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| Photo by Roman Kraft |
The tall pine tree in front of my window dances wildly with the wind, and the sound of the fast air moving through the pine needles and branches remind me of the sound of the ocean. How I miss the ocean. A tiny airplane way up above travels who knows where. In the distance the sun casts its last colors as another day comes to an end. The birds do their acrobats up in the sky as they head to their place of rest for the night. The Sabbath is almost over, another week is about to begin. Hopefully this next week will be a little calmer, so I can better enjoy a recent blessing God has given me and my family.
You see, a while back we were pondering the possibility of moving to a different house so to be a little closer to my son’s school, but then we thought that we didn’t want to go through all the trouble of moving again. With that idea in mind we decided that when time came, we would renew the lease and stay in the house at least another year.
But life often throws unexpected things at us, and our plans get altered, and so our landlord decided to sell the house. Since we didn’t want to purchase it, we had to look for a new one. We had to move after all!
With limited time to pack and find a new house, lets just say life got a little more stressful. In spite of knowing that God would provide, as the days went by and we couldn’t find anything that would work for us, I worried.
It was then that we decided to see a house that had been on the market for a while, but had no pictures online. Why were there no pictures? After looking at the house and understanding why there were no pictures, we drove around the neighborhood for a bit. It was different. I liked it. There were trees, and the lawns had grass instead of the desert landscape we are used to. Tall brick houses reminded us of being in a different state.
As we stopped at a stop sign to turn and go back home, my son says “for rent!” We looked and sure enough, on the fence of a house there was a for rent sign. We quickly turned around to see another for rent sign on the garage door. Thinking there was no way we could afford a house in this neighborhood, we called the number on the sign and left a message. Two days later the owner called to explain a little about the house and to set a time for us to see it. And we did, and loved the house, and it was within our budget, and an amazing group of friends helped us move, and we’ve been here for almost one week now.
The house is bright, the backyard is larger than our previous one, and it has more trees. Fruit trees even. There are garden beds for me to play in the dirt, and we wake up in the mornings with our new feathery friends singing on the trees right outside the windows.
I will always be in awe of how God takes care of us so beautifully. And how often He not only gives us the desires of our hearts, but also so much more than we can think of or imagine.
As the now dark sky reveals the stars shining above, I am reminded in this recent experience, once again, that I am in my Heavenly Father’s care and I need not to worry.
Whatever you are going through, know that God, who loves you so much, is caring for every little detail of your life. It may be stressful at times, it may hurt, you may suffer. Life in this world is crazy like that, because our enemy wants to make our existence miserable. But, and I love this word at times. But God, who wants to make your existence an amazing adventure with Him, will get you through whatever you are going through. Because you too are in His care, and need not to worry.
"Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you."
I Peter 5:7
