Be Still and Know...Then and Now

It is still very early, the sun is peaking it’s way through my sunroom windows. As I was finishing up my quiet time with the Lord this morning I began to thank him for all the very small things in my life.  A warm quilt to cuddle up in, a sweet sleeping puppy curled up next to me, an nice hot cup of coffee and my quiet house surrounding me. This morning there are many who are waking up with no home, no warmth, no electricity. It will be many weeks, months even before their lives will return to normal. I feel certain that the small comfort of a warm blanket and a hot cup of coffee would be a welcome addition to someone who has lost there home to the storm. The women in my small group often talk about all the brokenness in the world. The recent storm has swept a multitude of brokenness upon so many people. On a much smaller scale we all run into brokenness in almost everyone we meet. It’s a broken world and we all have to figure out how to live in it. Just this past Wednesday when ...

Well it can not be said enough in my opinion. Thank You! Thank you to all my wonderful blogging pals out there. Over that last several weeks I have been blessed to win a blog give away (or 2, or maybe 3, what can I say when you're hot you're hot) and I wanted to give a big shout out to all you wonderful blogger's out there for giving us all lots of opportunities for some fun and some really neat give aways. Here is my prize from Becky's 200th post give away!!!! Yea for me!!!!!! I also love a good book and I can't wait to get started on it. I won it in a drawing over at Mocha with Linda . I am almost finished with my current read so I should be able to get started on this one very soon!!!!! Then I received theses wonderful note pads from Gumbo Writer for being her 100th follower!!! Lastly, I can't really show y'all yet but I am real excited about the blog make over I won in Patrice's Dominican Republic Mission Trip Raffle. As soon as we both get our du...

Is there anything better than waking on a Saturday morning to a heavy downpour? The sound of the muffled thunder and beating of the rain on the roof. I lay surrounded by my sleeping house in my warm bed, listening to these amazing sounds knowing that I could linger as long as I wished. I did not have to get up to go to work or take a child to the doctors office or make some important appointment. All I had to do was lay warm and cozy in my bed and listen to the welcome and the washing of a new day. What gift from the Lord.