Forty Plus Miles

       I creep into the cold to not stir an alarm at the neighbors, a four-legged one of the canine variety that could wake my still slumbering family. I enter this sacred beginning with intentionality, considering this profound and quiet calm that speaks peace in the chaos. Busy seeks to break this unique peace, yet something stirs inside to rise up, take arms, and hold ground of this beautiful fortified moment.          To tell a story through the actions of embracing a day (whatever that looks like). To live with focus of appreciation, intentionally, where joy is found in truly embracing this day that the Lord has made.           Hope! Hope! Hope in the busy, and I'm listening. Rest! Rest! Rest, as my spirit leans in to the presence of Jesus calling me to trust and depend on Him.          To tell a story, of a renewal, a restoration, and ...

 Trying, today, through Tuesday's tough times; taking time to try to triumph today...Tuesday.  Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support! 

              Just a word, then one more, to process busy, life and living. Just some effort, carving out a moment to decompress...somehow. Here, going, and going, and going yet more on another busy weekday.                "Just a word or two", I'd tell myself, "Enough to create a healthy release in this over saturation of activity." . Just a word that became two, three, and so on; building something to grow through the pressure. Just some "self care", some time to recover, hopefully, on a ridiculously busy Tuesday.  Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support! 

           Dreary and cold, still, steps are taken. This is where the Light is. To enter a day, do your best, even when it isn't the same "best" as others. This is where the Light is. Gray gives way to sunshine, bright and encouraging, shining hope and encouragement to worn souls and tired bodies; grace in the empowering on a Monday. This is where the Light is. No parting of a Red Sea, no miraculous healings, no dead raised......unless you include the parting of "Red Seas" we all face in life, the healing of faith in hope growing past the temporary circumstances that seemed otherwise, and the "dead" parts of us rising to new life inside. This is where the Light is; Jesus. This is the grace that yields strength to continue on, trusting by faith that IN AND THROUGH Jesus we can do all things given, even when that faith is a mustard seed (small); we all know what mountains that kinda faith can move.  Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a...

  One, rising, walking. Two, forward moving. Three, steps into the busy living of a day.  Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support! 

         Strength was all but gone (energy of any kind really), and the sweet taste of freedom appeared unreachable. Light was far and small, though it always is when you're looking up from a pit.           Despair drowns and covers further when an overworked soul is lost in the endless oceans of life, the ones that demand we respond, where we must sink or swim. Endless "seas" of responsibilities and activity leave us all spent far beyond our physical bodies; this is the reality of overwork and it's effects.          The walls are sheer and no escape looks to be a reality, though it isn't. Lying down in the dark, sleep takes our surrender and we are restored. Waking to the light of possibility in another day we enter it, look up once more, and realize the footholds in the wall. Climbing at once we eventually reach the top, see hope's light remind us it'll be better and we live again, all while remembering to res...

          It's work, waking, breathing, walking through each day (and all that comes with that). It's effort, to embrace life and not merely exist. This is the business of living.            I say all that to highlight one thing: work is MUCH more than effort given for financial income or some sort of goods and services rendered between two parties. Work is living, and this is a good work. The moment we begin to view work through this lens is the moment we get excited for the good work ahead (and the adventure that comes with it). This is the business of living, a great endeavor I hope we all remember is good work worth doing (myself included). Sidenote: If any of the writing on this blog has made a good impact on your life in someway (EVEN if it was something you may have enjoyed reading for a particular reason), please feel free to share this blog with someone else who could be blessed also. Thank you for your support!