Once again it's been quite a while since I've blogged. I begin to wonder if I'll ever become a regular blogger? It seems, just as I get settled in, then another season of change happens and during those times I've learned I am my best self if I focus on very few but important things because my energy wanes. Maybe this is because of chronic illness or maybe it's just the way I'm built? Either way, I've learned to embrace it.
Photo Credit: A Work of A.R.T.
In the last 10 months we've left our church, moved out of town and bought our first home, lost our 16 year old Maine Coon who was our baby, experienced bats in the walls of our 104 year old home lol & much, much more. Isn't life always full of something!? It's one thing after another! Since we know this, it's up to us to choose whether we embrace the changes or fight them, see life as an adventure or a nightmare & so on.
This reminds me of a funny story one of my best friends and her daughter experienced. Her little girl was playing on a playground when she ended up getting a bunch of stickers stuck to her. Being young and so sweetly innocent, she told me later that she wondered through her screams and tears why her mom would let these "bugs" just bite her. While that may make us giggle now because we know they weren't bugs at all but stickers, it made me think of how we sometimes question our own Father when we're getting bitten or stung by those in the world or situations of the world. Life can be so hard sometimes but I believe, just like this little girl's mother, our Father knows we're going to be ok because He sees more than we do, He knows more than we do.
This reminds me of a funny story one of my best friends and her daughter experienced. Her little girl was playing on a playground when she ended up getting a bunch of stickers stuck to her. Being young and so sweetly innocent, she told me later that she wondered through her screams and tears why her mom would let these "bugs" just bite her. While that may make us giggle now because we know they weren't bugs at all but stickers, it made me think of how we sometimes question our own Father when we're getting bitten or stung by those in the world or situations of the world. Life can be so hard sometimes but I believe, just like this little girl's mother, our Father knows we're going to be ok because He sees more than we do, He knows more than we do.
| We live in a fallen world with imperfect people and are quite imperfect ourselves... so how do we embrace this adventure and keep on keeping on? I think it's as simple as trusting our Father and believing that He knows or allows what is best. That may be simple but applying it in the moments of suffocating pain... now that's complex! During the times where it seems I've/we've done everything right and yet people or situations fail us, I find comfort in the stories of several Bible characters... Job; he lost it all and yet he continued to serve God even as He cried out to Him in pain. Then there's Joseph who was sold into slavery by his own envious brothers and continued to have one attack or trial after another though his heart was right and set on God and the things of God. |  While taking pictures a couple weeks ago... I ended up with my own assortment of stickers "biting" me ;) ... Photo Credit: A Work of A.R.T. |
Thankfully, we serve the same gracious God as Job and Joseph and both of them were brought to victory in the end! Set your eyes upon Jesus, trust your Heavenly Father to care for you better than any earthly father ever could and pursue the things in which the Holy Spirit leads you. Our Godhead 3-in-1 has you and He is a God of miracles! Expect your SUDDENLY miracle because God is in the business (for a lack of a much better word) of SUDDENLY!
Photo Credit: A Work of A.R.T.
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