52 Lists: Week 11

Inhabit. Built. Satisfy. Committed. Blessing.

Each moment is a gift. Each second (especially in the mundane) is an honor. Our lives are fragile and to wake each morning and to be breathing and taking in life is such a treasure. My heart has been realizing this day after day.

This week was the beginning of a season of transition in my life. I packed all of my belongings up and moved across town into a new home. I said goodbye to apartment living and hello to a house with a backyard. I inhabited a new area. Not only is this my physical address, but it's where my heart and soul dwell. As I unpacked all of my things and began to set up home with my new housemate in a new home, I began to build--in the physical and spiritual. In the natural, I went to work on a pallet kitchen table, an outdoor bench, and wall hangings. I also travailed spiritually--praying over each room and preparing the space for the Holy Spirit to feel at home.

Choose today whom you will serve...But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 

-Joshua 24:15

As things began to transition with my new home, so they have been transitioning in my heart. I'm realizing again and again that it is only the Lord who will satisfy. Only he will fulfill every crevice in my heart. Nothing in this world comes close to the fullness that I find in Jesus. And so, I have decided time and time again that my roots are planted deep. My heart and mind are secure. I am committed. I'm all in--with relationships, with this home, with ministry, but above all with Jesus.

He has blessed me in every sense of the word and I am stirred to praise him. He places his hand upon me and blesses me--teaching me in this season how to receive, how to be pursued, how to see him in the biggest of pictures and the smallest of details. 

This week marks a season of newness in my heart and mind. My prayer is that you will allow Jesus to inhabit and build his truth in your heart and mind. I pray that he alone satisfies you like no other and that you, in turn, are committed to him alone--seeing the wonderful blessing of his fellowship.

Until next week...