After the Storm..

I was standing at my kitchen window the other morning and I looked out and saw these fellas enjoying the morning sun. It has been a rough week for them. Pappy has kept them fed and watered and the gate open to go up into the shed under the barn, but I think they are as glad as we were to see that sun break through all the gloom and doom.

Watching them doze got me to pondering on the things of life. I was thinking about storms..not the physical storms so much as the spiritual storms that we all have in our lives. I don't know but a handful of you that read this blog personally. But I know this, if you are breathing air you will have some kind of "storm" in your life eventually.

I have to confess sometimes I don't handle these storms very well. I get mad. I whine. I throw fits. I question. I ask why. How does that work for me? Answer: Not very well. All it does is make me more miserable. Not to mention those around me. :)
Usually when I calm down and gather myself up...after the Lord has reminded me that He is bigger then any storm. I am ashamed. Ashamed of the fits, the doubts, the why's, the questions. And it isn't that God has His thumb on me grinding condemnation into my being. The Lord does not work like that. It is that His grace is so amazing that I wonder how can I ever doubt His goodness, His kindness, His faithfulness, His provision, His protection. How can I doubt when I have seen it, experienced it time and time again? What a faithless woman am I.

We are human.We get tired and weary. We get sick and discouraged. We face death of loved ones...and of ourselves eventually. We see the starving, the homeless, the violence. The ugly black sin of this fallen world and sometime it overwhelms. And we wonder...Where is the safe harbor?

It is in Jesus.

Jesus tells us to do this...
" Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." Matt. 11-28,29,30 NASB

I looked at those horses and the thought came to me..that is the way we need to be. Yes we have storms. Sometimes they are hard to get through. And sometimes we don't think we will make it. But if we will let Him He will provide all the strengh we need to get through. And He will provide the rest at the end.

Rest in Him and abide in Him today.

God Bless and Happy Trails
RanchWife