This is my quiet time cliff. It is currently my backyard.
I like to come out here to pray. Sometimes I pray for Ireland. Sometimes I pray for me. (I also like listening to my Irish worship music out here, knowing it was recorded a couple hundred kilometers away.) Today’s prayer time was a little bit of praying for Ireland and the people here we have met. It was also just a time to meet with God for myself.
Meeting with God in nature is one of my favorite things. Sitting there with the wind and the sky and the sea is truly remarkable and makes me to wonder about God’s greatness and goodness. It is beautiful enough to forget about the freezing gusts of wind and sometimes light rainfall.
Today was a hard day for me internally, feeling insecure and basically wimpy. I decided to stay back from dinner with the gang and instead go pray on the cliff. I was reading in Psalm 34. Verse 8 says to taste and see that the Lord is good. Verse 19 says that the righteous man may have many troubles, but the Lord delivers him from them all. This encouraged me, knowing that I might not be the secure brave person I wish I was all of the time- but that God delivers me from my troubles. He says He does, right there. Directly after finishing the Psalm it started to rain, and thus was what I thought an abrupt end to my time on the cliff. I quickly packed up and turned around to run back to camp. I didn’t make it any further than that, as when I turned around there in the sky above me was the largest, fullest, brightest, most complete rainbow I had ever seen. I could see the start and the end. The rain was now at my back, and the rainbow was before me. Rainbows always speak to me of the promises of God (like the rainbow after Noah and the ark). It was like a seal on the deal. Yeah, that word you just read about Me delivering you from many troubles- if you weren’t aware… it’s true. And that part about tasting and seeing that I AM good… well, take a look.
The Lord really encouraged this heart.
I have a blog almost ready about what we are doing here in Galway. This month has been an incredible blessing. I hope to tell you about it soon. Love.
