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“What Will You Live For – Give It Voice”
Scripture Readings: Isaiah 55:6-13 and Mark 5:1-20
Parenting will strip you down, revealing your weaknesses. It will ask for more than you have at any given moment and ask you to give your life when you feel you have nothing left to give. If you thought about the literal costs and the personal investment it takes to parent, you might tremble or turn and run from the endeavor.
Parenting is also a crucible in which God remakes you into a vessel capable to pouring out love and mercy while giving gifts that others will need to survive and thrive. And it leaves room for the loves songs we will live and write with our lives.
Isaiah 55 says God’s Word goes out and doesn’t return until it accomplished its purpose just like the rain falls and does not return to heaven until it has watered the earth, filling the lakes and rivers and giving life to the earth.
Perhaps also, God is busy parenting us, pouring out love and mercy, while giving us gifts that we will need to survive and thrive.
Listen to the struggles of one young woman, looking for life… and wrestling with herself and her father to search out what it means to live and thrive in the world.
There are many ways that the love and gifts of God invite us into the world to discover and to acquire the gifts that are needed in the world…. But living this adventure is a beautiful love song…. A Golden melody to the Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier whose purposes are accomplished and who’s love song continues to resound in the lives and hearts of those who love God.