Living in "thankful tension"

I stumbled upon Grace's Pastor's wife's blog tonight and was delighted to find that I will have the blessing of her wisdom feeding me and inspiring me all the way up here! I never took the opportunity to get to know her, but her influence certainly reached me while we were with GBC. If you would like to visit her site, it is www.tristiefisher.com.

Here is something she wrote the other day that really resonates with me right now:

The lives of Adonirum and Ann Judson of Burma and Robert and Mary Moffit of Africa give me encouragement in their constant commitment to “usefulness”, not necessarily personal fulfillment. How glorious to have our mind expanded to worship God not just for what I ask Him for but because HE is! Can He move? Yes. Can He heal? Yes. Can He change us? Most definitely. May we live in lives of “THANKFUL TENSION”..tense because we want freedom from pain but thankful because He is and we are allowed to see.

Perhaps this will be the week He will cultivate in us a mind of thankfulness and a yielded heart of patience. Our worship will be a fragrance to the Creator God who grandly hung the stars in the sky and STILL bends His ear to hear my eager, yet smaller, requests.