Coming to peace with this season of my life:

• Change is good!
• If God made the world straight up and down, we would have no seasons or change; just the sun shining at the equator all year around. But God chose to tilt it on His axis--making a way for strawberries, red leaves, quiet snow, raging hurricanes, spring showers, and sunflowers standing high in salute.
• The tilt created change
• When transition comes--> learn to take small cues from the built in rhythm of the world.
• Chaos and change--> they aren't always bad. They reintroduce e to my smallness, my limits, and my need for God and help from others.
• Time-->how much work can be done in the dark morning hours. Time can be slow when ...

• 2/12/16 the celebratory Valentine's Day with your sister. How swiftly life can transition in unexpected moments of joy turning into dismay. When your best friend gets taken away for what feels like hours. You stare as tighness encloses on her little wrists and pulls her away. You wait. You chase. You pray. Give me a song to sing Lord in this moment.

You watch her from across the window and her vulnerability relents and pride is released. She can barely glance back in utter shame. Humiliation makes her hide. But love covers. Love avails. Love sees the beauty in the reflection. The purity in the disposition. The heart in the devotion. Never has Orange looked so beautiful. So holy. So radiating. His beloved. His delight. Jesus your light shines in darkness. Eternity touches time. Give me a song to sing to you Lord. Jesus how beautiful ...