2007 - Embrace the Rhythm

RHYTHM
1.movement or procedure with uniform or patterned recurrence of a beat, accent, or the like.
2.Music.
a.the pattern of regular or irregular pulses caused in music by the occurrence of strong and weak melodic and harmonic beats.
b.a particular form of this: duple rhythm; triple rhythm.
3.measured movement, as in dancing.
4.Art, Literature. a patterned repetition of a motif, formal element, etc., at regular or irregular intervals in the same or a modified form...
7.the pattern of recurrent strong and weak accents, vocalization and silence, and the distribution and combination of these elements in speech.
(from www.dictionary.reference.com)

It's amazing how God has created so many things to function cyclicly. The seasons progress thru their patterns. The phases of the moon, the tide of the ocean. The water cycles from the sea, evaporates to the sky and then returns to water the earth. A farmer's field prospers when allowed to remain fallow for a season. Even my body has its own rhythms... my circadium clock, my womanly cycle, pregnancy and breastfeeding... all these things have a natural rhythm that beats without my involvement.

We go thru the cycles ourselves... periods of strength inflected by moments of weakness. There are days when we walk in the power of the Holy Spirit and there are days when our feet have yet to hit the floor and already we are overwhelmed. But as in the musical definition of rhythm, there is measurement. In our weakness, God has measured us and He knows exactly what we are able to withstand... we may be hard pressed, but never crushed. We have seasons when we are living on the potter's wheel, where we are molded and fired in his kiln before the beautiful work is revealed.

God made cycles. God made beginnings. Open your Bible... what are some of the first words that you'll see? In the beginning...

We all have the blessing of a new beginning... an opportunity to flow in new creativity and to find the natural rhythm that God has for us.

In the last season of 2006, I made peace with my own rhythm. I stopped trying to be someone else, to do what someone else was doing, and embrace who God made ME to be.

In 2007, I want to continue my walk to be who I was destined to be, defined by God.

I embrace my rhythm.