An Ideal Summer Day

An Ideal Summer Day

The morning rolls in and I love the cool, if even just for a few hours where I get up with my coffee and once again listen, read, and pray. I know the sun is about to rise so I try and catch it. I put on my sneakers and hit the trail. I’ve timed this walk so that I can be on the west side of the lake just in time to catch the sun cresting the horizon. The sky ablaze with orange, red and yellow. In just minutes it is fully in the sky and the morning has come.

Oh the simple things, though they be… seem as though they're made for me.

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My Planned Life

My Planned Life

As I process this story again, God reminds me that He knew me and named me before I was born. He watched me as I was being formed in utter seclusion, as I was woven together in the dark of the womb. His eyes saw me then. What was perhaps an attempt of the enemy to 'steal, kill and destroy' - was providentially interrupted through the prayers of my parents and the wisdom and strength of skilled doctors...and my mother, she bears the scars as evidence of my planned life.

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