Streams in the Wasteland

Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not
percieve it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.
- Isaiah 43:18-19

... It's almost like Jesus is speaking to me when i read this.

It's almost like... i'm standing there, face to face with him and he's holding my face in his hands, looking into my eyes with his full of excitement; an expression of elated confusion as like a child who is thrilled about something, and cannot figure out why you don't understand.

"See" he says, " I am doing a new thing!" full of excitement, as like a travelor who has just figured out a new way on the map. He points out with his arm, his whole body tense with emotion.

" Now it springs up; do you not percieve it?" do i not percieve indeed. As though, how could you possibly not percieve it? and yet i cannot see.

" I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland." as like an explorer in the 1500's or what have you, discovering the new lands.
Making a way in the wilderness, how do i not percieve it?
streams in the wasteland do i not see it?

Perhaps because i'm " dwelling on the past."
maybe i've not " forgotten the former things" ... so i cannot see the " new thing"

Much like Lot's wife. She was dwelling on the past, she looked back and was not able to see the new thing.
She turned into a pillar of salt.

Let me not turn into a pillar of salt.
Let me not dwell on things long gone rather let me percieve the new thing.

My LORD, the one i follow is making the way for me. As i follow him on this new wilderness, he takes pride in making a new way. A way in the wilderness, his being is lit up and elated as he leads the way, knowing that should i choose to trust in him, he will show me the way.

This is what he does, and he finds joy in the impossible. Joy in changin the way i think. As he leads me to streams in the wasteland, holding my right hand he helps me to percieve it.
This new thing
This beautiful new thing that he knows i can only fully apreciate, when i let go of the past.

On our journey he teaches me. patiently, he finds joy in his work. Helping me realize that i can only do this with him by my side. That i cannot do this by myself brings glory to his name.

Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
See, i am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not
percieve it?
I am making a way in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.
- Isaiah 43:18-19

Love is like oxygen; love is a many splendoured thing; love.. lifts us up where we belong; all you need is love! (Christian, Moulin Rouge!)

Firstly, I'd like to apologize for missing this Sunday's sermon. I was camping, yet again, and forgot to pre-write one. Sorry...

Now, I am working on my book, and sometimes that involves reading stuff that you already wrote. I happened to stumble across a particularly pretty one, and it rang with the same quality of the stuff I write here, so I thought I'd put it down. I'll describe the scene then write down the quote.
So, the character's name is Lily. She is one of my favourite to write about, because she is rambunctious and energetic and always getting herself into sticky situations because of her clumsiness. But around the middle of the book, her whole family dies in a tragic fire. The only reason she wasn't killed was because she was visiting her friend, a slave at a nearby castle. While she is there, she finds out that he was whipped to death for impertinence to his master, and she realizes that she had fallen in love with him too late. Once she sees the ruined pile that is her home, she falls into a severe emotional breakdown and runs away. One of her closest friends, Nathan, comes looking for her and is really the only thing that keeps her from drying up and blowing away in the wind. This is all stretched out throughout the book, as I bounce between characters, and the following quote is when she is starting to get a grip again.

"My dad died," Nathan said. "Mom still considers herself to be married. She told me that as long as she still loves him and not someone else, she is still married. I don't know if she's fallen in love or anything. And apparently, I'm not going to find out."
Lily laughed lightly and Nathan looked pleased. He put his arm around her shoulder and kissed the top of her head. She smiled. "Love is sometimes hard to define," she commented. He looked at her curiously. "Well, I mean, sometimes you say you love a person and you think you love them, so you stay with them all the time until one day, you look out the window and 'fall in love' again. With someone else. Or maybe you'd never even wanted to be in love, and if you were asked if you were, you'd say no. Then, one day, that person is taken away. All of a sudden you realize quite how much and how deep you had fallen." She bit her lip, pausing for a moment and glancing at Nathan quickly. "Then there's the kind of love that you always take for granted. The kind that isn't a passion or a binding, life-long thing. It's just a person who cares and takes care of you. That kind is all around, and we never realize that. And we never even thank them. But really, without those kinds of lovers, our lives would fall apart." She looked up at him, tears in her perfectly azure eyes. "That's why I thank you."

(this is the scene that I took the title from, the quote is right at the beginning)
~Godspede