I wrote on my Instagram September 24 about being so connected to God when I’m outdoors, gardening, riding horses, working at a barn, hiking, farming, you name it. My heart feels in tune with God outside, but as I write this, I am taking my 30 minute lunch break, having moved from one desk to another inside my office.
My heart is longing to be in the wild. Free to experience the full glory of God’s creation. Just like it was when my friend and I rode nearly 400 miles consecutively horseback across Arizona. Just as it was when I was working for horse trainers. Just as it was when I house sat and fed animals on a ranch on the Oklahoma prairie. Just as it is every time I go for a hike somewhere in the Arizona mountains.
I remember clear as day a moment that brought so much peace in my life. We were getting ready for Mustangs on a Mission and a friend and I hauled out some colts to a pasture in Weir, Texas. As we rode through the cattle out there and chatted about life, my heart was so full it could burst. I knew that I wanted nothing more than to steward the land and animals God has created for us for the rest of my life.
My heart is longing to live where it is quiet and peaceful. Where the only noise you hear is crickets and birds, maybe the gurgle of a stream near by. Yet right now I am living in the heart of Scottsdale on the edges of Phoenix, a considerably large metroplex.
My heart is longing to love a husband and kiddos of my own. Yet here I am 26 years old, single, with not a lot of options in front of me thanks to covid.
My heart is longing to run my own business. A unique combination of bookkeeping, writing, and training horses. Yet here I am working 9 hour days in an office barely scraping by.
My heart is longing to be fully content and filled with Christ, nary a stumble in my path. Yet here I am living in a broken world where sin, temptation, and anxiety get the best of all of us.
My heart is longing to worship the Creator of the Universe all the day long and walk with him in the streets of heaven.
Friends, I am here to remind you and encourage us all that we weren’t meant for Earth as it is right now. We aren’t meant to live in the chaos and upheaval. We are designed and created to be in full unity with our Father. God created us to be unashamed, to walk with Him. We aren't meant to do this life guessing what's right or wrong, or trying to make the most of it. Here are a few verses that talk about how and why God created us.
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
Genesis 1:26-28
Adam and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame.
Genesis 2:25
Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
Genesis 3:8
We are meant to walk with God, not hide from him. Not just in spirit but physically present with Him.
"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33
What does this readjusting of our view do for you? Personally, when I can look at life through the lens of eternity, I know, without a shadow of doubt that I can withstand the storms ahead.
Knowing my goal is to walk hand and hand with God one day, I can weather the loneliness just a touch longer. Knowing God’s ultimate plan of redemption, I can walk the path ahead of me even though it looks different than I hoped.
All the while I can be singing praises to my God because He is greater than our circumstances today, yet He knows, understands, and empathizes with each thing we feel today!
Hang in there my friend! The best is yet to come!
Please let me know if I can be praying with you or for you!
xo,
Sara
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