7/21/23
Notes after recheck at doctor’s office following partial thyroidectomy weeks previously:
Strange….. after today’s Wake Up Call devotional and prayer several people and situations came to mind….. more prayer.
Then this…… tears on my pillow. tears of repentance….. tears of intercession and petition for some difficult situations and hope that today I walk in humility as God directs my steps
and just this phrase rising in my spirit
“tears on my pillow, pain in my heart caused by you….”
I have felt such pain…. today my tears were a prayer for someone new to our ministry for whom I pray peace with God and within herself. But tears were also for repentance in another situation of my own poverty of spirit and the ways in which I have caused others’ tears.
These past few days in Romans have been hard…… and a blessing.
The more hidden the stones, the deeper the cut required to circumcise them from some parts of the heart…… the more exacting, precise, and temporarily immobilizing the work of the Word and Spirit will be….. while God both completes the delicate isolation and excision and binds the wound, made necessary because of its interference in the work He has called one to.
I’m in physical realm reality:
Stitches on my neck were removed yesterday. Doc was a little surprised that, though the suture line looked good, it was not entirely closed . I had to go to a pharmacy across the street and get some steri strips to secure the edges of the cut and was cautioned to keep my head down and not stretch the suture gap.
( “In physical….”)
Strange work….. healing.