It’s not about the bunny - part 3

Jesus. It’s all about Jesus, the sweetest love I’ve found.

God’s Timing is perfect. All His ways are good.

Today, I stepped outside to run a few errands. Right outside my door, a bunny. He began to run away and all I could keep  saying was “I Love you”. He seemed to calm down. He ran around the corner and I kept talking to him.

He stopped, I sat on the ground, he looked at me and after a little while started to hop back towards me! He  wasn’t far from me and had I been able to sit longer, he may have gotten closer. Melt my heart. Thank you Lord.

6 weeks

6 weeks ago, i wrote about being in the "eye of the storm" Glory to God for some amazing results from the doctors office. If a picture is worth a thousand words, then what I saw on the scans was just that. I had to squeeze the information out of the doctor, I had to literally ask him HOW good was this. He said "excellent" but then continued to set up further treatments and pokes and prods.  With the storm of this trial calming, I'm afraid a new one may be on the rise. I continue to put my Hope and my Trust in You Lord Jesus Christ.

Summer in Winter

I am blessed to have two young ladies in my life. Grace and Summer.

I'll tell this story until my last breath, that God audibly told me to name Grace, Grace.
I didn't however hear so much as a peep about what to name my second born.
In fact, I was so convinced she was a "he"... that I really had no girl names in my mind at all.

So... my husband and I decided it was okay that our 9 year old name our newborn... and Summer it was.

I'll admit, I've had some (minor) reservations about this name... is it awkward that we spelt it the same as the actual season... maybe.  Whether or not it was God's plan for her, he most certainly is revealing that He uses it ALL for His Good.

It's been a heavy winter.  Northern MN winters are always bitter cold. Cold winds. Cold below zero temps. Mounds of heavy, cold snow.  Born and raised here, it's no surprise to me and it may honestly have conditioned me to handle the other types of seasons in our lives.

This winter is a season of winter in my personal life. Colder and darker by the hour... losing daylight, sunlight, the source of light and warmth. Glory to God that He's been building my faith for the past 10 years... faith of a mustard seed is all we need... it's keeping the faith, day in and day out, season after season that is the true test. Truly believing that HE is our source of light and warmth in every hour, in every season.

James 1: 2-4
2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

Seasons of trials pass. In this season of winter, I'm grateful for our sweet Summer.

Matthew 28:18

18 Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19 Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

Eye of the storm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sx8wTnnfSc

The Eye of the Storm

"I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith..." —Ephesians 3:16

Today there is a peace felt like no other I may have ever experienced.  An external peace, if you will.
Today, Jimmy (my father with dementia) is content moving papers around upstairs while my 5 month old is sleeping like a 'baby'  and my husband just went down for a morning nap as well.
Peace is covering this house.
Interestingly enough, however, a storm of strong winds rage just outside these four walls. We are in a windchill advisory... and the shutters are literally rattling.
If this is the eye of the storm that my family is currently in... then this gives me great encouragement, great hope and possibly a great revelation.
Our storm began about 6 weeks ago when my husband drove himself to the Emergency room while on his way to work, early one morning.
They released him a few hours later and he came home early to tell me that he had gone in.
I won't get into the details of his diagnosis, only that it surely has been a whirlwind of doctor appointments, drugs and detailed lists of what to do and not to do, what to eat and not to eat... etc. 
If today is in fact, the eye of this storm then mathematically speaking... one could suggest that we've got about 6 weeks to go! Okay... I know this sounds a bit wild to attempt to deduce... but if it's a revelation from God, than Glory to Him for that. If it's not, than I continue to Wait with Joy and Hope, trusting in Him through it all. Amen.

James 1:1-18New International Version (NIV)

1 James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ,

To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations:

Greetings.

Trials and Temptations

2 Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters,[a] whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you. 6 But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. 8 Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.

9 Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position.10 But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower. 11 For the sun rises with scorching heat and withers the plant; its blossom falls and its beauty is destroyed. In the same way, the rich will fade away even while they go about their business.

12 Blessed is the one who perseveres under trial because, having stood the test, that person will receive the crown of life that the Lord has promised to those who love him.

13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

16 Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. 18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.