"What if loneliness is the cost?
Would you still go?
Would you still run?
Would he still hear your desperate cry?
Would you still love Him?
“Take the world!
But give me Jesus.”
I will walk this road. He is so worthy…
I write this because I sense times ahead when I am going to feel alone. Yes, God made us to not be alone. He made us for relationship. He made us for community. And I sense a time before me in which I will miss those who understand who I really am, that I’m not perfect, that I’m not your priest, that I am not better at following Jesus than you are. I’m broken, frail, fragile, needy, weak, poor…and if I seem intense, it’s because Jesus is my lifeline. I depend on him to LIVE. So if I seem crazy, it’s for him.
And I will cling to Him even it means I must feel alone.
For I shall never BE alone. He is ever with me. God never forsakes me. I can cling to One who is SO faithful."
-Laura Welch
*sigh and smile* God you know I needed this!
Ha ha... I read your latest entry...Unraveling... Loved it btw and then saw on the side.. written by Laura Welch and was like, what? It's funny how you can read something you wrote and be like, "I wrote that, when?" But after I kept reading, I remembered. Right before I left for Florida...
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