Looking to Jesus
I sat.
A beautiful
sunroom with the fall maples’ splendors.
Lost.
Loss.
Years ago,
left Honduras, where my heart was at.
That
summer,
left Texas.
Loss of
strength, health.
Good-bye to
friends. Adios, mis queridos.
Living with
my grandmother—her loss of memory, strength.
I wrote. I
watched the green leaves blaze into color, stupendous last breath, before they
died. I wrote.
From my
living skeleton, emaciated yet breathing, I hoped. Faithed. Wrote. This is my book:
Looking to Jesus.
A snapshot
of my journey in 2014. I engraved in black and white type the embodied encouragement
I prayed-breathed for my grandmother. I inked the yearning for me and for all
those who are struggling, for all those who seem to be in the fall or winter of
life. I inscribed the Spirit’s paracleting to me, come-alongside with his
compassion and light. Light! This is Looking
to Jesus.
No matter
what the future held, just as those leaves burned, I burned with love and faith
for my Lord. Whatever the winter looked like, whatever the spring life would
look like, the spring life that is fostered underneath the carpeting snows, I
would look to Jesus and trust. This is Looking
to Jesus.
Looking to
Jesus, I am still alive, three years later. Resurrection. The burning colors of
faith fell, but bore fruit and spring blossomed with new life. Look to Jesus!
So come,
look to Jesus with me.
How can you
help? These are small steps, but they really help!
1. Share
the news of my new book and the Amazon link: http://tinyurl.com/lookingtoJesus
2. Once a
week for the next few weeks, share a quote that you like from my book with the
link to Amazon.
3. Share
the video on my book, and like it on YouTube.
4. Post why
you enjoy the book and the link on Amazon.
5. Like my Stone’s Cry page on Facebook. Likes
help! Invite friends!
6. Share my
weekly blog posts.
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8. Comment
and interact with my weekly blog posts.
9. Follow/subscribe to my blog.
10. Follow
my Amazon author page.
11. Post a
review on Amazon.
Looking to Jesus by Gillian Ferwerda
Welcome to
a path of suffering, your own pilgrimage. It is an invitation we do not want,
but we all encounter it at one point or another. Yet God uses our suffering to
invite us to drop masks and dross. It is a welcome to community, the great
cloud of witnesses that have journeyed this path before. It is welcome to a
deeper faith. But greater yet, in our suffering we can find the embrace of our
Father, know the all-quenching power of Christ, and dwell in the intimate
comfort of the Counselor. Come, journey on a path together, seeing the blossoms
from the storm. Come, look to Jesus. Here you’ll find a collection of short
writings around seeing the goal, the ditches and troubles, encouragement to
strengthen, and an emerging calling from our suffering as we look to Jesus. If
you or a loved one are looking for encouragement in suffering, sickness, aging,
disappointment, relationships, circumstances--Jesus is with you. In a
grace-and-gospel filled way, written from the author's own journey, we together
lift our eyes to Jesus.
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