A Father's Role

This picture is one of my very favourite pictures. I do not remember this day but when I look at it I feel it.  I thank God for moments like this one!

I grew up feeling mostly insecure and full of fear. Yet, I had a very enthusiastic spirit within me.  I got excited about many things like most children do. The day I turned five was very exciting! I mean, to be a handful years old was a big deal and I remember making sure everyone heard about it!

Back to the picture though, I know I must have loved this moment here. I look safe and protected here.

The only picture that could out do this one would be dad walking me down the isle on my  wedding day  but I do not have one of those.

A father plays such a huge role in a girl's (any child's) life!  I have heard and seen many different ways that this is true.  In some cases, not good ways but yet  each child has this longing for a father's attention and approval.

I know there are many out who don't have an earthly father or just don't have a father that did his job.  However, we all have our Heavenly Father who will walk with us everyday, if we don't run from him. Can you picture that?

We have a Father in heaven who is always with us . He walks us through our insecurities and gives us unconditional love.  Many however push Him away.

I look back at all the things that could have happened  and see that God protected me through  circumstances.

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God!

From very young on , I searched for God our Father and He continuously put a light in my path. When my sense of direction became unclear, He called my name and lit my path so that I could find my way towards Him once more.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

God's Goodness

I was driving along a country road, enjoying the beauty  of God's creation. Looking around me at the beautiful fall colours, reminded me again of God's goodness. All that He created was good.

God cared about little details. He didn't make every tree the same way. He didn't make every animal the same way. He didn't make any of us the same way. Not only are we all different inside, but He also  got creative with our appearance. He decided some will be blond, some will be brunette. He created  genes that would bring about many differences in people, from hair to  skin , to eyes , to size . He took Himself and created us in his own image! Does that not give you a picture of how awesome He is? There is more to God than we are able to comprehend.

"And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Genesis 1:31.

I get a picture in my mind of the Garden of Eden, a perfect, undamaged, clean world! In it He  placed Adam and his wife Eve. He gave them a GOOD home. He gave them each other, a holy and perfect marriage.

I see a glimpse of the love, the peace and contentment that was in this place. I can almost feel myself being there. This causes great curiosity within me! For Jesus says, I go to prepare a place for you.. What is He preparing? We have not seen it, but I know it is good beyond imagination!

When I walk close with my Lord, all this becomes reality. My future home that will be without the sin, destruction and the sorrow we see much of here, on the earth  which man is destroying more each day.

What GOD has done, is doing and will be doing is GOOD!  A day is coming when everything that is not of God will be wiped away and there shall be no more death. No more tears. No more pain..... Just the love of God wrapped around us.

I pray that each person who has read this will be inspired to allow God to walk them through this journey here on earth while we wait for our heavenly home!  Perhaps I will one day meet you there!

 

 

 

God Made us a Family

1 CORINTHIANS 13

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ² And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,^[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵ or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;^{[b] 6} it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,endures all things.

⁸ Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. ¹² Fornow we see in a mirror dimly, butthen face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even asI have been fully known.

¹³ So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Inspired by the Season

               Be still and  look around you. Get to know God by looking at his creation.