“When you come looking for me, you’ll find me. “Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I’ll make sure you won’t be disappointed.” God’s Decree.
{From Jeremiah 29:13-14 MSG}
I love looking for shadow crosses and hidden crosses everywhere I go.
But even more than that, I love looking for God’s beauty everywhere I go too.
It can be found everywhere, you know.
☀️ In the sunshine spilling through the windows, shining its beautiful glow against the wall.
Thank you, God, for the sun. And how you created it just for us. You placed it at just the perfect distance from the Earth so that it would keep us just the right temperature. That’s no coincidence, no matter what scientist believes it is.
Thank you for how when I close my eyes and put my face in its glow, it makes me feel at peace. It even gives my body some vitamin D that you designed me to need. And it reminds me that, when I’m in heaven, YOU will be the Source of all light and peace and provision, and there will be NO dark that tries to overshadow your presence.
🍁 In the leaves, masterpiece-artwork on the trees, one last “grand finale” explosion of color, before they depart for a season. Before winter comes and paints on its white caps of snow for a time.
Thank you, God, for a reminder that all of the colors are better together! Not one of them any more beautiful than the other, but the combination of all of them- breathtaking! Worth pausing and admiring! 🍃 🍁 🍂 A reminder that you know what you’re doing when you create us differently. And not just our skin colors, but our gifts and talents and love languages. None of us able to fully describe or reflect your beauty, individually, but together- and still falling short of the fullness of your glory- we come closer. All the colors, more able to paint a picture of your magnificence! But yet all the colors in this world still pale in comparison to the show heaven-colors will display for us!
Thank you, God, for seasons! 🌸 ☀️ 🍁 ❄️
Though we may enjoy some of them better than others, each one has an important role. Each one can serve to teach us something. And the fact that they come and go, reminds us that— if we hang on long enough, even in the deepest of winter ❄️ when things feel cold and dreary and dark— you will bring Spring and life and light again! In the bad days, we can be certain that good will come back around! But it’s you, Jesus, the Son, the Sun-shine in our souls, that bring light to ALL the seasons! No matter what it’s doing outside, or in the world around us, your presence brings joy and peace and warmth to our hearts. And your faithful sun, making its appearance in each season, is a great reminder of that, each day with its rising again! 🌅
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With the sun, we can position ourselves in a place to be more likely to see its beauty. More likely to see it rising in the sky, spilling its light and colors into the world around it!
Our family went camping back in September at Brown County in Southern Indiana. And we intentionally got up early one morning so that we could witness the sun rising over the hilltops, at the overlook down the road from our site. 🌄 It was GORGEOUS, and so worth it! But was it still hard to get ourselves out of bed to make that happen? Yes it was. We aren’t early-morning people by nature.
God showed me that seeking Him and finding Him everywhere can be like that too. Sometimes it’s not natural. Sometimes we don’t just “happen upon Him.” Sometimes we have to LOOK to find His goodness in a situation. And sometimes we have to look REAL HARD, with our eyes of faith instead of our natural eyes, because it can look like there can be nothing good in what we are seeing in some moments.
But if we go looking for Him, we will find Him.
Yes, when we get serious about finding Him and want it more than anything else, He will make sure we won’t be disappointed.”
He decreed it.
And- even if we feel like its delayed sometimes-
{He works in His own timing, not ours},
He ALWAYS keeps His Word.
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