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Amy Gannett

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    Ministry in the Day of Small Things

    August 22, 2018August 25, 2018

    I graduated from seminary with a sense that theology would change the world. In part, I was right: the truth of who God is has changed everything about who I am and everything about the community in which I live. I walk the streets with this inheritance in hand – hope for any and everyone

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    • The Gospel teaches us that God gave His only Son on our behalf that we might become sons and daughters of God. I’ve never felt the weight of this reality the way I have as I held this little girl close to my chest. God’s love is in-human, extraordinary, and beyond our limited comprehension. Can you believe how much He must love us?
    • My absolutely favorite part of our new routine. While I feed Emerson in the early morning, Austin reads to us from Scripture and we pray together. It has been the most joy-filled, tender reading of God’s Word I’ve experienced in some time ... His promises made all the sweeter from short nights of sleep and an aching body awaiting renewal. I’m realizing that it’s in these days that I don’t have the time to not be in the Word; I don’t have the capacity to navigate my day without prayer. This is the gift of humility and human frailty — a reminder of our limits and our limitless God.
    • My heart might literally explode. This man has taken the best care of me and little E this last week. He’s stayed up late and gotten up early, gone out to get what we need so that we can stay in, and done a million other small tasks to make us comfortable and content. He’s such a gift to us.
    • We’re reading Hebrews in our quiet time right now. This morning we read chapter four about there being a rest reserved and kept for the people of God. There’s an ultimate rest kept in heaven for us — a final, full rest in His sweet presence. And as we practice sabbath here and now, we get a glimpse of its sweetness. We get a foretaste of the goodness the rest God’s gifts to His people. Our sabbath board looked a wee bit different last night as one of us bounced Em to sleep and we took turns eating from a thrown together cheese board made from what we have in the fridge and pantry. But it’s still a taste. A glimpse. A foreshadowing as we look ahead to the rest of heaven with joy, gladness and gratitude.
    • Emerson Grace joined the family Tuesday night! She is 8lbs 1oz and 19inches of squishy, smoochable goodness. @ajgannett and I are totally smitten and so thankful the Lord brought her into the world healthy, safe, and with enough rolls to make you want a side of butter. 🧡
    • I always anticipated that pregnancy would make me body conscientious, and that it would always be in a negative way. But even though I’ve fought old insecurities and preached truths against the lies throughout this pregnancy, I’ve also been thoroughly surprised. It has shocked me how thankful I am for this body and what it does, for the sacrifices it makes for our little girl, the changes it has endured. I’ve realized anew that our bodies are a gift ... God’s given means for us to do good, provide care and, in pregnancy, offer sacrificial hospitality. You’ve heard me say it before, but I’ll say it again: we are our bodies. We don’t have any means of service or method of love apart from the flesh and bones God has given us. We sacrifice and care in and through these bodies — just as our Lord did in the incarnation. And so it’s totally fair to say that pregnancy has made me body conscientious; it has given me a deeper awareness of the way God has called us to love and serve, enabled us to love and serve, and given us an example of embodied love and service in the person of Christ. Such joy.
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