Restoration frees us here

How am I to be in the world?....How can I be a believer in today's world in such a way that it involves my whole self--my passion, my intelligence, and my allegiance? My question always invites me to return to the desert. Alan Jones in Soul Making

Have you ever had a day that was so encouraging, and where you felt as if everything was coming together in some cosmic God-driven way, and the goodness and sweetness of it overwhelmed you? Your everyday annoyances, the things that grate, irritate, and wound seem less uncomfortable for a moment, and you find yourself in a moment where you felt truly alive.

I think that happened today.

It wasn't anything monumental, if you look from the outside. It was a women's professional development group where approximately ten women in my field talked about finding our voices and this distinct gifting and calling we have as psychology professionals. It was a conversation about being relational, authentic, and uniquely who we are as the beloved of God, dispensing grace to others, in the same way it has been dispensed to us.

It was feeling at home in the therapist's chair and feeling such overwhelming love for my clients that I felt for a moment I was seeing each of them through God's eyes. Of feeling so excited about the even smallest glimmers of possibility and potential in their lives, that I cannot wait for each client to find the small glimmers of hope that you see and she has yet to uncover for herself.

It was two friends show up to work out with me after work. It was coming home to a husband who had half of dinner cooking on the stove. It was the snuggle of kitties and the comfort of having nothing that HAD to be done.

They are rare, but needed, and I am thankful for today.