Time, its a real page turner

Wise words from Graham Cooke "God does not measure time, he measures growth." I review my journals and think of these words.  Because I am a woman of action, because right now God has given me a time of rest from the heavy, and because I am fighting against this time of rest in my spiritual life, my counselor encouraged me to take a look back at my journals in order to be reminded how much work has been done.  There is only a Vol 1 and a Vol 2.  They are both made of a soft flexible leather and have unlined paper (unlined for the non-conformist in me).  Each entry is clearly dated and marks the timeline of life for the past 2 years.  

I'm amazed at what God has done in this amount of time.  I read a few entries and remember emotions felt at those specific times, much pain, but then there is relief to know how far God has brought me from those places.  He covers the sins against me, my sins against others, the unhealthy ways I thought, the lack of knowledge I had.  God has been so patient with me.  I stayed in the same place for an (overly) extended amount of time, yet He was right there with me waiting for me to look up at Him and take a step toward Him.  He pulled me from the place of self-pity, tore the name tag off me that read "victim," he broke (and continues to break) the chains of codependency, he has gifted a photo of myself that he took of me with his "God camera lens."  This photo can be represented by verses like: Revelations 21:7, Ephesians 1:4, I Peter 1:18-19, Romans 8:37.  It is how God sees me.  Learning to see ourselves the way God sees us allows us to continue to grow to experience the fullness of his love and the fullness of who we are because of Jesus.  And isn't this the journey we are all on? 

I am thankful God placed people in my life who encouraged writing as a way to process my thoughts and emotions.  Because of them I am able to have tangible evidence for myself that God is working on me, a way to measure, that I am His work in progress, He is the potter and I am His to shape and mold.  Keep it up God, I like where you are taking me.