The Story

The Prince turned into a heart and then flew away.
The Princess went up the mountain. The heart then turned back into a Prince.
Then the Prince came back and had a tea party with the Princess.
-Dictated by My Daughter

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I asked my 3 year old daughter to tell me a story. What a perfect fairy tale.

The man goes up the mountain (or on an adventure), leaving his love behind. The woman tracks him down before he gets too carried away and brings him home. They live happily ever after…

I’ve been studying the heart of men lately. We sure look for the adventure in life. I think men know that we are made this way on purpose. We’ve got that wild side that can never quite be extinguished.

Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. (John 14:11-13)

I think it’s pretty safe to say that this is a good thing. Jesus was an adventurer, rebel, visionary; he was great. We are created to desire greatness, just not our own.

Let great ideas and adventures grow in your heart. Just imagine…

Up All Night

The quiet is deafening. As I sit at the table only the sounds of my movement join in with those little house shifting creaks. It’s another world.

I can barely sit still. My voice is not booming off of the walls with “Don’t this,” and “Don’t that.”

Imagining another place, I can hear them with my lovely wife.

“Mommy, I’m hungry.”

“All done, all done…”

“Treat!”

And it only took about an hour to start relaxing to the point where I can think. My brain can transfer to the keyboard uninterrupted.

Precious moments…

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Psalm 46:9-11
He makes wars cease to the ends of the earth;
he breaks the bow and shatters the spear,
he burns the shields with fire.
"Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth."
The LORD Almighty is with us;
the God of Jacob is our fortress.
Selah

That’s kind of the point to what many of us call a “Quiet” time. There is a moment when we can know that God is God. It’s not necessarily only when it is actually quiet, but it is when we are still in our perspective.

I had one hour of sleep last night. I am sure I will be tired at some point today, but I had a lot of time to reflect on stillness. Don’t get me wrong, I would have preferred to sleep, but I just couldn’t. Usually it is not a problem for me. For some reason I was awake with my thoughts.

I can’t even relate all the things that went through my brain, but it was nice in the end. I almost felt as if the Lord decided to keep me up so that he could spend some time with me. It took me a few hours to make this assumption. Really I was more interested in being asleep than spending time with God.

The longer I was awake and the more I thought about him – the more excited about his kingdom I became.

Psalm 73:16-18
O God, you are my God,
earnestly I seek you;
my soul thirsts for you,
my body longs for you,
in a dry and weary land
where there is no water.
I have seen you in the sanctuary
and beheld your power and your glory.
Because your love is better than life,
my lips will glorify you.

Hope God keeps you up all night too.