Recharge…

My best friend, Mel, and I have been friends since our moms started working together as nurses at the local clinic when we were third graders. Now, many years later, her family feels almost like my own. I love them dearly and couldn’t imagine life without them in it. About five or six years ago, Mel told me some big news in their family: their older brother, at the ripe age of 30 something, was about to get married. When I heard the news I couldn’t wait to find a way to make it out to their family farm to meet the new little lady who would become part of the family.

I had heard bits and pieces about “Patita” – the woman Mel’s brother, Chris, was engaged to – and have to say, that after hearing the tidbits of info, had to meet her in person. The day I finally met Patita, Mel’s older sister, Amity, was doing a trial run on Patita’s up do for her wedding. As the family and I sat in their living room, with Amity curling Patita’s hair up tight, we could see how much Patita adored Chris, her fiancé. Her gaze, fixed on where he was sitting, told of her adoration of this man…of course she could not stop gushing about him either.

Half-way through her wedding up-do, Patita began to call to Chris “Mi Amore! Mi Amore! Come closer!” He was sitting about 10 feet from her in a reclining chair, but she felt that wasn’t close enough. He smiled, obviously loving her adoration, and moved to a spot a bit closer to her. “No! Mi Amore! Come Closer! Closer!” This exchange of Patita begging for closeness and Chris moving closer and closer continued until he couldn’t have been any closer to her, unless he was sitting on her lap. Once there was nowhere else for Chris to go, Patita turned, looked at us with a smile of satisfaction, and in her cutest Mexican accent said: “Ahhhh! He recharges my battery!”

Now luckily my friend and I weren’t 12 so we didn’t burst out in “ewwws!” but just broke out in laughter.  It’s a memory that we go back to from time to time, usually repeating in the best Mexican accent we can muster “He recharges my battery!”

For some reason I began thinking about that time at Mel’s farm and how it is such a picture of what happens when we are captivated by the Lord. We begin to ask, beg, seek, & long for Him to be closer. And when He comes closer we are recharged. There’s no way we can go through this life keeping the Lord at a distance and expect to feel full or “recharged.” It’s when we ask our Love to come closer and He moves near that life seems right.

So, my encouragement to you is to ask your Love, the Lord, to come near to you…. Ask the Lord to come as close to you as He possibly can and watch how He, who delights in your adoration, will come and rest on you. He will restore you, recharge you, and refresh you with His love.

Know you are so loved today.

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