“Seriously, frost?” I pouted, as I went out to get in my car this morning. “Nooooo…. not yet.”
“Seriously, is that the way you want to start your day?” said the still, small voice inside. 😉
And no- it really wasn’t.
“Look for the good,” His words bubbled up into my mind, like a piece of broken off ice floats to the surface of a glass.
“Look for the lovely, the praiseworthy.”
So I looked.
Beyond my “overripe” car- as my son calls it.
(Overripe because she’s a sight, lol.
And a SOUND! 🤪)
Red as a tomato.
So loud with her fallen-off-muffler
that my daughter calls her a cowsquito. 🐄 🦟
(Think both of those sounds, combined and amplified, and that’s what she sounds like when I hit the gas. 😬)
I looked beyond her over-ripeness and her noise,
and thanked God that she’s still running 14 years after we got her. 🚗 Thanked him that she still gets me around town!
I looked closely at the windshield, with its one wiper not working, and then chose to look closer yet as I was scraping it off.
Have y’all ever noticed how truly ornate and beautiful frost is? ❄️ It’s surely not my favorite, being cold, but there’s no denying God’s artistry in snowflakes and frost crystals!
Have y’all noticed how warm 🔥 and inviting and cozy homes feel, when it’s frosty? How thankful you become to have heat, when you’ve been out in the cold for awhile?
There’s so many things I’m looking forward to this winter, even though I’m so not ready for it to be here. But there’s PLENTY of praiseworthy to be found!
I believe it’s going to be a season of even more gathering! A season where some will finally get a moment to slow down. To get together. To grow in their relationships with God, and get plugged into a group!
I believe it’s a season where He’s asking me to take everything I learned in my past life, and do it for him. Gather to honor him! Connect because I want people to know his love! See hurting hearts and share the BEST healer. The BEST opportunity! The chance to get in on the eternally good stuff.
I believe it’s a season where we are going to see MANY get saved!
A season of AMAZING GRACE!
How sweet that sounds! ❤️ 🎵
And as I was thinking on all this today-
all this good and beautiful-
the praises grew so loud in my mind,
that I forgot all about the cold,
and the cow-squito sounds! 😉 🙌❤️🙌
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Philippians 4:8 -“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is fair, whatever is pure, whatever is acceptable, whatever is commendable, if there is anything of excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy—keep thinking about these things.”
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