Random Writing on a Friday...

Summer...hot sun....white sundress...bare feet....lake....watermelon...black-eyed susans...sweating in the heat....laying on a blanket with iced tea....eating blueberry pie...digging in the dirt...riding my bike...lightning bugs...grass between my toes...iced coffee...laundry on the clothesline...burgers on the grill...sunsets...crickets...thunderstorms...wildflowers...fresh vegetables...farmer's market...CANADA...running in the rain.....

Snow...snowshoeing...trees covered with snow. Christmas lights and hot coffee...dipping cookies in the hot coffee.  Red, green, glitter.  The quiet stillness of a snowstorm. Hunkering down under a blanket with some chai and a warm sweater.  Pinecones. The sun setting on a strikingly cold day...my birthday...catching snowflakes with your tongue...fires in the fireplace...ice skating...sledding...snowmen and snowball fights...HOCKEY...I love winter...

Fall...leaves...hot cider...flannel shirts...vests. Warm boots and hats and mittens. Jumping in a pile of leaves. Staring at the colors for hours on end and never getting sick of it. Acorns...pumpkins...squash....cold rain and the smell of the leaves in the cold rain...bright sun on cold days...fires in the fireplace....my favorite time to hike...knowing winter is on its way...

Spring. New life. Flowers daring to poke their heads out of the ground. The excitement to see things growing after a long sleep. Daffodils in an old jar on a window sill. Mud. Tree buds. Easter. Easter eggs. 40 degrees and we can wear shorts!! Joy.

I want to go visit the Northeast part of this country...in all four seasons....I want to buy some old VW van that's green and drive it all over up there, and go to all the places I've never been before...New York is debatable, but I would still maybe go there just because I've never been...simplicity is great though...

I need to take more pictures of everyday life.  Because everyday life is beautiful.  And, ladies and gentlemen...this is what happens when my brain is just one big bag of random weirdness and I just write.....but this is just where I'm at today. Feet 100 miles off the ground and feeling wanderlust...

In Christ,

Meg

God's love and grace...

There it was...again.  For the one millionth time.  That same, horrible, sinking, makeyouwanttothrowup feeling that overwhelmed me.  I had failed...again.  And then again, came those words, You are such a terrible person. Who could ever stand to be around you? You are such a screw up all the time. You don't deserve anything good at all...  However, this time when I heard those words was different than when I had heard them in the past.  This was because the truth of God's Word had penetrated down to the dry places of my soul and spirit and refreshed me...and because God had been using the Holy Spirit to teach and train me in the art of spiritual warfare...so I knew what to do.

"There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus!" I retorted. (Romans 8:1) You still aren't good enough.  "I don't have to be, because 'greater is He who is in me than he who is in this world'!" I snapped back. (1 John 4:4) You aren't strong enough, you can't do this came the next grand lie.  "I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength," I answered. (Philippians 4:13)  And the lies stopped. As well as the feeling.  Jesus and the Holy Spirit had "restored me to the joy of their salvation and upheld me with a willing spirit". (Psalm 51:12).  Will I trip and fall again? Yes. Will the enemy try to make me feel lousy again? Yes. But I do know the One Who is greater than all of this...and He knows You.

"For You did form my inward parts; You did knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I will confess and praise You for You are fearful and wonderful and for the awful wonder of my birth! Wonderful are Your works, and that my inner self knows right well.

My frame was not hidden from You when I was being formed in secret [and] intricately and curiously wrought in the depths of the earth.

Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days [of my life] were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them.

How precious and weighty also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How vast is the sum of them!

If I could count them, they would be more in number than the sand. When I awoke, I would still be with You." ~Psalm 139:13-18

Think about that...the One Who created the world also created you and knows you intimately...and even though you may mess up, He still loves you and has insurmountable grace for you. 

"For it is by free grace that you are saved through faith. And this is not of yourselves, but it is the gift of God; Not because of works, lest any man should boast." ~Ephesians 2:8-9

He has saved me, heals and restores me daily...He can do the same for you.

In Christ,

Meg