"When Lloyd Douglas, author of The Robe and other novels, attended college, he lived in a boardinghouse. A retired, wheelchair-bound music professor resided on the first floor. Each morning Douglas would stick his head in the door of the teacher's apartment and ask the same question, 'Well, what's the good news?' The old man would pick up his tuning fork, tap it on the side of the wheelchair, and say, 'That's middle C! It was middle C yesterday; it will be middle C tomorrow; it will be middle C a thousand years from now. The tenor upstairs sings flat. The piano across the hall is out of tune, but, my friend, that is middle C.'
You and I need a middle C. Haven't you had enough change in your life? Relationships change. Health changes. The weather changes. But the Yahweh who ruled the earth last night is the same Yahweh who rules it today. Same convictions. Same plan. Same mood. Same love. He never changes. You can no more alter God than a pebble can alter the rhythm of the Pacific. Yahweh is our middle C. A still point in a turning world." -Traveling Light
Stephen and I are in a rough season where family, health, jobs and living situations are all up in the air. They have been constantly changing and shifting in the past three months that it seems like the moment we finally pop up for air, the waves overcome us, pulling us down again. Thankfully, we have an anchor, a middle C, to hold on to and we are not at the mercy of the waves.
I have been meditating on and thinking of the names and characteristics of God a lot throughout this season. My eyes fixed on who God is... not on the constant waves of change surrounding us.
Here is some of my list. God is...
Truth. Holy. Righteousness. Pure. ALWAYS good. Faithful. Loving. Kind. Compassionate. Just. Creator. Adonai. The Name above all names. Eternal. All-Sufficient. Everlasting. Provider. the God who sees me. Beautiful. Worthy of praise. Slow to anger. Merciful. Gracious. Humble. Strong. Joyful. Savior.
He is my middle C. Unchanging. Unwavering. Constant. Sure. All of those things listed above, he will be them today, tomorrow, and twenty years from now. I can be certain in the uncertainty.
All my love,
Paige
You and I need a middle C. Haven't you had enough change in your life? Relationships change. Health changes. The weather changes. But the Yahweh who ruled the earth last night is the same Yahweh who rules it today. Same convictions. Same plan. Same mood. Same love. He never changes. You can no more alter God than a pebble can alter the rhythm of the Pacific. Yahweh is our middle C. A still point in a turning world." -Traveling Light
Stephen and I are in a rough season where family, health, jobs and living situations are all up in the air. They have been constantly changing and shifting in the past three months that it seems like the moment we finally pop up for air, the waves overcome us, pulling us down again. Thankfully, we have an anchor, a middle C, to hold on to and we are not at the mercy of the waves.
I have been meditating on and thinking of the names and characteristics of God a lot throughout this season. My eyes fixed on who God is... not on the constant waves of change surrounding us.
Here is some of my list. God is...
Truth. Holy. Righteousness. Pure. ALWAYS good. Faithful. Loving. Kind. Compassionate. Just. Creator. Adonai. The Name above all names. Eternal. All-Sufficient. Everlasting. Provider. the God who sees me. Beautiful. Worthy of praise. Slow to anger. Merciful. Gracious. Humble. Strong. Joyful. Savior.
He is my middle C. Unchanging. Unwavering. Constant. Sure. All of those things listed above, he will be them today, tomorrow, and twenty years from now. I can be certain in the uncertainty.
All my love,
Paige
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