Paths Taken...

What a beautifully perfect day yesterday was...the sky could not get any bluer, the breeze any cooler, softer...manual labour readying boards and beams for the next adventurous trip out to the boondocks amidst the sounds of birds, insects and hwy traffic running near the yard....the excitement over being able to plan an outing for the afternoon amongst God's creation...wrong turns, hikes through waist high brush, prickly bush and young saplings, discovering a man made dam, baby frogs galore and a phone full of new pics to commemorate the afternoon and I was complete. A gear slipping into its groove, the peg fitting into the square hole like it was born to be there....and I was back, back to what my spirit longs for, what my heart asks for, what my mind knew it needed....the quiet of the back roads, the forest service roads...the squawk of the radio channel and others calling their miles, picking up the mike and calling ours...the lazy large hawk as it hung upon the breeze blowing over the lake and through the 5-6 year old burn and its lonely bare trees standing sentinel....

Oh dear hearts, my heart sings out with promise....my spirit calls out with joy, with peace, with freedom from fear, from anxiety....the path taken has led to something I used to listen to...the depths of my heart and soul whispering in a soft voice, hoarse from misuse...rough from being quieted. Let our heart soar dear friends...let it lead you to what fulfills, what fills the lonely places, what quiets the pain and sorrow....if we listen, we will hear.

It may be something you cannot attain right now in this moment, but it can always, infinitely be something you are taking steps to get to...climb that mountain, ford that stream, cross that impossible ocean to find it truly is not impossible....

'For with God nothing shall be impossible.' Luke 1:37

Set your face to the sun and plot your course dear friends....nothing is impossible with God as the wind at your back, the strength and courage at your side, the grace, mercy and loving kindness at your front encouraging your every footfall...rejoicing with you as you make each post, each goal no matter how small it may seem.

God is good...I have tasted this and known His goodness....

It hurts to turn and look over the past many months, to see the torment of each day struggling to rise above....it is raw and still slightly tender to go over the years spent chasing the impossible dream, the immovable object....accepting truths about someone I spent the hardest moments of my life with and yet loved, prayed for, encouraged, forgave....turning the mirror toward my face and seeing the parts that needed changing....

But now...now I have ground covered to rejoice over to balance it all out....the scales tipping finally to the side of joy, of promises fulfilled, of peace retained and held on to....

Dear hearts...this is your path, your destiny....to find that path meant just for you....it may seem so very far away, so insurmountable a goal....in the beginning it is....it is overwhelming as a tornado setting down amongst your mind and heart and expecting growth and goals achieved. One step, dear friends...one tiny step at a time...one faltering, stumbling step at a time and one day you will lift your head to see the bounty before you...one day you will set your shoulders back and hold your head high and survey the land you have taken back...and oh the rejoicing that will bring.

Do not give up on hope my friends....joy awaits your faithful steps each day...peace awaits you....Go with God today and each day forward, may He fill your mornings with hope and comfort and your afternoons and evenings with promise and joy unceasing.