All around me I am reminded that things are about to change.
The world will once again experience the arrival of Spring.
I love all that Springtime offers, new buds on the trees bursting
forth. Mild weather and sunshine.
New babies laying in the pastures, with their mama's nearby.
Chirping songbirds preparing nests in lofty trees.
Crocus and tulips pushing thru the earth bursting with
color and scent.
As I sit here today pondering the coming seasons of 2012 I can't
help but wonder what changes this "old" world might be headed for
and will we all be prepared to face them.
As I opened my Bible this morning I felt instant familiarity and knew
that somethings remain the same and never change.
GOD's Holy Word, forever true, unchanging, ready to guide, comfort and provide instruction for every season of our life.
Even age only increases the wonder and beauty!
So, Welcome Spring and all you bring, I am prepared for your arrival......
Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things..." 2 Timothy 4:2-5
Monday, February 20, 2012
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Searching for Winter
It is hard to believe that it is the first of February, it feels like early Spring.
The trees are bare and the skies are overcast and gray,
but the temperature reads seventy-six on our thermometer outside.
I like winter days and enjoy a cozy fire and movies or
reading with a pot of stew bubbling on the stove.
I continue to wait for Winter to show it's icy head and
blow in cooler air and possibly a little snow.
But, I wonder if that is to be this season.
I see changes in the patterns of the seasons and
I do believe that this world as we have always known it is changing.
Such a beautiful world GOD created for His children and
it saddens me to see it slowly losing it's wonder and beauty.
I am thankful for the assurance I feel in my Spirit that whatever does transpire in this changing world that I have a Hope and a Promise.
I only need to continue in my faith and stand strong on my beliefs, because God's Word assures me I need not worry.
He knows exactly where Winter is and when it will come again!
Acts 1:7
He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.
The trees are bare and the skies are overcast and gray,
but the temperature reads seventy-six on our thermometer outside.
I like winter days and enjoy a cozy fire and movies or
reading with a pot of stew bubbling on the stove.
I continue to wait for Winter to show it's icy head and
blow in cooler air and possibly a little snow.
But, I wonder if that is to be this season.
I see changes in the patterns of the seasons and
I do believe that this world as we have always known it is changing.
Such a beautiful world GOD created for His children and
it saddens me to see it slowly losing it's wonder and beauty.
I am thankful for the assurance I feel in my Spirit that whatever does transpire in this changing world that I have a Hope and a Promise.
I only need to continue in my faith and stand strong on my beliefs, because God's Word assures me I need not worry.
He knows exactly where Winter is and when it will come again!
Acts 1:7
He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by his own authority.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Winter Haiku's
Winters bare branches
Lying dormant
Spring beauty hidden inside
Dark blue thunder roars
Silver splits the sky
Life giving water falls
Wind whispers and stirs
Fallen leaves dance
To the rhythm of the seasons
Lying dormant
Spring beauty hidden inside
Dark blue thunder roars
Silver splits the sky
Life giving water falls
Wind whispers and stirs
Fallen leaves dance
To the rhythm of the seasons
Friday, December 2, 2011
Christmas Time
Christmas time, how I love this time of year. It just feels good! For a few weeks a year there seems to be a change in the mood of most people. A happiness , a closeness, a general feeling of love toward one another.
As for me I am overwhelmed with the Christmas story year after year. The greatest love story ever told. The "plan" for mankind, the love of a Father for His children.
The quiet beauty and the steadfast love of a Son for His Father...obedient to the end.
My wish for each and everyone of you this Christmas Season is to embrace that love that was meant for all of us.
Let us live as if it was Christmas everyday, let our gifts be kindness, patience, love and tolerance toward one another.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year
Luke 2:1-20
As for me I am overwhelmed with the Christmas story year after year. The greatest love story ever told. The "plan" for mankind, the love of a Father for His children.
The quiet beauty and the steadfast love of a Son for His Father...obedient to the end.
My wish for each and everyone of you this Christmas Season is to embrace that love that was meant for all of us.
Let us live as if it was Christmas everyday, let our gifts be kindness, patience, love and tolerance toward one another.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New year
Luke 2:1-20
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
My Complications/God's Sweet Simplicity
I don't know about you but I can really lose my focus
and life can get complicated.
Battles seem longer, fiercer, unbearable , and lonely.
Even when I know to wait, have faith, trust GOD, and
allow HIM to provide the answers, I steam ahead mucking things up.
Then before you know it, it is complicated.
I say GOD where are you? I cannot see you.
I am trying to listen but I don't hear you.
I feel alone I cannot feel you.
I so need to feel your heart beat in tune with mine,
that I feel afraid when I do not.
Then I see a red bird that lands on a branch above me
and you say, "I am here, can you see me"?
A dove coos sweetly nearby and you ask "I am here can you hear me"?
