Eucharisteo, remembering with thanks, this is the bread. We take the moments as bread and give thanks and the thanks itself becomes bread. The thanks itself nourishes. Thanks feeds our trust.
And it swells up in me and I can’t stop it, this surging sense of emancipation. Over a steering wheel in a white pickup, I can’t help this glorious laugh, the laugh of the unafraid and the bold, the giddy hope of the bread carriers, the manna eaters.
Until home and Promised Land and complete clarity, I’m a wanderer crossing bridges, wanderer eating manna, eating mystery. For really, as long as I live, travel, is there ever anything else to eat? I either take the “what is it?” manna with thanks, eat the mystery of the moment with trust, and am nourished another day-or refuse it….and die. Jesus calls me to surrender and there’s nothing like releasing fears and falling into peace. It terrifies, true. But it exhilarates. This, this is what I’ve always wanted and never knew: this utter trust, this enlivening fall of surrender into the safe hands.
There is no Joy without Trust
I can feel all the sinews releasing, the opening of the heart chambers; the unfurling of a life into one reverberating, exultant yes! “For no matter how many promises God has made, they are ‘Yes’ in Christ” (2 Corinthians 1:20 NIV).
Yes in Christ!
To the Enfleshed Yes who said yes to this moment and yes to last year’s illness and yes to the cracks of my childhood and yes to the nail and yes to my name in the Book of Life, hear me say YES! Not “I’m worried.” Not “I’m stressed out.” Not “I’m anxious.” Not “I’m too afraid.” Hear me say thank you. Hear me say Yes! Watch me live life of yes: To all that was and is and is to come. The power of sin and death and fear-sent-from-the-Enemy are forever ended because we can trust in the bridge even if it’s caving, in God even when it’s black, in manna-nourishment even when we don’t know what it is. The God whom we thank for fulfilling the promises of the past will fulfill His promises again. In Christ, the answer to the questions of every moment is always Yes.
The answer is always YES!
One Thousand Gifts – Ann Voskamp a writer with DaySpring (a division of Hallmark). www.aholyexperience.com
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