Thank you for making me so wonderfully complex!
Your workmanship is marvelous—how well I know it. Psalm 139:14 (NLT)
When I first started this blog, choosing a name was one of the most difficult tasks – and I think that has kept me from writing much. I haven’t been convinced I was on the right track.
It was my doctor’s primary surgeon in Colorado who introduced this term into our life as he would introduce her to surgical residents with his customary flare, “this is Ashley. She is beautifully complicated.”
That seemed to define our lives at the time. We lived in a beautiful part of Colorado, beautiful friends, beautiful children – but there also seemed to be a complication around every turn. I did not want to concentrate on these complications, but on the HOPE we carried with us. The HOPE we had found on dark days and endless nights.
Our life was complicated. Even HOPE came with complications and often pain.
Complicated Hope
The struggle was real. Choosing the word “complicated” for a blog that focused not just on my life but God in my life seemed contradictory. Shouldn’t life with God be smooth and pains be subtle? After all, salvation is simple: “If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved,” Romans 10:9. Jesus is my Savior – He alone is our living Hope. So why is it complicated?
The word ‘complicated’ comes from the Latin complicatus “to intertwine; folded together; confused, intricate.” That seems a perfect definition of life in general and definitely of life in the body of Christ.
Christ’s Kingdom contains members of all ages, ethnic backgrounds, experiences, beliefs as well as faults and foibles. People with different levels of understanding of Grace. People with different needs of deliverance or healing or provision. And yet, here we are. We are intertwined, enfolded and intricately grafted into the Family of God.
That’s complicated!
Psalm 139:14, the writer describes himself as Wonderfully Complex. Yes! We are so wonderfully complex – how boring it would be if at salvation, each of us had the same experience, the exact same point of view, the same styles of worship or ways in which we prayed! God takes us as we are, where we are and loves us to where HE is!
That’s true HOPE! Despite our Complications!
Love Always,
Miss Kim
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Complicated Hope 
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