Plans exist in the recesses of my mind
A to do list that never makes it to paper
But hands are full and it gets pushed to later
“In this life you will have trouble, but fear not, I have overcome the world.”
This world and the part we play in it is beautiful. Yes, there is brokenness, but I want to look for the beauty of our redemption in it. The Lord has made all things new, even as He is in the process of making us new.
Join me in looking for the beauty in life through thoughts and poems. I am so glad you are here.
Plans exist in the recesses of my mind
A to do list that never makes it to paper
But hands are full and it gets pushed to later
So if 35 is middle age here is to growing and changing the rest of my life.
May I see more fruit in the last half than the first half.
And let me look back and say, it’s only getting better.
Dreams feel too intangible
Like a breath
I’m unwilling to release
For fear of losing it
He can
He will
He has
And
He is.
I never want to miss all the big and small ways
That we show up for each other
They ways that I feel seen
In the midst of chaos
And loved in the mess
Now is the time to be present. And be listening. To trust the future to the Lord. To rest and rejoice in the life I am living, even in the chaos and clutter. Not to be so preoccupied with moving ahead that I don’t listen to the Lord in here and now.
But the answer to my question is “yes”. My house, my life, is full of sacred. But it’s not the stuff, no matter how valuable to me they are.
When my first child was born, I was shocked at the amount of things I simply could not accomplish because my hands were always full. How can a baby that sleeps most of the time keep my hands so busy?
I resolve to trust the Lord even if is only one step at a time.
To be expectant, and still present
To be grateful with out condition
To be generous with what I have
and when I fail at all these things, to repent and lean on the Spirit to start again.
lately it feels like a bit of an aimless wandering
The traditions of my childhood felt like an anchor
A cornerstone of each and every year
A Christmas star if you will