AWOL

To (and in) the world, these past few weeks I disappeared and would be labeled AWOL – “Away With Out Leave”. To me (and God) in recent time I appeared and truly have been AWOL – “Always With Our Lord”.

The question, whose answer needs sharing, remains why was I AWOL? Excuses would say I was knee deep in moving residence or heart deep in following a new venture. Reality proclaims I was soul deep, not budging an inch, in re-stabilizing my life journey of “Always With Our Lord”. My vanishing was not a disappearance but an exposure of WHO never loses sight of me and WHOM is revealed in all my eyes perceive and receive.

In my challenges, God is with me helping me keep focusing on HIS closeness and HIS illuminating victory, even when it seems lightyears away. In directional choices, God is the only roadmap capable of guidance through washed out roads, mountainous terrain, deep and dark valleys, bewildering forests, tides toppling castles on the sand and, also, serene, wide open spaces of peace.

This past month, I’ve travelled all of these paths, but God, not I, has piloted each mile. Every leg of the journey has revealed the destination is not somewhere out there that I need to reach, but rather, SOMEONE right here whose wisdom and love longs to teach. My being has not gone through the plight of being lost. It has been blessed with the delight of being re-founded. My pencil has been silent, so written on my life could be newfound understanding and appreciation for “Be Still and Know That I Am God”. Psalm 46:10 (NLT).

I have not been “Away With Out Leave”. I most definitely, and forever will be, “Always With Our Lord”. Amen and Halleluia!!!