Month: August 2018

On Tiptoe

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The whole creation is on tiptoe to see the wonderful sight of the sons of God coming into their own. Romans 8:19 Phillips version

Do you sometimes find life a bit boring? Not our our grandson Alex who is anxiously curious about everything! On our walk this morning, he picked up every seed, pine cone and stick. When we got to the nearby fire station he  peered through the windows at the fire trucks parked inside and then  decided he’d even check out their mail! Can you imagine that the entire creation of God has that same curious longing to see what God will do through us today? No life is so not boring that tiptoes are necessary to see inside the wonderful things that God has secretly in store!

 

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Cloudy Day

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Do you know how the clouds are balanced, Those wondrous works of Him who is perfect in knowledge? Job 37:16

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As we are preparing to begin the road towards Florida I thought I’d take some farewell photos of my beloved farm (not mine exactly but the one I have managed for 25 years. Wouldn’t you know it but my big chance for lots of spectacular endless mountain scenery ended up as a cloudy day.

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But even with clouds it is still an amazing place. It is so hard to imagine not seeing these hills, muddy roads, quiet streams and fields.

 

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Nothing grows easily in this hard rocky clay soil but grass, trees, corn and people with roots deep enough to keep them from being blown off the mountain ridges!

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But whatever road God leads us on He has promised to be with us. What better scenery than the horizon that God has chosen is there? He has promised to watch over, walk along side and care for our needs in whatever place He chooses for us to call home!

Look at the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? Matthew 6:26

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Only Grace

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As Paul McCartney once sang, “When I was younger so much younger than today. I never needed anybody’s help in any way.”

With independent assurance of youth fleeing fast over my horizon I am suddenly faced with a weakness that reminds me that Jesus is a friend closer than anyone on this planet. He alone has the numbers of my days written in a book. How wonderful to know that He has not only visited me in this orphanage called the world but He has decided to adopt me into His own family.

And now I know more than ever that I need all of God’s grace all of the time. He has in His mysterious and Holy way watched over me and will continue to watch till dawn!

For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
Ephesians 2:8 NKJV