Sometimes walking through life can mean more happiness than you can imagine. Other times it can give you pain unimaginable. I have learned that through both we must stand firm in faith. Faith that God has our backs. Our backs, our fronts, our sides.
We need to let go and trust. This can be the hardest thing for us to do. In a life we have to be responsible, take control of our selfish attitudes, control our thoughts and our tongues. Control our actions to be productive adults. But in gaining this control we can take control of things we have no business taking control of. The future, the past. We became so absorb in controlling we forget who truly is in control. Who has control of our very lives.
Yes we have to do what we know we have to do, but we are to have faith that God will control what we cannot. That He will never gives us more than what we can handle, nor will he ever leave us unprepared for what is to come. All that we go through today prepares us for tomorrow.
We are not to become consumed by worry. Today, tomorrow is but a fleeting moment when compared to eternity. Yes, sometimes eternity can seem an “eternity” away and tomorrow just full of pain. This is why we must all just stop a moment and look around. As the saying goes, “Stop and smell the roses”
Even in pain, we need to look up and see this creature that God has made. In it we can glimpse forever. We can see his handiwork and maybe just for a moment we will feel happiness, and our spirit will know a moment of peace.
Finding food.
Raven tracks.
This picture was taken by Connie, not myself.
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