When Our Lord Leads the Way
In the Fall with the frost
Flocks of birds Start to form
Preparing to fly
Before Winter’s storms
Though the path of their flight
Is unseen and unclear
Their heavenly controller
Plots their course every year
And if those birds know
Which direction to stay
How much more we
When our Lord leads the way
When Our Lord Leads the Way
by Peter Caligiuri Copyright 2021
All rights reserved
Even the stork in the heavens knows her times, and the turtledove, swallow, and crane keep the time of their coming, but my people know not the rules of the Lord. Jeremiah 8:7 ESV
Now that we’ve been in Florida for a while I look back and remember the worst part of Winter up North was not the snow and ice but the constant grey skies with a splash of chilly wind. In light of the grey skies and chilly wind we’ve all come through in 2020 I thought I’d begin with some gentle humor in verse with hopes it will brighten your day and shine a little light on the beginning of your 2021.
Ears
Only ears can hear
That’s just the way God made us
If ears could see or hear
They’d certainly betray us
But when God fashioned ears
Those humble awkward things
That flop about and wiggle
On little inner springs
He made a way to tell us
How much we’d been forgiven
And then He set and tuned them
To hear His words from heaven
Oh - only ears can hear
That’s just the way God made them
Humble listening gifts
That lead us to obey Him
Ears by Peter Caligiuri
copyright 2018 All rights reserved
Thy word is lamp unto my feet and a light to my path. Psalm 119:105
When I was a teenager I lived for a few years on a farm in Southern Missouri. Each of us had our own chores and mine was to milk the cow. It would have been far easier to run across the road to the milk barn when it was light out, but in order to be ready to leave for work on time, I needed to get out of my nice warm bed and get started by 4:45. If the moon was full, it wasn’t hard to see and I could easily pick my way up the familiar path. But on dark moonless mornings, though I knew the way by heart, I needed the beam from my flashlight to find where to place my feet for each step.
Now fifty years later, I am still getting up long before daybreak but the pathway of 2021 feels far darker than any of those walks to the barn. Our own family’s issues, the ever changing national health crisis along with my own personal struggles loom on the horizon feeling like the shadows of a massive mountain range. Fears and doubts, decisions and demands lie waiting to be confronted, decided and met full on. But there is hope because God has given us a promise that He will light the path. We may not see well enough to run ahead, but His word will show us the way to take the next step. Then, even more amazingly He adds the even greater promise that He will not only light our path but that He will walk with us on it ,step by step, all the way to the barn.
God bless you each of you and Happy New Year. May you find the next step that He has reserved for you in this year that lies ahead!
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