April 16, 2010
Have you ever been traveling in the desert for a long while and almost but not quite feel like you are lost? You keep trodding on as if mechanically operated catching a glimpse of beauty here and there but it quickly disappears as the scenery changes.
Your throat gets dry and your skin parched.
You lose tract of time as far as being able to say how long you have traveled off the beaten path into the wilderness of the vast desert.
But you continue to travel on. One foot in front of the other with no particular place to go. Just knowing you can't stop. Not now. Not here.
Then, out of the blue, comes an oasis on the horizon. Oh you don't see the scope of it all at first...just a sprinkle of cool wetness as the wind carries a small breeze in your direction. But the sprinkle begins to satisfy and you trod at a more rapid pace - your pulse quickens as you anticipate more.
The cloudless sky becomes white again - bringing shade and a pitter patter of moisture. You open your mouth to the sky and as the drops fall into your being not only is your body starting to be revived but the depths of your being as well.
This has been my experience today.
Truth came. I listened. Moved in that direction to catch a glimpse, as it were, of more.
Satisfied. More than satisfied. My heart smiled.
God knows me. God cares.
I am still teachable - I have not traveled too far away to return. He promises us that very thing in Psalm 139.
Thank you Jesus! For a touch of your hand. A glimpse of your love for me. You are truth in all of it's glory and fineness.
There is no God like you.
Who could look down from the heavens and see a single soul and know that soul deeply? Who could care for that soul with a lavish love that is beyond comprehension?
No one but you.
Thank you for showing me who you are.... once again.

April 14, 2010

Life is but a vapor - it's true. Where have all the months gone since the last blog? Since that time two more wonderful grandsons have been added to our family. Blessings there.
I have experienced a heartbreaking crisis. Have returned to a new "normal" although I am not sure much of the time what that really means and is.
I look to the day life is simplier - is there such a day in this lifetime? Or is it the everafter I look forward too? Knowing there will be peace at last in the forever.
Aging. Finding I know less about life the more I live it. Is it suppose to be that way? Having little interest in it as a whole but enjoying the small things even more. Like having a quite day to oneself. Having a clean enviroment in which to live. Smaller is better. Less is good. Sunlight and warmth is pleasing. Sitting in the sun on a nice spring day makes me smile inside. Holding a grandchild by the hand. Eating out in a not so busy resturant. Talking to a friend on the phone. Sending a thank you to Jesus in the form of a gift to someone in need. Sleeping beside my husband. A brisk walk with praise music filling my mind and heart. A visit from one of or both my girls and their children. A good book that speaks "nuggets" of truth to my soul.
These are the things that bring joy to the everyday. They are simple. Truth. Each etches a smile in my heart. It is enough.