Snowmageddon Lesson

With the effort of an elephant trudging through knee high mud combined with the determination of an Olympic athlete, I don my winter gear and step out into a once-in-a-lifetime, Pacific Northwest Snowmageddon! I have set my goal at walking seven miles a day and I will not be detoured by twenty plus inches of snow.

Completing a few laps, the numbness has overtaken any rational reasoning and my mind is aimlessly drifting towards thoughts of warm beaches, sandy, azura blue waters and swimming with my sea creature friends. Pausing to adjust my Snowmageddon gear, I look down carefully tucked under this gigantic tree, out of the way of any snowdrifts, is the start of something new. Daffodils are pushing their way up. I would’ve missed them if I had not stopped to “adjust” my gear. Right here in the middle of this artic frozen landscape, they are growing and in due time will produce one of the first glorious signs of Spring.

Continuing my walk, I was grateful that I did not miss this! Literally, in the midst of the storms of life, God is often doing new things in us, but we fail to “see” these forming. All we “feel” is the uncomfortableness or disappointment that things are not turning out as we had hoped. We fail to really “see” what is taking place.

As we continue to walk through life today, may He open our eyes to “see” the new things He is forming in us.

Until We Chat Again,
Crystal

For I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. - Isaiah 43:19