Scattering Seeds: Moving Forward

Scattering Seeds...

SCATTERING SEEDS.

Settling into a comfortable chair, I took a small sip from a cup of steaming aromatic tea. It comforted me as I gazed out the window of the little tea shop. Only minutes ago the sun illuminated the landscape, brightening the rain soaked places that sparkled in the sun. All too soon, however, the accumulation of rain clouds rolled across the sky and closed it up again and the earth darkened.

This was a pensive morning. I had just left a friend who shared deep sorrow -- sorrow so deep that she was still wrapped in the raw pangs of it and unable to accept comfort. I thought about her shattered life and continued looking out the window with thoughts about sorrow and suffering and what we do with it as it shapes our lives. That's when I decided to create this blog. It's a combination of various stories of heartbreak and sorrow in my own life and how I got through each day, each moment, and every second of those wounded times now healed. And so the title, Scattering Seeds. I scatter little seeds of hope and pray that you will be encouraged in your own journey as you read my writings.

One thought comforts me. It's in the lowest valley of humility where we find God's comfort; in the darkest shadow of the mountain where we experience His peace; in climbing the dusty journey up the mountain where we know His power and His strength. Then we are given His vision for that which we can become in His design.

Photo description: A sun-break after the rain.

Sunday, July 18, 2010

Moving Forward

I believe that everything happens for a reason. I think the stressful things in life happen to test the limits of our souls or to help us see more deeply inside of who we think we are so that we can grow in a different direction if we need to do so. I've learned to be grateful for these growing times, as trying as they are, because I believe that means I’m moving forward -- not sinking helplessly in a stagnate pool of hopelessness.

In spite of the storm, I know that I can make it!