrew word (yachal) for hope is wait. Why are we down cast? God says, "Just wait on me!" He's up to something, I promise.

Hope

You ever have one of those days where you just want to feel hope? Today's one of those days. I was perusing scripture for encouragement when I came across this:

"Are there any among the false gods of nations that can bring rain?
Or can the heavens give showers?
Are you not he, O Lord our God?
We set our hope on you,
for you do all these things."
Jeremiah 14:22

The English transliteration for the Hebrew word hope is qavah. Qavah specifically refers to waiting. I felt encouragement wash over me as I thought, "we wait on you, for you do all these things." We wait on God because he will work. We wait on God because he has promised good. We wait on God because he is sovereign and there's much more going on than we realize. Isaiah 40 says that when we wait the Lord will renew our strength. Isaiah doesn't say that when I wait, my strength will be renewed, but he says that when we wait our strength is renewed. There is a huge difference. Jeremiah says "we set our hope on you" not "I set my hope on you." God intentionally designed us to wait together in community. I'm so thankful that I don't have to wait on my own.

And now we wait...

a day in the office

I considered blogging about the current events in my life. Instead, I'm going to share a youtube video. There's a handfull of things that make me chuckle as I watch this. I do love that secretly, or not so secretly, most of us know the lyrics to this song. And, I want to work here.

atl and guilt

Last week I attempted to retreat from B'ham for almost 24 hours. Dusk and I decided to take a quick trip out of town before her little one was born. We had a lot of fun shopping at Ikea, swimming, and hanging out! Here's a couple of pictures from this brief trip.

I just wanted to show off little John in this picture! I got to feel him move and squirm a lot! I can't wait to meet you!


This is Dusk and me after she bought some adorable maternity clothes!


Here I am carrying around some closet organizational thingy from Ikea talking on the phone with my boss or some of my partners. It's kind of hard to escape work sometimes.


I'll be back in Atlanta tomorrow for the U2 concert. It's so hard for me to leave town and not feel quilty about not being at work. First of all, I will work directly before we leave and then when we get back to Birmingham I'll be going right back to work, so I'm not taking any time off. I just know myself and I know that I'm going to have a hard time. I just hope that tomorrow I can enjoy myself with my friends.

civilisation

I wish I was back in Ireland right now, however, I'm not. So, until I get back there I'm going to start leaving the letter "z" out of words and using "s" instead. That's what they do over there. That will make the transition from living in America to Ireland a little easier when the day comes for my move to Ireland. For example, "I just realised that I forgot to finish making the schedule at work" (Which is true, by the way) "I specialise in rebuilding transmissions." (Not true) "I haven't been to the soo in forever." (Oh wait, that's just all-together wrong.)

01 September 2009

It's September 1st, which is weird. Time flies. This morning when I realized it was September 1st my mind was immediately taken back to September 11, 2001. I remember sitting in an art class when a student walked in and said that the US was attacked. Within a couple minutes we gathered around a tv watching 2 buildings surrounded in pillars of smoke. We all watched the two building collapse. This morning when I was thinking back to that day I realized that the reality we lived on September 11, 2001 is reality for some people around the world on a daily basis. I can't imagine living with that fear. My heart hurt for all the people that experience pain like that regularly. I'm not great at remembering that my security rests in the finished work of Christ. Regardless of what I feel or do God is my security. I pray that the people around the world right now that are fearing whether or not they will die today will find comfort in the finished work of Christ.

a new addition...

My best friend Dusk and her husband Daniel now have a blog. Well, they've had it for a little while, but I'm finally adding it to my blog roll! They're pregnant and I'm a soon to be auntie! I'm so excited and I can't wait to meet little John!