Since being on the Race people have given me two pictures when they pray for me. They get images of birds and flowers. Birds flying and flowers blooming. White birds and white flowers.
Here’s a word that I received from my coaches, John and Joanne:
"You were a crushed flower for a while. The Lord is replanting you in this new season and He is saying 'Blossom my daughter – let your roots go deep and let your fragrance go wild.' Trust Him. He will take care of you. Because when you are a blossom you are out there exposed to the world. You will bear fruit in your life – you were crushed too long. Trust Him in the blossoming. God will teach you how to create new roots that are anchored in His love. He will give you new roots of faith, generosity, for the future and for fellowship. Don't be afraid to be feisty with the devil. Even a rose as thorns to stick him."
I have felt the Lord using these two symbolic pictures, flowers and birds, to work so much in my life these past months. I have been overwhelmed by the favor of the Lord bringing me to new places of freedom and openness.
As I was praying about it the other day, God brought me to a familiar scripture.
“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is a live and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore, do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.” Matthew 6:25-33
He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the flowers of the field. He is and will provide for me. And I know that as he calls me into this new season on the Race and beyond, my heart has no reason to feel anxious. I’m choosing to trust to open my hands, my heart. To be lifted by the Lord. To bloom and to fly.
