Rarely is there a day that I drive onto these grounds that I am not immediately aware of the beauty of, the glory of, the Lord. His Presence permeates the very air that we breathe here in this place called KESWICK.
Yes, it's true that this place can, at times, have its fill of sorrow and pain because, well, life happens to all of us. Sometimes the details are all wrapped up in the pains and sufferings of those we love. Other times, it involves those we get to know for brief moments of time as they come and go from a conference or a summer Victory week.
Most often, we become carriers of hope, agents of change coming alongside those whose lives are caught up in the bondage of addiction. All the dramas that you can imagine and many more you can not are played out, lived out before us, and it is all a part of the work, ministry and life here in this holy place called KESWICK.
I praise God for the beauty of, the glory and the POWER of His Spirit in this place. I am grateful that it is His Spirit which supercedes all that we say and do. Because of Him we are able to, day-by-day, do the work He alone has called us to.
There's laughter and tears, joy and sorrow, fun and games, etc. Most of all there is faith to believe, to trust, to go on and allow God to increase as we learn by trial and error to decrease.
Sometimes I look around at all the people that God chose to call and equip to do this work and I have to chuckle, sometimes to myself and sometimes out loud. I laugh because, basically, were all a bunch of nuts, beautiful nuts that He collected and put into one place, to be about His business in all the assorted different ways that we are uniquely designed.
This time of year you can go to the store and find bins full of assorted nuts, each one different in looks, taste, texture. Some prickly and bumpy, while others are smooth and round, thick, thin, and so on. When I see a bin full of nuts like that, I can't help but think about the body of Christ that God chose to gather for such a time as this and all I can do is sing His praises, thanking Him alone that in the thick and thin of it we are united, with all our different flavors and taste for a single purpose - to be Jesus with skin to a world that is lost, sick, hurting and will surely die apart from the hope and life of the Gospel.
Wherever you are, whatever church you are planted in, wherever you are working, remember to keep the main thing, the main thing and be about the Father's buisness.
Stephanie
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