MANY MORNINGS I’VE WOKEN for the day, striving to accomplish things out of my own will and I never seem to accomplish my end goal. “Help me accomplish this,” I’ve asked God. I’ve even prayed, “If it’s Your will, God, help me accomplish this.” It wasn’t until recently that the scales were removed from my eyes and now I have tasted and seen that His goodness is better than all of the ways I’ve ever imagined. I’ve come to realize that through my striving, I’ve been living in the middle of a love story. A love story that looking back slowly reveals the Lord’s constant pursuit as I’ve been tossed around in the sea of waves that life brings. I’ve followed the Way the majority of my life. However, my pilgrimage has primarily been along the paths that I’ve chosen while asking the Way to help me along my OWN chosen ways. The paths I want, not the paths that He has led me to. A year ago the Way opened a door for our family that undoubtedly only He Himself could have opened. Our prayer then became, “Lord, if it’s your will, please provide the way.” As we continually prayed this prayer God continued to confirm His will. Months into our journey we stumbled, and for the first time began to wonder and lament over how God would continue to provide the way. Over the next few mornings of quiet time, the Way revealed these three things: 1. Take risks. 2. Stay attached. 3. Use your gifts and talents. I realized that we had focused on asking God to provide the way, without focusing only on Him, the Way. We could then see that staying attached to the Way Himself, is how our needs are met. Attachment is all that we need and God doesn’t desire our striving or our worldly efforts; He desires our attachment. Stay attached. Stay attached. Stay attached. I wrote in my journal each morning. Through attaching to Him, I realized that God opens my eyes and reveals His glory through desperation that’s always led to total surrender. It’s there that we see that the desires of our heart are completely out of our control, but that the One who is in control, knows our desires. He loves us so much that not only does He know our desires, He knows our hearts. He knows our every thought, every dream, and every wish. He loves us so much that He allows us to be so desperate and beat down over the desires of our heart that we see it’s only through attachment to Him that those desires will ever grow and bloom. Recently I’ve seen the overarching story of God’s sovereignty throughout my life, and it’s a story of Love Himself being revealed. A love story so relentless that God sent his Son to bear the weight of my sins to the point of death, and if that weren’t relentless enough, He pursues me over and over and over again throughout every day of my life. Even through my faults and my failures, He pursues me. He loves me. He gives me a desperation for him that keeps me attached while He continually becomes my Way. The Way that I love so dearly. My forever Way throughout the pilgrimage of my life. There is no greater love story. What do your desires look like? What does God’s love story look like in your life? Are you completely attached and letting Him take care of the desires of your heart, or are you still striving to accomplish them on your own? Are you in love with Love Himself? Stay attached. Open your arms. Totally surrender. Get down on your knees. Give your desires to the Way. The only way that your desires will be fulfilled is by staying attached to the Way Himself, abide in Him! It’s there that you can rest peacefully in God’s comfort and allow Him to pursue you His way. His way is better, stronger, and shows you His love. His way plants a desire to stay attached to the Way. Seek the Way. Take risks. Stay attached. Use your gifts and talents. B y K a c e y C l a n a h a n • P h o t o b y C a r r i e C u n n i n g h a m BeekeepersHill Attached 78 MAY 2025 | INTHEVUE.COM
