As I type, it's raining outside, I can hear a low rumble of thunder in the distance from the awesome storm that just passed - the air has cooled and it smells like rain! The trees glow, the flowers are still wet with rain and ~ my hair is frizzed and there is mud everywhere -and I just love it!
If I could change the calendar I would - Spring is when everything begins ~ perfect and new and full of promise, summer is when the sun burns the hottest and shines the brightest, fall is relief from the heat, and oh so beautiful, even as the flowers wilt and the leaves fall, the days are shorter and things slow down - and then winter, breath-taking beauty!! I love the changes and I love that I've gotten to see it begin again and again 43 times ~ I truly enjoy every season while I'm in it - and yet, I am so tickled to see the next season come in, I am hard pressed to pick a favorite, they just all seem to come at just the right time.
I have loved the seasons of my life with that same passion. Spring ~ I loved the newness of the dating phase with my husband, getting to know one another - that season when we were both still so 'perfect' :b !! And then the season of young children - I suppose this would be summer! Busy and crazy sometimes, young children, new careers - definitely a time you could feel the heat - but wow does the sun shine bright in this season - and oh how I miss those days when they were small ~ but even then I knew the days would fly by so I really tried to savor every moment.
Now, I would say I'm seeing signs of fall ~ so many changes, my firstborn married and setting up a home of her own and the reality that leaving home is just on the horizon for the other three. I love the season I am in, and I dearly wish to slow the hands of time, but I know I am headed for another beautiful season - things will be more quiet around here, but it will have its beauty - and I really love the fall....
Friday, April 30, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
hope does float...
I can think of very few things as panic inducing as the fear that you are going to drown - maybe it brings out the other tendency I have which is claustrophobia - regardless - the idea of drowning strikes terror in me.
Ironically - I can swim, but things happen - strong current, big waves, a face full of water, coughing, sputtering, disorientation - all things that can interfere with actually swimming.
However, an interesting reality, you don't need to swim to keep from drowning - you really just need to float - but to float, you must relax, and to relax you must stop surrendering to your fear and focus on what you know. Once you do this, you float - you regain your composure, you catch your breath and you regain your perspective ~ now you can swim, now you can head for shore, now you will be OK.
I think our fears and emotions can assault our sensibilities like big waves, they can pull us along like a current, make us cough and sputter, choking on incorrect thoughts ~ all things that can keep us from actually "swimming" - keep us from heading to solid ground.
So - we need to relax, we need to stop surrendering to the panic and just float - relax in the knowledge that no sin will overtake you (fear is not from God), God has provided a way of escape - remember this and you can float - you can float here while you catch your breath and regain your perspective, you can float here on this promise until you see the way of escape - the way to dry ground, and then you can swim, and you will be OK...
Ironically - I can swim, but things happen - strong current, big waves, a face full of water, coughing, sputtering, disorientation - all things that can interfere with actually swimming.
However, an interesting reality, you don't need to swim to keep from drowning - you really just need to float - but to float, you must relax, and to relax you must stop surrendering to your fear and focus on what you know. Once you do this, you float - you regain your composure, you catch your breath and you regain your perspective ~ now you can swim, now you can head for shore, now you will be OK.
I think our fears and emotions can assault our sensibilities like big waves, they can pull us along like a current, make us cough and sputter, choking on incorrect thoughts ~ all things that can keep us from actually "swimming" - keep us from heading to solid ground.
So - we need to relax, we need to stop surrendering to the panic and just float - relax in the knowledge that no sin will overtake you (fear is not from God), God has provided a way of escape - remember this and you can float - you can float here while you catch your breath and regain your perspective, you can float here on this promise until you see the way of escape - the way to dry ground, and then you can swim, and you will be OK...
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