“As she grows in ability and understanding, she will learn and
experience freedom of expression and originality within the bounded creativity
of ever-increasing limitations.”
Have you ever had something you said a long time ago return to
fester in an entirely different emotional tangent?
Originally, this thought process was stimulated by an experience
with my 2 year old granddaughter.
Take my virtual hand for a moment and walk with me up the sidewalk
to the large glass entrance door. Wait while I enter the security code… There…
Now we may go in.
Elderly people…
Some are wheel chair bound, some are in varying stages of mental capability, some are no longer physically able to care for themselves, some have
no relatives nearby, some have no relatives willing to be nearby, some have no
relatives at all.
Some are simply lonely.
Limitations…
Ever-increasing limitations …and what about learning and experiencing
“freedom of expression and originality within the bounded creativity” of these
limitations? Limitations which are anticipated with
excitement in a 2 year old, are translated into dread and anxiety as the
proximity of our own mortality draws increasingly near.
Aging is a stark and aggressively definitive expression of growing
neediness, escalating dependency, cumulative restrictions, and narrowing
possibilities, all cleverly disguised as loss of value, decreased worth, and
hopelessness.
Godless societies will always associate limitations with
hopelessness.
Hopelessness
is Not in God’s Character
“Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can
I flee from your presence?...
…If
I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I
settle on the far side of the sea,
even there
your hand will guide me,
your right
hand will hold me fast.”
~Psalm 139:7-10
As my skills and abilities decrease, so my accompanying expectations
must be resourcefully reevaluated, creatively modified, or boldly eliminated. Yet each defining, limiting, restricting
factor does not, in and of itself, establish purpose or goodness.
“…the bounded creativity of being able
to build something beautiful
based on the character your
ingredients already possess...”
~Kate Buccigross
in
jars of clay (empty vessels)
to show that this all-surpassing power
is from God and
not from us. ...”
~II Corinthians 4:7
The One who shared the yoke when I was able will continue to share
my yoke when I am not. He will remain my
source of challenges, benefits, focus, guidance, pacing, and confidence toward
the task at hand.
Functioning within the limitations of obedience and dependency will
allow me to join the Master in His work as it is accomplished. In doing so, it will become increasingly more
obvious that the Hands of the Creator are filled with expressions of
originality and boundless creativity far beyond limitations.”
“Come to Me, all who are weary and
heaven-laden,
and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from
Me,
for I am gentle and humble in heart,
and you will find rest for your soul.
For My yoke is easy and My burden is
light.”
~Matthew 11:28-30
Freedom is found not in the removal of a yoke, rather in the
exchange of an unsuitable yoke partner for the One whose sufficiency is
unsurpassed.
“Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly
beyond all that we ask or think,
according to the power that works within us,
to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ
Jesus
to all generations
forever and ever.”
~Ephesians 3:20,21
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