Five Minute Friday : Whole

August 5, 2011

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5 Minute Friday, spirituality, wholeness

Whole. That’s the word, hummingbird.

What does it mean to me? In an earthly sense, it brings to mind elusiveness. In a spiritual sense, it brings to mind its true, intended meaning: completeness.

Then, why do I find myself still feeling from time to time a sense of longing? Is it really just impatience brought on by the 100% knowledge and faith that wholeness is out there, just waiting for me?

Wholeness is what I feel when I know that someone is praying for me. It’s what engulfs me when I consider how wholly God loves me, in spite of all my fits and starts, my slips and slides, my ups and inevitable downs.

Whole is what I know anyone can be if they truly believe that our God is a God of unconditional love. That does not mean that he condones any unrighteous thought or behavior we are behind; it just means that he is wholly capable of forgiving us for whatever it is and that he loves us anyway.

Whole is what we get in the way of for ourselves.

2 responses to “Five Minute Friday : Whole”

Martha Grimm Brady

Aug 7, 2011 at 8:57 am

nice blog:) i think you have an important typo in the next to last paragraph. wouldn’t mention it except it gives the opposite meaning you intended:(
re you main idea, i think the concept of longing is one that is a healthy one for the christian. Abraham had it according to Hebrew, as he looked for the place where the builder and maker was God. he never got there in his life time, yet he was a man of faith. same thing happened for the patriarchs and the remnant of believes throughout the old testament! they never saw messiah…yet they still believed!
don’t you think that is why revelation is in the Bible…so we know that something better than now is coming? we have way more than the old testament believers had. we can look back on the cross, we have the holy spirit to guide us, but we are still broken people living in a fallen world. the cross broke the power of sin over us so that we don’t HAVE to sin, but we do anyway.
we look forward, as pilgrims in a foreign land, to the day when we will be with Him in heaven…no more sin, no more satan and the effects of sin…at all!
now that is something to cheer about!

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1. themadrecadre
  
  Aug 21, 2011 at 8:24 pm
  
  Thanks, Martha! And BIG thanks for pointing out that typo — I have gone back and inserted the word “not.” Eeeeek. Changed the meaning, indeed! The “in faith” passages in Hebrews are some of my very favorites! Sorry I just saw that you’d left a comment — I work in education, and the past few weeks have been consumed with back-to-school preparations, as well as whole-new-job preparations for me.
  
  I agree that longing is something healthy for believers . . . I so look forward to being caught up in the air!
  
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