My name is still Danette Dillon. Jackson is still my beloved schnauzer. I still live with my sister, Dalayna, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I still passionately love and serve the CrossPoint community. I'm still involved in the Tulsa Arts community. I still love Jesus and His presence more than life.
Through those constants in life, there's been quite a shifting too. In the blogging world transparency is the best gift we can give a reader. Generally, I'm an open book, but, for now, could have permission just to keep these things to myself? Maybe someday I'll want to share more, but today's not that day.
And it probably won't be tomorrow either.
How can change and consistency coexist? It's like they both live congruently in my life. And I both love it and hate it.
As I've been processing some of the changes happening in my life, I've decided to journal/blog. My experience is not incredibly unique. However, I bet if I'm feeling a little lost, a little hopeless, a little waterlogged, perhaps, there's someone else out there in this great wide world of the internet that might feel the same way. And if someone else feels the same way, then I'm not so lost or hopeless or waterlogged. And, I'm not alone.
And that gives me great comfort.
The writer of Ecclesiastes 3 shares a long discourse on the different seasons of life. There's a time and a season for everything that happens in life, but whether mourning or laughing, God is sovereign. Whether you feel scattered or pulled together, God is sovereign. Whether a war wages deep in my heart and mind or if I live in the perfect place of peace, God is sovereign.
My emotions do not dictate the character of God. He is loving whether I feel Him or not. He is present whether I feel Him or not. He cares for me whether I sense Him or not. He is just whether I see justice or not. My emotions do not define God's character.
And, your emotions do not define God's character either.
I wish that I could tell you that your emotions and your circumstances are going to change. I wish I could tell you that your whole world is going to be turned right side up. From over here in the Upside Down, I wish I could. But I can't.
However, I can tell you that your emotions and my emotions do not change who God is.
And He is enough.
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