Drawn in

Spring has sprung.
And every day I keep watch as buds unfurl and a new flower blooms, the leaves offer full shade now, the sky screams blue, a chorus of birds wakes me in early morning light and grass hugs the bare toes, the laughter of children echoes across yards and fences, a breeze filled with the fragrance of lilac catches me by surprise and I just have to smile.

And from my list of indoor to-dos I can't wait to step outside! I keep walking to the windows, making sure all are stretched wide open. I find myself gazing at the trees...just sitting and gazing on the back deck getting lost in thought.  I find myself drawn to just take it all in...this beauty of the Season.  It truly beckons a soul, doesn't it?  Like a child, asking over and again to come and play...Won't you come and play with me?

And as I sit down to begin thinking and praying through this next study on John 15...where we will sit and meditate and dance with the Almighty this month of June...I am feeling the same draw and hearing the same call.  For we are drawn to beautiful things. We are created for beautiful things. And our God is all things beautiful. And His Word is the window through which we peer into His soul.  Glimpses of the One who dwells in unapproachable light and in His throne room filled with colors the eye has never seen.

We're drawn to the beauty of Creation because it's the work of His hands and He is beautiful.  We're beckoned to His Word because He has set eternity in our hearts and we long to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to know this Beauty.

When I think of John 15...the last bread and wine with His closest of friends. The last words. The last meaningful glances and embraces before He offers Himself in unabandoned sacrificial love...The beauty of this draws me. The beauty of this Call and Promise of this abiding relationship laid out for all His friends here in these words.

And am I allowing myself to become drawn in?

Do I take the time to notice and reflect upon the beauty of Jesus Christ...the living Word?  Do I hear Him beckoning? Calling? Holding out a hand to come and learn the dance of abiding...of me in Him and Him in me.  Because it's beautiful.  Just. beautiful.

As the Spring turns to Summer and whispers "come and play"... tune the ears of your heart to the call of the Shepherd and your eyes to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord in His Word.  Let the pages captivate you with the exquisite beauty of His life and love. Don't stay indoors. Get out...and run free!


One thing I ask from the LORD, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.  Psalm 27:4


No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day.  John 6:44


Shawna