I’m free falling into grace. Like my girls gathering up our leaves in the backyard into piles and soaring through the air with no concern for how they will land, what is beneath them or on them. No concern for getting their pajamas dirty, or spiders hiding underneath. I remember being a child just like them once and jumping into the leaves in our yard with no concern whatsoever, just crashing down with nothing on my mind or in my heart but uninhibited joy.
What is it about getting older that makes jumping into the leaves loose its appeal? Why can’t I get as much joy out of jumping into cold water, splashing at bath time, playing with rolly pollies? Why can’t I get into making mud pies, or pretending to be farm animals without feeling like anything else would be more worth my while?! We adults just know too much. Our minds are constantly filled with the weight of the world right now. We need to remember that tomorrow is pajama day at school, and homework needs to be put in their backpacks. We need to make sure we have a plan for dinner, have gotten all the necessary ingredients, and we have to remind them to make their beds and pick up their play dough. We have the weight of teaching them about good and evil, and making sure they learn to help others and be good citizens. We have to bring food to the next church potluck, and help others, and be good citizens ourselves. To take time to pray for others, and our country, and our world. How can we take time to just jump into the leaves with uninhibited joy???
One day in heaven we will have the ability to jump into the leaves with no fear of what is below. But today, I think God wants to do a work in us. Through quiet whispers he speaks to me in my sleep. He wants to give us the key to the Kingdom NOW, so we can dance through life without fear of what is below. There has been so much chaos in the world, and I don’t think it is going to ever ease up. But God is calling out his remnant to live with him, on top of a mountain of grace, high above it all, here and now. All we have to do is accept the key of his Holy Spirit!! Walking in the spirit will carry us through this crazy life until one day we get to be with him.
Since college, God has been speaking the book of Isaiah on my life. Particularly Isaiah 61. It became my life’s mission after an Inner City college mission trip I went on. That chapter meant so much to me, and lately he has been bringing it up everywhere again! Through worship at church, and different things I’ve been listening to. This is the year I believe it was for. A revolution is happening in our country. The time is now to jump. To free fall into a life of grace. To stand up and walk in the uninhibited joy of the Spirit without fear of what is below, knowing our Lord and Savior is giving us the key. The key to kingdom life! This isn’t our home, our home awaits us, and our King is the Lord. Our King wants to trade beauty for ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, and he will do just that if we fall on our knees and ask him to shower us in the spirit everyday.
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn; to grant to those who mourn in Zion- to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.” -Isaiah 61:1-3
Candace Clark 