Initially I started this blog as a statement of entering a new phase with the Lord and considered the title an appropriate tag for that new phase, but as I sat here looking at it tonight, I realized it's more than that. This next phase is about moving forward, too. It's about running to the edge, jumping off, and diving headlong into the deep water below, knowing full well the risks it will entail...
It makes me think of a quote from C.S. Lewis,
"He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity; down further still, . . . to the very roots and seabed of the Nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the whole ruined world up with Him.
[He is like a] diver, first reducing himself to nakedness, then glancing in mid-air, then gone with a splash, vanished, rushing down through green and warm water into black and cold water, down through increasing pressure into the death-like region of ooze and slime and old decay; then up again, back to colour and light, his lungs almost bursting, till suddenly he breaks surface again, holding in his hand the dripping, precious thing that he went down to recover."
Jesus, let me not lose courage as I leep from the cliff or as I dive deeper & deeper fearing loss of breath. You are my breath of life, the true vine. And as I go deeper, help me to bring others along with me, into the depths of life with you...and when the time comes, let us surface with the very precious thing you sent us down for: life.
