The Year of Loving Dangerously -

I really think my "year" started last year. I'll have to go back into my journal's to find things to share here. So much has happened, it's hard to know where to start. But what I really want to share, is not so much what has happened to me, or what we do, but what God does as we leap. It's His faithfulness, already so evident in our lives...so that while I encourage myself by recounting that, maybe it will encourage someone else also. Thanks Suzanne, for your encouragement. It is a type of "standing stone" to put down an account of what God does in your life. We are supposed to "remember and tell" of God's goodness.
I'll start by telling this one little story. A few years ago I found myself in a terrible depression. So much so, that though I have struggled with depression since I was about 13 years old, I could no longer pull myself out as I used to. I remember God speaking to my heart months earlier telling me He was going to teach me to "rest" in Him. (SOME rest, I thought!) I had no real clue what that meant at the time, though I thought I did. To truly rest "in" God, we rest "from" ourselves. To do that, He allowed this period, where I no longer had anything to give Him. I couldn't be more, do more or give more..much of what the Christian church preaches. I was at the end of myself...which is where He wanted me. He can't do much in our lives till we are at that very place. So with my head on my kitchen table....literally....I remember telling God, like David, "where else do I turn for life...you alone are God. I know that without doubt, and I have no where else to turn but you." It was the cry of disappointment in God. He appeared to be doing nothing. But He was underground and very busy, as I was to find out later. I started seeing signs....everywhere I went.."Behold, I'm doing a new thing." I would hear it on the Radio, see it quoted in a book, I actually saw it on an electronic sign going down the highway! After a while I stopped counting how many times God brought that scripture to my eye's. It got so that it really made me smile, then laugh out loud. At the flashing electronic sign, I said, "ok, ok!! I get it!! Your doing a New Thing! And thus began my rest.
Isaiah 30:15a
For thus the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, has said, "In repentance and rest you will be saved, In quietness and trust is your strength."......