One Third...

...a milestone of sorts was reached this past week.

We are a little over a third of the way done with the "meltdown", as we have come to call it.

Experience of the past few weeks has answered lingering questions,

and prepared us better for what's to come. 

That always seems to be the case...

...God does not lead us to places that He has not prepared for us to go.

"It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want, but the experience of God's presence.  That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we really get."

Frederick Buechner

Prim posey...

"A flower's appeal is in its contradictions-so delicate in form, yet strong in fragrance, so small in size, yet big in beauty, so short in life, yet long on effect."

-Adabella Radici

"The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size." Gertrude Wister

Melting...

...the sun came out of hiding today.

A welcome reprieve from the icy grip winter has held for the last few weeks.

Though it was still quite chilly, the warming rays gave a comforting sense of things to come.

Even the birds, (who had been so silent in the recent frigid cold),

seemed to be celebrating with their songs this morning.

With each passing day of winter, we grow that much closer to Spring.

Sometimes, it's helpful to remember that.

A little reprieve.  A little sense of things to come.

Thanking God for this, because today we also were able to see another kind of "melting" going on, attacking and eliminating the enemy.

Praising God, for his protection and healing hand on our Baba.

"He will not let you stumble, the one who watches over you will not slumber...The Lord himself watches over you!  The Lord stands beside you as your protective shade."

Psalm 121:3, 5 NLT