Abundance In The Light...

I stay at home with my daughter.  She is so precious.

And funny.

And sweet.

And quick to learn.

And quick to copy.  She copies me.  Talk about accountability.

And while I know that spending time with her is significant I can't help feeling like I'm missing out.  As Josh participates in our church's venture to live out the work of faith in our community this week, I am sitting at home with our daughter.  Feeling like I'm uninvolved.  Not doing my part.  A new season in life for me not being able to go wherever there is a need.

In Just Give Me Jesus today Anne suggests that Nicodemus is looking "...for real life.  Eternal life.  Abundant life," in John 3:1-21.

Is that what I'm still looking for?

Haven't I been born again?  But maybe, like the Israelites, I've taken my eyes off of Jesus and placed them in those familiar places of circumstance,  shortcomings,  of my own ideas of what life should look like.

What, then, does real and abundant and eternal life look like for me today?  If I turn my eyes, my heart, my hands up, what can I see but Jesus and all that he's given?

In chapter 4 verse 21 of John, Jesus says, "But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God."

Do the truth.  Things that can only be done in the light.  Maybe that's all I do today.  Set an example for my mirror-child in the light that she too might live in it and reflect it to others as she grows.  Hasn't he given her to us?  And don't I fill a need by teaching her how to live in the light?  So maybe I'm not missing out and maybe I am doing my part.  Or perhaps definitely.

Then Lord, today, in the hours that are left, let my deeds be done in you, to do the truth and love the light.