Jump Start

This morning, I went to Lawton to see the chiropractor….aka my favorite person ever! Afterward, I stopped at the car wash. After admiring the cleanliness of John’s truck, I hopped in and attempted to come home. My attempt was met with a “click click click….” And then nothingness. Dead battery. Stink. What’s a pregnant girl to do in 25 degree weather with a dead battery?! Well, find a remarkably wonderful person to give her a jump start that’s what! I did find this person and was on my way in less than 30 minutes!

On the way home I began thinking about how I also needed a spiritual jump start. I have been in such a funk lately. Partly because of the bed rest and isolation, partly because I am me, but mostly because I have been trying to solve all my problems on my own. Are any of you in need of a jump start? I feel like I just need something to get spiritual energy from. Just as my truck received battery energy from the Land Cruiser, my heart is in need of just that. I wonder how many of us would be in a better place today if we could attach ourselves to a great energy source. Well, we can. I know I know, you need something bigger, something more tangible that just “plugging in” to Jesus. I am there. He was speaking to me on the way home, reminding me that all I needed to do was to plug into His heart, His Spirit, His life. And I said, “I need more. I am desperate to know you are really here.” As I stepped out of my truck the great winds of Oklahoma swept across my face - - - not beautifully as in a movie, but really swept across my face. You know dragging your ever so wonderfully placed hair through your lip gloss all across your cheek -- - - that kind of wind! I laughed and thought, Ok Jesus, I see You!! It was as if He was saying, Hey Kiddo, I am all around you….I am big enough to knock you over with my greatness. All you have to do is attach yourself to me…

Ok Lord. Today, through the wind of this place I see you. I feel you. I will plug into Your awesome power and allow You and only You to jump start my faith…..