The wind picks up and a breeze brushes my face, and you ask "I am here can you not feel me"?
You are here, I am safe , we are good !
Isaiah 40: 31
But they who wait upon the Lord shall renew their stregth; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint. KJV
Really excited about this Devotional it was chosen by Judson Press to be in the spring issue of The Secret Place..
and life can get complicated.
Battles seem longer, fiercer, unbearable , and lonely.
Even when I know to wait, have faith, trust GOD, and
allow HIM to provide the answers, I steam ahead mucking things up.
Then before you know it, it is complicated.
I say GOD where are you? I cannot see you.
I am trying to listen but I don't hear you.
I feel alone I cannot feel you.
I so need to feel your heart beat in tune with mine,
that I feel afraid when I do not.
Then I see a red bird that lands on a branch above me
and you say, "I am here, can you see me"?
A dove coos sweetly nearby and you ask "I am here can you hear me"?
The wind picks up and a breeze brushes my face, and you ask "I am here can you not feel me"?
You are here, I am safe , we are good !
Isaiah 40: 31
But they who wait upon the Lord shall renew their stregth; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint. KJV
Really excited about this Devotional it was chosen by Judson Press to be in the spring issue of The Secret Place..
Friday, October 14, 2011
Another Season is upon us, soon leaves will be changing colors
and falling from the trees
The air will become cooler and days will become shorter.
It amazes me to think how intricate the system GOD created when
HE made our world. HE knew and planned for every season.
Springtime is all about new beginnings.
Summer a time for growing.
Autumn is for harvesting and reaping.
Winter is for rest and refreshing.
With each Season we can see the physical changes that they bring.
Sometimes harsh weather, failed crops and at other times
beauty, blessings and abundance.
Is it not the same with the Seasons of our lives. We don't always
embrace the changes that befall us, and we wonder and
question the reason and meaning of every trial, storm and
difficult situation that we travel through.
Life is so full of changes, some are good and successful, others
not so good with devastating results.
As difficult as it sometimes may seem we must trust that GOD has laid the same intricate plans for our lives as HE did when HE created the earth that we live upon.
HE is a loving Father who established the Seasons of our lives and we must trust in the plans HE has for us.
Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not evil, to give you and unexpected end. KJV
and falling from the trees
The air will become cooler and days will become shorter.
It amazes me to think how intricate the system GOD created when
HE made our world. HE knew and planned for every season.
Springtime is all about new beginnings.
Summer a time for growing.
Autumn is for harvesting and reaping.
Winter is for rest and refreshing.
With each Season we can see the physical changes that they bring.
Sometimes harsh weather, failed crops and at other times
beauty, blessings and abundance.
Is it not the same with the Seasons of our lives. We don't always
embrace the changes that befall us, and we wonder and
question the reason and meaning of every trial, storm and
difficult situation that we travel through.
Life is so full of changes, some are good and successful, others
not so good with devastating results.
As difficult as it sometimes may seem we must trust that GOD has laid the same intricate plans for our lives as HE did when HE created the earth that we live upon.
HE is a loving Father who established the Seasons of our lives and we must trust in the plans HE has for us.
Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not evil, to give you and unexpected end. KJV
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
The Hummingbird
This morning as I was leaving for work, I glanced at our Hummingbird feeders that hang near our garage.
On one of the feeders there was a Hummingbird lying on his back , stuck in between the rail of the feeder.
He was struggling to right himself but could not do it.
I thought he must have been at it for quite sometime because there were small feathers stuck to the sides of the feeder.
I reached up and the moment I touched him he stopped struggling, this allowed me to get him out of the feeder rail and right his situation.
As soon as my hand opened, off he flew.
I thought of my own life and the many times I have struggled unsuccessfully just like that small bird against life's obstacles.
Fighting against all odds to overcome things that I knew I could not do alone.
Something in that bird this morning knew the instant I touched it that I was there to help.
Therefore he quit struggling and waited.
That is what I must learn to do also, trust and wait on the LORD.
I know the minute HE touches me I need to struggle no more...
Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
On one of the feeders there was a Hummingbird lying on his back , stuck in between the rail of the feeder.
He was struggling to right himself but could not do it.
I thought he must have been at it for quite sometime because there were small feathers stuck to the sides of the feeder.
I reached up and the moment I touched him he stopped struggling, this allowed me to get him out of the feeder rail and right his situation.
As soon as my hand opened, off he flew.
I thought of my own life and the many times I have struggled unsuccessfully just like that small bird against life's obstacles.
Fighting against all odds to overcome things that I knew I could not do alone.
Something in that bird this morning knew the instant I touched it that I was there to help.
Therefore he quit struggling and waited.
That is what I must learn to do also, trust and wait on the LORD.
I know the minute HE touches me I need to struggle no more...
Isaiah 40:31
But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
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