2: Leading to Love

Take My Hand Inspirations

TAKE MY HAND, PRECIOUS LORD

By Thomas A. Dorsey © 1937

Precious Lord, take my hand

Lead me on, let me stand

I am tired, I am weak, I am worn

Through the storm, through the night            

Lead me on through the light

Take my hand, precious Lord

And lead me home

Leading to Love

Breathe . . . and feel.  Breathe . . . and feel.  Stretch your heart toward the clouds . . . and feel.  The warmth of our Saviour’s love is hidden in His bosom of grace . . . for today.

Disappointment is a setback in your leading to love.  Leading is an action that requires forward motion with others following: your peers, your siblings, your children or pupils, even strangers.  All are watching you, dear Christian, with a hope that you can show them how to overcome the hurts, the pains, the troubles, fears and trauma that this old world fires in aim at blowing you up along with your plans to enter into the heavenly kingdom.

For whatever is born of God overcomes the world.  And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith. (1 John 5:4)

Cecil’s heart was ripped wide open, stripped and lay naked breathless, barely beating.  It was punctured by . . . he couldn’t even describe the horror of what Job lamented when he languished, “For the thing I greatly feared has come upon me.  And what I dreaded has happened to me (3:25).” 

He loved (with his whole heart). He trusted (with his whole mind). He served (with all his might).  Then a misunderstanding “breaks” (more like bulldozes, blasts, obliterates) his heart with words that were far from the truth he was living in; and, in this case, he can’t speak, for do so would tear apart someone else’s world.  And so our brother prays for increased faith and for more grace to keep him feeling. . . as he earnestly struggles for reconciliation, restoration and, most of all, for love.

You, too, know, deep down, what could happen if you stop feeling.

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

There is no one path to healing.  It’s different for each of us.  Indulgence in distractions—fornication (sexual release), drugs (prescribed or not), alcohol (soft or hard), films (clean or dirty), pretentions (lying or hiding), anger (revenge or bitterness), and/or self-pity (“why me?”)—doesn’t heal the wounded heart.   It only delays and often derails the path leading to love.

The healing is found in the strength of your faith.  The stronger your faith, the closer you are to healing.  Faith is that part of us we cannot see; we cannot touch.  We feel (we believe, we know) it.  We feel that everything is going to be alright despite the mess we see all around us.  We believe and somehow know deep down inside that one day everything will positively change and that God will make everything even better than it was before.  Tears will transform into genuine smiles; and helplessness (hopelessness) will turn into the trail that leads you home, to that place in your heart where forgiveness, joy and perfect peace live.

Take my hand, precious Lord

And lead me home . . .

A Prayer Leading to Love

Dear Lord,

Go deep into my disappointed heart where the pain is.  And heal . . . .  Close every door to bitterness, uncontrollable anger and unforgiveness.  Then allow me to open my heart to Your infinite Love; and overpower me in Your everlasting mercy reminding me that I, too, have sinned once, or twice, or more than thrice, against You and my fellow brother, sister, father, mother.  So, I must give back Your gift of mercy to the ones who hurt me most.  Give me Your grace to do this, O Lord, and finally be healed. 

Amen.

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Take My Hand Inspirations