Waiting for Spring

My Dad use to say, of the weather, "If you don't like it, just wait a minute and it will change."   And, we did get a change!  Snow came down out of Canada and with it the North wind--and that North wind is always so cold!  Especially across the prairie where there is nothing to stop it.  As the nights dip into the minuses, I think of the poor kitties out in the  cold.  With a bale of straw, I made up beds for them, and they have food, water (electric bowl) and shelter, but it is still cold out there! Thank God for His planning, in that he gave them such soft, warm fur!  The world isn't the way God created it, having changed as a consequence of sin, yet, He, in His wisdom, still gave them protection.

 

The temperature is going to improve in the coming days; and, in the meantime, we just have to sit through it and wait for Spring!   My daughter and son-in-law gave me a program for making scrapbooks and cards, so there is plenty to do while waiting.  It is my plan to have all our pictures scanned and made into a scrapbook and then a copy given to each kid.  But, that is a project I have to do when the babies aren't around.  In the meantime, I am thinking that perhaps I ought to try writing a book.   The babies are old enough that they don't need constant eyes-on, so tomorrow I am going to start Chapter 1.  Of course, it will be about God and His love.   God willing, I will be scribbling notes, and words will be flying off the paper tomorrow.  All is good.

The Wind is Here

Awakened, during the night, by the wind, I listened as it tore through the trees with the weight of its force.  An eerie crying sound could be heard in the darkness--something on the outside.  It was only the wind rubbing something against the house.  The wind continued all through the night and still it blows, hopefully lulling the babies back to sleep.  They have just had their morning bottle and I hope to crawl back into my warm covers for a little bit more sleep.   The clapper in the stove pipe clanks with the downdraft, and outside something big just rolled by thunking with each roll--I imagine someone's garbage can.  Sleep little baby, sleep.  Only one is now still awake.

I loved the wind as a kid.  Today I still do, unless the cold is with it.  The wind brings change--sometimes for the better, sometimes  not. We need change in our lives, and this world is in sore need of change--change that only our God- the God of the impossible, a God whose love and power know no boundary, can accomplish. 

Reflection on New Years Eve

The end of the year is almost here and we all look forward to a better year tomorrow.   The news channels are broadcasting doom if the fiscal cliff happens.    Tonight perhaps the gavel will drop on the congressional floor,  as does the ball in New York City, and we will all tumble over the fiscal cliff.  We don't know.

As this year ends we need to reflect on our own lives and how to live a better life and how to cut wasteful spending, monetarily and emotionally, out of our lives.

I can't thank our Lord enough for the special people He has sent into my life.  One was my husband.  I was rebellious from teenage years on, looking for adventure and love.  Also, I was terribly naive and shy, I didn't know about life or about people and was hurt many times.  I put up a wall around me, and no one got in.  Getting married was the greatest thing that ever happened to me.  It gave me a family, it gave me a home, it gave me security and it gave me love.   Tim, himself, was naive and innocent in many ways, and that is what made me trust him.  He gave me strength and the ability to believe in myself.  During all our years in marriage he always bought me the most wonderful gifts, and some I didn't appreciate until years later.  Like the sewing machine....the Kitchenaide Mixer with all attachments....beautiful heavy sweaters, robes and coats --- he always gave me quality items.  Likewise, over the years, I stayed away from the bargain bins for his clothes and let him choose his own from the finest men's shop in town.  All was good.  He was a gentleman, in so many ways, but still not grown up in so many others.

Satan comes into the family life with his lies and methods of corruption, so there were many ups and downs, but through it all, believing in the best of each other, and having faith that God will get us through, we made it to the end.

Its been seven years since Tim died, almost eight.  I tease the children that one day I'm going to find me a farmer husband and have my own home  again, so they are invested into the dream that I might one day leave my new home with them.  My daughter-in-law was going to try to hook me up with some of the elderly farmers and ranchers she met, but I want all things to given by God and I will wait on Him for what He has planned. When God gives something, He gives His best and I will wait on Him. Yet, if there was someone in my life, then is God still at the forefront in my life? Perhaps His idea for my life is something else, I don't know.   If God doesn't wish that to happen, then all is good.  I have had a good life with a good man, and he has blessed me with children that I love.   He will reign in my life.

For New Years the only resolution I am going to have is to dance at least one dance every day.  The rest, I leave up to the Lord.  The babies love to dance, so that should keep us busy.  The Lord loves busy hands, so I am sure He will keep us busy too.  God is good, I look forward to the New Year.

HAPPY NEW YEARS - May the New Year bring you the hopes and dreams that you have desired and may God be with our Country and may His presence be known to all the world.