This picture I chose today is not a random picture as I usually choose off photo bucket pertaining to my post.This is a picture of my Aunt's front yard on Christmas morning (yesterday). Even as I am sitting here writing this snow is falling quickly from the sky and it brings tears to my eyes. I am deeply in love with the snow! Being a girl born and raised in Texas, you wouldn't think that I would embrace it so, but I do. It is so near and dear to my heart.
As it falls, I am reminded of the years I have lived here in Kansas before. How I dreaded that time when I was here, for so many different reasons.
While my husband, daughter and I were driving from Alabama to Kansas I caught myself mentally complaining about living in Alabama. Right then God put this on my heart: Be thankful for where you have been, enjoy where you are, and look forward to where you are going. I know that sounds a little fortune cookie-ish, but that is the beauty of my God. He does not fit in your cookie cutter, even if you try to make him.
How many places have you been in your life that you dreaded? That you just could not stand at that time? That you thought would just never end? Now think back to then from where you are now. Even though it was an unpleasant, something in that period changed you, taught you, or revieled something in or to you that was vital to your maturation.
That was God. You see, we are made in His image, yes. But, we currently are nothing but an ugly distorted version of what He has planned for us. It takes those seasons of uncomfortableness to refine us. You need to trust God that he will light the way on your path with Him, even if it's just the next step that you see. Have faith that He will never fail you, because He wont.
"Through the heartfelt mercies of our God,
God's Sunrise will break in upon us,
Shining on those in the darkness,
those sitting in the shadow of death,
Then showing us the way, one foot at a time,
down the path of peace."
Luke 1:78-79
The Message
Peace. That word is so sweet to my ears. How I long for peace in my life so many times, only to realize that peace has been there all along, and I was the one who was creating the distress.
So right now, as this snow falls so beautifully reminding me of my magnificent, beautiful and omnipotent Savior, I will zip my lips close my eyes and lift my right hand for Him to guide me. Even if I can not see where I am going.
God's Sunrise will break in upon us,
Shining on those in the darkness,
those sitting in the shadow of death,
Then showing us the way, one foot at a time,
down the path of peace."
Luke 1:78-79
The Message
Peace. That word is so sweet to my ears. How I long for peace in my life so many times, only to realize that peace has been there all along, and I was the one who was creating the distress.
So right now, as this snow falls so beautifully reminding me of my magnificent, beautiful and omnipotent Savior, I will zip my lips close my eyes and lift my right hand for Him to guide me. Even if I can not see where I am going.
