Awareness

In the everyday busyness of my life, I think of what "I" need to accomplish.  I am thankful that it is not my agenda but God's that counts--and that all I really need to do each day is to breathe an awareness of His surrounding me. I do not need to go to so called "sacred" or special places to be with Him.  He is with me in my life's ordinary events and encounters--I just have to be open to this awareness.

Mt Rainier, William O Douglas Wilderness

Spray Park, Mt Rainier

We are safe in His Embrace

Unlike our peers and acquaintances, God never rejects us. Despite our sins that separate us from Him, despite our attempts to avoid HIm or escape  HIm, He seeks us, follows us, calls us, even pursues us. He is indeed the Good Shepherd who continually loves and wants and finds us, His lost sheep. Finally we learn we are safe within His embrace.

"I can never escape from your Spirit!

    I can never get away from your presence!
⁸ If I go up to heaven, you are there;
    if I go down to the grave, you are there.
⁹ If I ride the wings of the morning,
    if I dwell by the farthest oceans,
¹⁰ even there your hand will guide me,
    and your strength will support me.
¹¹ I could ask the darkness to hide me
    and the light around me to become night—
¹²     but even in darkness I cannot hide from you.
To you the night shines as bright as day.
    Darkness and light are the same to you.

Psalm 139:7 - 9

Van Patten Butte, Anthony Lake, NE Oregon

Ohope Beach, North Island, NZ