A New Season [12.12.08]

Where has she gone? There. Here she is.

The weather has changed, and so has life. She travels down a path through a valley cold. This once was home, but now it is void of reward. She seeks her promise land. The future promised her.

Her greatest fear has to do with the setting and rising of the sun. The beginning and end of each new day. Time is passing her by.

Exhausted She Finds Rest [08.30.08]

Laying in the grass she looks up into the sky trying to see beyond her own limited view. Inactivity would not leave her this tired, she must be making progress. In fact she is very busy, life is taking her a million different directions--many of which she would not choose for herself. The breeze playfully dances through the grass freeing the little ballerina seeds of a dandelion and she closes her eyes seeking what she really needs. The calming, restful love of her Father in heaven.

To feel truly loved she needs queit, reflective, quality time with God and those in her life, and life is making that time so hard to find.

She closes her eyes and rests in the love of God.

Nothing but God's Will

Her soul feels waterlogged. Days and months of raining. So numb to it she's grown, she barely feels a drop. Her hair hangs limp, clinging to her face and neck. The horizon is not so dark today as it has been, and the rain does not feel so oppressive--yet it is still rain. A little is loved, a lot is loathed by most. Yet she sits un-judging of her situation. She knows it's the building block for her blessed tomorrow, no matter how it looks today. So let it rain so long as I don't drown. For the Lord will bless me for I am His own.

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"In the center of the circle
of the will of God I stand:
There can come no second causes,
All must come from His dear hand.
All is well! for it's my Father
Who my life has planned.

Shall I pass through waves of sorrow?
Then I know it will be best;
Though I cannot tell the reason,
I can trust, and so am blest.
God is love, and God is faithful.
So in perfect Peace I rest.

With the shade and with the sunshine,
With the joy and with the pain,
Lord I trust you! both are needed,
Each Your wayward child to train,
Earthly loss, if we will know it,
Often means our heavely gain.
I. G. W."

--And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him. Romans 8:28 --

Rain Showers and Sun [07.19.08]

We can depend on God to fulfill his promise, even when all the roads leading to it are closed. --Matthew Henry

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Eyes closed she turns her face heavenward. The rain pours down on her with no sign that it will be letting up, but yet the sun shines dancing between the clouds.

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My words...will come true at their proper time Luke 1:20
What the Lord has said...will be accomplished. Luke 1:45

The Lord is sure to accomplish those things
a loving heart has waited long to see;
Those words be fulfilled to which she clings,
Because her God has promised faithfully;
And, knowing him, she ne'er can doubt His word;
He speaks and it is done. The mighty Lord!

The Lord is sure to accomplish those things,
O burdened heart, rest ever in His care;
In quietness beneath His shadowing wings
Await the answer to your longing prayer.
When you have "cast your cares," the heart then sings,
The Lord is sure to accomplish those things.

The Lord is sure to accomplish those things
O tired heart, believe and wait and pray;
Peacefully, the evening chime still rings,
Though cloud and rain and storm have filled the day.
Faith pierces through the mist of doubt that bars
The coming night sometimes, and finds the stars.

The Lord is sure to accomplish those things,
O trusting heart, the Lord to you has told;
Let Faith and Hope arise, and lift their wings,
to soar toward the sunrise clouds of gold;
the doorways of the rosy dawn swing wide,
Revealing joys the darkness of night did hide.

--Bessie Porter

Forward On [05.22.08]

Morning comes once again, and she realizes that she cannot wait for clarity, she cannot wait for the confusion to fade...she must carry on, ever forward and trust the Lord to lead.

Springs of Cold Water [05.21.08]

The water that runs through the stream by the way is so cold that it brings pain as she washes the mud off her feet. She is now out of the quicksand, at least this patch of land is solid, but the cold waters hurt as they wash away the quicksand. As time passes she grows numb to the cold water.

Sitting by the water now, she contemplates what may come next...

It was Quicksand [05.18.08]

The leap led to a fall that led to quicksand.

Her forward journey seems doomed to be halted for a time, until the grips of confusion let go of her feet.