Log cabins are like pregnancies

Is that my most irrational-sounding blog title yet? Probably so. God has me at that place where i'm looking down the mountain, so to speak, at all He's done in my life in the past year. At the same time, there is a fire in my belly and zest in my blood that has me earnestly looking toward the future. The most immediate portion of that future is building a log cabin, by hand, with a friend of mine and a few of his family members starting next Tuesday. The state of the cabin is this...it has a clean foundation, with nothing on it. It is waiting to be give life, structure, design, personality...

....just like a newborn. It is no coincidence that Jesus used, when talking to perhaps his most challenging conversationalist [Nicky, in John 3], the metaphor of pregnancy for the spiritual process. Planning for the log cabin-building stage of my life has made me realize how much effort God went to to annihilate everything out of my life and start over with a 'newborn' foundation. Exactly one year ago, he was beginning to build on a stone cold empty foundation. How life has changed.

So yeah, i think Log cabins are just like pregnancies...they start with a clean slate. Furthermore, they require patience, persistence, and planning. It's going to be hard work. And you know it in advance.

The spiritual life is no exception. I have been feeling lately as if i have been doing something wrong...while i think i am rusty, i have been resting. But most of the answer God gives me cycles back to the fact that...

i have been living parts of my childhood that got omitted, in many ways, the past year.

Its been humbling to accept, but its true. There is nothing wrong with that, as long as i transition out of that stage starting in 60 days. Its a good thing....it is the natural part of my life that has been supressed, coming out. Sort of like a new life coming out of its mother. You can't keep it in, even though it is young, undaunted, and in need of maturation.

We all have our areas in need of rebirth....may His true life well up in us and might we be constructed with the solidarity, sound footing, majesty, and rustic appeal that a log cabin can offer. May others find shelter, warmth, comfort, and love within the cabin walls of our hearts, souls, and minds....

might we love Him with our all. That is all there is.