This was so encouraging to me today, wondering what God is up to behind the scenes of a particularly hard season. Your words remind me to trust that God is up to more than I give God credit for!
Lovely to read and definitely true of my experience! We are too often limiting of what God can do, and we can only see much of His work in hindsight. And then there are the 997 other things He has been doing in and through and around us that we are incapable of knowing.
This brought home the true meaning of God being omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. I have heard those terms all my life but never really thought about exactly how that would apply in my life. My control freak self is impatient, and when I don't get the answers I am looking for/wanting, I act like a toddler.
This resonates greatly. My dad would talk about how God is never doing just one thing in our lives. So encouraging to know and your writing has reminded me of this truth. Thank you!
Oh friend, so much to unpack, delight in, and remember here! I agree with Laura, this shines—that light that is part of reality; in earth as it is in heaven. Grateful for your generous sharing, Jen. These insights from your lived experience and God’s movement in and through all that you go through, are a gift to read.
This knocked my socks off. I tell people I’m from Cincinnati (I’m from Middletown!). I’ve lived overseas for 10 years but it’s been an encouraging season of God doing thousands of things in my life, the ministry here, and in my family/friends/church back “home.”
We plan to be here forever but I know a move is always a possibility. Testimonies of God’s unexpected mercies in such a life change is so life-giving. Thank you!
Having just finished re-reading Rumer Godden’s In This House of Brede, a literary version of God’s simultaneous thousand things, it is all the more moving to read this real-life record. Thank you, Jen.
So encouraging! I cringe to think of past pronouncements of what God was doing in certain situations. He has brought me to a place where I am learning to embrace mystery.
This shimmers, Jen.
I’m sure you are seeing this in your season! Or maybe hoping that this is true!
This was so encouraging to me today, wondering what God is up to behind the scenes of a particularly hard season. Your words remind me to trust that God is up to more than I give God credit for!
So glad it came at the right time, to suggest the many hidden goodnesses of his providence.
Lovely to read and definitely true of my experience! We are too often limiting of what God can do, and we can only see much of His work in hindsight. And then there are the 997 other things He has been doing in and through and around us that we are incapable of knowing.
Yes!
Thank you, praying and trusting in this for our family right now. We see God’s deliverance and yet we’re still in a threshold sort of place.
I’m from Ohio, too :).
A threshold place: hope, uncertainty! God bless!
This brought home the true meaning of God being omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient. I have heard those terms all my life but never really thought about exactly how that would apply in my life. My control freak self is impatient, and when I don't get the answers I am looking for/wanting, I act like a toddler.
I love to think it was expressing all these divine attributes!
This is really encouraging as I struggle with knowing what God is doing in the hard season my family is in.
I pray you can trust his mysterious kindnesses.
Well said, and well worth seriously considering.
Thanks for reading!
Yes, so often I put God in a box as though He is as limited as me!
Exactly!
I agree with Laura, this truly shines, Jen.
As is clear, the insight is completely borrowed!!
Yes, but you had to humbly reflect on it, and that is what is so lovely.
This resonates greatly. My dad would talk about how God is never doing just one thing in our lives. So encouraging to know and your writing has reminded me of this truth. Thank you!
How wonderful to have your father teach you this!
Oh friend, so much to unpack, delight in, and remember here! I agree with Laura, this shines—that light that is part of reality; in earth as it is in heaven. Grateful for your generous sharing, Jen. These insights from your lived experience and God’s movement in and through all that you go through, are a gift to read.
I hope sharing this helps you see a thousand things in your own life, too!
This knocked my socks off. I tell people I’m from Cincinnati (I’m from Middletown!). I’ve lived overseas for 10 years but it’s been an encouraging season of God doing thousands of things in my life, the ministry here, and in my family/friends/church back “home.”
We plan to be here forever but I know a move is always a possibility. Testimonies of God’s unexpected mercies in such a life change is so life-giving. Thank you!
Good to hear your story, Amber, and to hear your bear witness of God’s faithfulness!
Having just finished re-reading Rumer Godden’s In This House of Brede, a literary version of God’s simultaneous thousand things, it is all the more moving to read this real-life record. Thank you, Jen.
Thank you for citing that title, which I’ve heard of but never read!
So encouraging! I cringe to think of past pronouncements of what God was doing in certain situations. He has brought me to a place where I am learning to embrace mystery.
His will is far more powerful than we think!
This is so beautiful.
How long have you been in Ohio? I’ve been here about 6 years.
Just two years! Summer of 2022
Just now read this. Jen what a beautiful gift, these words. Encouraging heavenly reminders. Thank you!