The Best Video I've Seen

I went to a women's conference last night here in Bolivar. Open to the community and non-denominational, it was a good experience as I was feeling weary and worn out with life's cares. It was great to see so many lovely faces - ladies I knew from various places. Women from 15 to 95 filled the auditorium - there were a lot of people there. We sang and there were skits. We prayed together and there were lots of hugs. It felt peaceful and powerful and right - sort of filled up the dry well of my soul with "living water." It is so good to know that I am not alone in my struggle to balance being a wife, career, motherhood, and navigating the joyful, painful, and often confusing world we live in. All of us were "in it together" so to speak.

While there I saw the most wonderful video - it truly affected me.
The feelings and images it evoked in me will stay with me for a long, long time.

I found it online today and felt the need to post it here.




These links also work - the first one is better quality and bigger, I think.

http://www.godtube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=ee73e63418003b47d7d5

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyheJ480LYA

Sometimes the problems of the world and of my paitents (who come to me for help) are so much bigger than I am. (Not sometimes - all the time.) Honestly, in the last few months I have sat hand in hand and heart to heart with a gentleman who lost his love of 50 years, a girl who can't stop cutting herself to try to relieve the pain in her heart, two women who are held captive by the need to self-medicate their pain with LARGE quantities of alcohol, one who lost her precious little one in the second trimester....I could go on and on.

There are no easy answers for these things - no quick fixes or magical solutions. When I cry with them and offer them what hope and help I know - the best I can really offer them is love. I can love them because I have known the unconditional love of the Father that gives me the strength every day to keep loving and hoping and fighting. I can hope that somehow, through prayer and the love of others, they can know the unconditional love and never-ending strength of the Creator that longs to "gather (My) children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings." (Matthew 23:37)

So when I look into the future and I am afraid - when I hate my own weakness and selfishness - when I cry for the suffering I see around me, I remember to huddle under His wings and to stop long enough to feel His arms around me and hear His whisper "and lo...I am with you always...even unto the end of Earth."

Lori