Eucharistia

Eucharistia is a Greek Word, which means thanksgiving from the heart. I believe, that you have many reasons to thank God too.

As you read this entry, thank God for the privilege.

“But as for me, I would seek God, and I would place my cause before God; Who does great and unsearchable things, Wonders without number.” Job 5:8,9

I’ve always ‘known’ that God knows me. 2009 was a year when I experienced the reality of that truth in my life.

“The Lord is good, a Strength and Stronghold in the day of trouble; He knows (recognizes, has knowledge of, and understands) those who take refuge and trust in Him.” (Nahum 1:7)

Everyone has an unsearchable part in life. Tucked deep within, safe from the external. The things you long for spring forth from this ‘restricted-access’ area of your personality.

Though this is the strongest part of your personality, the tugs and pulls of the world are stronger enough, to push these desires to the back seat and turn your focus on things called, ‘priorities’.

This year, I was engrossed working on my ‘priorities’.Though, I was thankful to God about many things, I was consistently longing for something more. But I could never articulate my innermost needs to God. And at one point I felt totally alienated from everything so dear to me. These were times of emotional and spiritual exhaustion (which also affected my health)  losing myself in a heap of tasks and goals and purposes.

But God did not leave me that way.

I am filled with gratitude when I remember that God showed up in the most unusual ways, to defend my desires, giving thought to my feelings and honoring my interests..

It was His way of saying, “Daughter, I have searched you and I know you”. *

And I tell my Master in return,

“ Who am I, O Sovereign LORD, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far? … What more can I say?  You know what I am really like, Sovereign LORD.

For the sake of your promise and according to your will, you have done all these great things and have shown them to me.” **

I pray to strive harder in the years ahead, to seek my Master in a way He desires, and fulfill the desires of His heart.

Eucharistia.

* Psalm 139:1

** 2 Samuel 7:18-29