The curious thing...

Hi there,
If you are new to this blog - I suggest you go back to about a year ago when I began a new learning curve and read the progression of discoveries.
Life has been full - and good. Now there are less deadlines, I hope to write more often.
So many prayers have been answered lately. I have cried out with groans for things to change, for years in some instances... and now they have. Is this about his timing? Maybe... but it is also about the fact that my heart is ready. There is a curious thing - we pray that situations will change, people will change... and underneath it all - he is aiming at US being changed. I have talked to a number of people on this... and we have agreed, that when our hearts are aligned with the Lord's, when his love has washed and renewed US, this sort of 'rubs off' on those people we consider 'need to be changed'. A friend said that since she had heart renewal, her previously antagonistic sister now calls her for prayer, and there no longer seems to be a barrier in HER heart. Curious, isn't it!

My husband and I are enjoying a new paradigm of viewing life through the lens of being held and loved by the Father... and it has now changed our hearts towards each other. Before - I had a list of things I felt we could not talk about and make progress... there seemed to be blank walls - but now, there is no list and no walls. And we haven't had to battle through hard conversations. It has all melted away in the Father's love.
You see, when Love comes, fears, demands, complaints, defensiveness, assumptions... they just melt away. I made some suggestions to my beloved about a more effective way to do something (touching his most precious area of self-worth) and he did not flinch one bit. I was astounded! He just said, 'OK, I'll try and remember that. Thanks' Not a flicker of defensiveness. What freedom! What a joy. This is 'the power of his love.'