Hmm...long time...still pluggin'

It feels like ages since I posted here, but I was curious today about any spam comments here, since I haven't posted in some time. I was tickled and humbled to find a few random "anonymous" comments on old posts. I had abandoned this site in my "darkness" of the last year, to focus more on my photography site--Pippen Prints--in effort to remind, rebuild, and reform myself back into the person I always will be...and hope to be.

And, in my absence, I have often thought how the older posts on here seem so long ago...a totally different me, a different time, different world. I've considered deleting them, since they contrast so much with the healing/coping journey the latter posts record. But they are all part of my story...we can't delete our pasts I suppose.

So, maybe I'll get back into writing here again...
Afterall, for better or worse, I still am a blessed woman.

Sigh...

God will wipe away every tear from their eyes; there shall be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying. Revelation 21:4

Recently my pastor made a point about how the Puritans used to start and end each day with one of the following comments:
-in the morning: "Maybe today God?"
-in the evening: "Maybe tonight God?"

He explained that they were so focussed on the goodness of heaven and God's promises of a perfect world upon His coming that they hoped for it eagerly everyday.

I can see why they would long hopefully each day for His coming with this quote from Revelation. While He is near at all times, and certainly close with those who mourn, grieve, are troubled, in need, or weary, it's hard to feel Him when He can't simply reach over with a finger and wipe away a tear, give a hug, or give you His hand to hold. We have to rely on faith to help us feel those comforts. We also have to allow the Spirit to break down any barriers we have as fallen humans that restrict His comfort from coming through strong and warm.

...no more tears. Wow, unfathomable.
Praise God for this word which He left behind for me to have sitting waiting in an old email I stumbled upon today when I needed it.

Didn't you know...

This song is helping me cross over to new beginnings...

I continue to wonder why it takes longer to grieve than to fall in love.
Everything a season, I recall...I hope this isn't a permanent season. I'm looking forward to a new spring (even if it's snowing!).

How does He always know?

I just wanted to share this little insight I read to start my day today. I was grateful for it on many deep levels, but moreso because often it is through my plants that God shows me how His plan makes sense in the long run.

Enjoy this for yourself. :)
God bless!

Wishing

Hard to swallow, but easy to digest

"All men are like grass,
and all their glory is like the flowers of the field;
the grass withers and the flowers fall,
but the word of the Lord stands forever."
1 Peter 1:24-25

For Heaven's Sake

"However, as it is written: 'No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him'—”- 1 Corinthians 2:9