What would your reaction be, if you heard this.....
The Magic you are looking for...
is in the work you are avoiding...
I would love to to have seen your face in real-time, in person, ao vivo! I would have like to have seen you think for a minute as the words sunk in... As they found the right places in your mind and heart. I would have loved to have seen your expression the moment it all made sense, in a flash instant. Do you experience the sudden knowing like I did? Or, did you have to reflect longer, maybe a day later when the haunting words that couldn't escape you finally landed.
It if took longer I bet it was because you knew exactly what it meant... you knew that it hit the spot, the core of what makes you tick.....or not. It hit that place that you have kept covered, spent time hiding, or tried to avoid all this time. Or maybe, in your case, it was something dormant or unknown until these few key words shed light and were the keys to discovery, just like a light shining on something new you weren't aware of until now....
Or has it been many days now that you haven't been able to stop thinking about it. Or is this going to be just one more quote from a million of others that pass through quickly and land in the landfill of all old quotes? One that you can't quite remember years later but somehow still has a flicker of familiarity?
If you find it lingers, you have my interest. You have my curiosity.... I am dying to know what your work might be....I think about what it might be.....something dark, something light, something lost, something found, something painful, something joyous, something spiritual, something worldly, something desperate, something peaceful.
As for me, Wow....this gobsmacked me something powerful. It shook me to my core. I had to remember to breathe for a minute after reading. It seemed to soak into my soul so quickly and found all the right places. I knew in an instant what it meant and never had I heard truer words.
to me...it is about:
1. Finding Grace
2. Forgiving myself and others
3. Making Peace with the raging fires within
4. Accepting Healing
5. Holding onto truth
6. Letting go....and trusting Him.... letting go of fear
7. Not just listening to the still small voice, but finding ways to act quickly afterwards
8. Welcoming discipline in my life with a different mindset
All of these things I need so much....and in the end they all lead to a single solitary inevitable source.
At the end of the day, there is only one answer to me. It is finding Christ. He is the magic, he is the source, he is the well of never ending thirst. He is the only balm that heals, that softens the mortar of hard brick walls we build to avoid him. He is the only inevitable thing that ever will be. He makes magic real, because He is magic. He did the impossible, the unthinkable, the unfathomable. He defies all description, His majesty unmatched. They called the 3 Wise men who visited Him "mages".... Isn't that interesting.
Yes, the work both you and I need to do I believe, is about Him. What keeps us then, from experiencing such a thing? Just us....that's it...only us. It is difficult to take this quote seriously and not feel like doing something about it. It is like and affirmation that we didn't even know we needed, but immediately recognize as something we need to do..... at least, that is how I felt. It will now haunt me as it should. Would it be wrong for me to want the same to be for you....?
What if.....we decide to say these words again, I ask you... Shall we not act together, and do the work we need to do? Shall we not find Christ together, you and I. And then in some soon day coming, we can sit on some steps somewhere, and know that magic has filled our lives because we confronted the demons, the darkness, the dungeons of our fear and have done the work needed to save ourselves.
I know I need all the magic there ever existed, to get to where I want to get to. I hope you do too....
