Blacbird Therapy

As I am sitting at the pub-style table looking out the window into the beautiful street view, birds are fluttering and playing outside. It's a wonderful scene. Not to mention the SUN has finally decided to come out and reveal it's brightness! This makes it even better. Even with there being snow on the ground (which most of the time is pleasant) and the plants and shrubbery in a seemingly un-awakeable (yep, I just made up a word!) slumber, it all seems beautiful in its own way when the sun comes out. Life is good.

There is nothing more delightful than to revel and be in awe of His creation - in every season. As I am writing this, there is a young family outside the window looking at their almost flat tire in the parking lot. Hopefully it will work out for them! I can completely understand. Sometimes it's hard to comprehend or even think that we can't control everything. I especially have a hard time with this. A perfect example is when Stephen and I were getting ready for our vacation last September. I had dropped him off at work and decided to go to Blackbird Coffeehouse as a little treat for myself while I ran errands until I picked him up to head to the cabin. Well, in the midst of everything, I finally realized that I had locked the keys in his car. Great. That was the last thing I needed! That means that I would have to have someone pick me up, drive me to Stephen's work, and then go back to where the car is to unlock it. That would have taken a VERY long time. At the time, I had to decide to just sit down and be calm. It's like that saying you see all the time now, "Be Calm and Carry On." I felt like the Lord was teaching me out of this to be patient and SLOW DOWN. I can't control everything (unfortunately sometimes it seems). In the end, I could have unlocked the car much earlier if I rolled down the broken window and opened the car that way.

The Lord is awesome like that.

"Your God is present among you, a strong Warrior there to save you. Happy to have you back, he'll calm you with his love and delight you with his songs." ~Zephaniah 3:17 (MSG)