I have an idea that managed to get dropped into my think tank sometime in the last few weeks. I can’t really tell you what the idea is, first of all, because it is still swirling around in there looking for a place to settle into… and secondly, because some ideas are better once they have been birthed into a real thing. If I shared what I am thinking before it has time to define itself, it usually comes out sort of ridiculous and get’s lost in the telling … no no no says I!

Sometimes, it is better to be an Idea Savings Account, than an Idea Mr. Microphone, if you get my drift!

These last few weeks have felt somewhat like a furnace, as far as survival goes, but I’m made of tough fibers… have been since birth! I’m almost beginning to think that I write better under pressure or heavy flames. I’m actually getting to the point that I seldom flinch from the sparks that can sometimes singe my soul… and I honestly don’t seek to know why anymore. 

In the bible, Hebrews 11:1-3 says,

“Now faith is the confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. ² This is what the ancients were commended for. ³ By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible.”

With this truth in mind, I am getting better at walking just one day at a time… there is a sweet peace in this type of surrender that is beyond words. 

I cannot describe this place of the heart, as it is a very personal and intimate place within my spirit that only God dwells. Everyone has this place so don’t feel left out! I want to share one of my favorite verses with you, as it confirms my belief in this place within each of us…

⁹ However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen,
    what no ear has heard,
and what no human mind has conceived”^[a]—
    the things God has prepared for those who love him—
¹⁰ these are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit.
The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. ¹¹ For who knows a person’s thoughts except their own spirit within them? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. ¹² What we have received is not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may understand what God has freely given us. ¹³ This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, explaining spiritual realities with Spirit-taught words.

1 Corinthians 2:9-13

I know I could have just shared the little bit in the middle, but I love this verse and wanted you to read it in its whole form… besides, this is my blog and this IS Thoughtful Thursday! Who else’s thoughts would you expect to find in here, right?!