Let your burdens go!

Our God is an awesome God......................
Just reading about the boy diagnosed with type I diabetes.........his momma needs reassurance....
Was reading about how much a momma loves her kids ..............if she did really love them she wouldn't be exposing them to a drug house full of men..........
Thinking about the one with the job she dreads going to each day......
Thinking about the momma who lost her husband and baby daughter................
There is the husband who has been abandoned by his wife.......
Thinking about the child who desperately needs speech therapy ..... his parents are in total denial...........
Thinking about the papa who is leaning over the toilet.......sick from ear surgery.......
Thinking about the family trying to gain custody of children who are their ...kin....
Thinking about the husband whose shoulders droop and his step is slower .....going to a job where he not treated well.............

His word tells us not to worry............His word tells us he has a plan for us...even before we were born.............. Lay your burdens at the cross this morning............. take it all to Him.....you can have peace, understanding......healing....maybe even a tiny bit of joy....

Listen to the words of .... IT IS WELL WITH MY SOUL.......written by a man who lost his 4 daughters in a shipwreck..........................how could he write these words???  God gave him peace.............

Cabin fever!

I think these kids have cabin fever today, too!!!  It is the end of January and +6! Treacherous icy sidewalks.....water covered....  Friday no school and two days next week! Help!  Not bored .... everyone is restless...so need green grass....and abundant sunshine....
Late day momma's pickup.........sigh....

....Sleepless in Canada...

Sleepless near the Arctic circle................well, no, not really, but feels like it could be......

Cough, cough, try to breathe...............two mommas up with little ones tonight...cough-cough, too.............the result of one momma who brought a sick child to day home......

The wheezing that the meds aren't helping.........the smell of eucalyptus.....

I need sleep....I need to breath...............

....a little light....

Anyone who knows me, knows how much I loathe winter and the cold and I don't hesitate to complain about it regularly.   When people say how pretty it is out......it would be much prettier on a card.....not in my world.

Yesterday I had my black wool coat on and big flakes were falling....the children noticed the snowflakes on my coat and thought they were so beautiful.  Most times we don't really see the intricate shape of the flakes, but against the stark black of my coat, even I had to admit they were pretty.........they only lasted a moment before dissolving into a tiny droplet.

Even in winter................if the fridge is full, the pantry stocked, the bottles on the wine shelf in a row, a messy pile of wood on the hearth.......I do feel a certain contentment.......a gratefulness if you will for what I have.   I have a very warm down coat, warm boots...actually a lot of warm boots...for every occasion and level of snow..........

Even in this icy land of long dark below zero, bone chilling weather we do have much to be grateful to God for.............and living in a land where we know in August what is to come we prepare and have the means to do so...........

I will still complain and dislike embarking out of my warm cocoon, but I also will take the time to thank...............