hope is coming for me

I was made to live.

I was made to love.

I was made to know You. 

Does anything else compare to this? There is nothing more perfect, more complete, more satisfying than knowing our Creator, loving him, and living in him and for him. Beautiful, life-giving things happen when we obey this call. 

I can't put into words how joyful I am - still dancing in the blessings that come from obedience, I see glimpses of how lovely and mysterious the Lord is. All I know is that I want more. I'm excited because there is more to come. The Lord is faithful, and when we surrender things to him he fills us with more than we need! 

For Lent (although not so much for my spring break that just ended) I have been waking up at 7am every morning to spend an hour with the Lord, praying and writing and reading. It has been SO encouraging and refreshing to wake up that early (well, it's early for me - I know one of you "gets to work at 7") and be intentional about falling in love with my God. I know you can spend that time at any part of the day, but the early morning for me has just been perfect. I'm currently in love with a song by Brooke Fraser (actually, her entire CD is great, you should buy it) (and I don't know how many more parentheses I can fit into this paragraph) and the chorus reads:

speak to me in the light of the dawn

mercy comes with the morning

i will sigh and with all creation groan 

as i wait for hope to come for me

And that's how I feel about the past few weeks waking up with God. His mercies are new every morning, he speaks to me, and I have a longing to be with him - and so I wait for that hope to come with expectation and excitement. So I pray that you, too, will be encouraged: that we have a hope that has been promised to us. If we find that nothing in this world can satisfy, it's because we were not made for here...and soon enough, we will be reunited with our savior.