Deeper

I’ve been taking a sabbatical day once a month since January.  

My June adventure took me to Seven Falls in Colorado Springs.

I was excited until the day I woke up.

It was raining. Wind, cold, mixed with some hail. Is it really June in Colorado?

I’d hoped that God would change His mind about the place I was to journey.

Nope. 

I walked the mile from the shuttle drop off to the entrance of Seven Falls.

I was already soaked from the rain. I didn’t bring an umbrella because I secretly believed in my heart that the sun would break through the clouds by the time I got there.

Wishful thinking.

I sat under a covered porch. I was wet and cold. No sun. What was He trying to say to me?

A phrase came to mind, but I couldn’t remember the whole scripture. 

“Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.”

I pulled out my phone to Google it. No service in the crevasse of this deep canyon.

I walked over to the base of the waterfall. 

So powerful.

That whispering voice I know so well; I am more powerful than this.

And as if He knew all the longings, hopes and fears of my heart in that moment; Dawna, come with Me, let’s go deeper. 

I whispered, “I don’t want to go deeper, Lord, I want relief.” 

I walked to the observation deck to see the falls from a new height.

It was breathtaking. 

Then I remembered.

“Deep calls to deep at the [thundering] sound of Your waterfalls; 

All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me. 

Yet the LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, 

and in the night His song will be with me.” Psalm 42:7-8 (AMP)

When I go deeper with God, I learn to trust Him more profoundly.

I discover new facets of God.

And new dimensions of myself come to light.

My friend, Susie Stewart, who lost her battle with cancer just before she turned 50, said in the midst if her struggle, “I intentionally didn’t miss my desert time.”

She faced her battle and looked for meaning in it. She didn’t have time to wallow or let this hard circumstance interfere with what God was doing in her life.

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 Go further with Him. It’s worth it.