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Watching Over

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When our children are little, we watch, carefully and diligently.  We don’t want to let them get hurt, yet we want them to experience life and learn.  A fine and difficult balance.  On our first trip to Ireland, our little 7 year old Joshua wanted to climb everything he saw.  Every rock, wall, half crumbled staircase was his wonder of a playground.  And watching carefully, waiting to catch him if he needed it, we let him climb.  He learned and experienced and enjoyed his trip so much.

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God must feel like that with us.  He watches over us carefully, yet he loves us enough to let us experience all the climbs and hardships.  He knows that this is how we grow, and learn, and become more like Him eventually.  But it is so comforting to read, “The Lord will keep you from all harm – He will watch over your life; the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.”  ~ Psalm 121:7-8  We are not alone, and we have a loving Father who is watching and waiting to keep us safe when we need it.  Blessings, Lisa

Just Around the Bend

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It had been a long, hard journey across the sea.  Two plane flights, a seven hour layover in NJ, a sprained ankle, and three tired children, including a two and a half year old.  Procuring a rental car, securing the car seat, pouring over the map to locate the roads to Portmagee, and off we drove.  I was determined not to stop until we reached our little cottage.  But this view stopped me….Dingle Bay to my right, the wonders of Kerry just around the bend.  I was filled with expectation and excitement and awe at the beauty that God has made.  My poor worn out two year old and nine year old missed the whole thing, being passed out in the backseat.100_1545  But the view gave me just enough energy to make it to the aforesaid cottage; knowing what might be just around the bend was exciting and kept me driving on.

Keep on driving today….what’s just around the bend is full of wonder and needs you to discover it.  🙂  Slainte, Lisa

“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of His glory!”  – Isaiah 6:3

Take Every Hug You Can

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I’m feeling sentimental this morning.  This is my son and I outside a pub in Temple Bar, Dublin, back when I was still taller than him.  Now at 19 he towers above me, and is off having wonderful new adventures at college.  Treasure all those hugs, and be a “hug collector”….see how many you can collect today.  You won’t be sorry.  🙂  Slainte, Lisa

Impending Reunion

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I love these pictures.  My two daughters and I had ridden by jaunting car through the Gap of Dunloe, and my son and husband had decided to run/walk their way through and meet us at Brandon’s Cottage.  (You can just see the top of the little daughter’s blonde hair sticking up over the bridge. 🙂  )  We saw them coming and felt extraordinarily happy, as if we had been separated for weeks rather than hours.  And here’s Amy running to greet her daddy and brother.

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One day, when my adventures here on earth are over, there will be an amazing reunion up in the sky, with loved ones who have gone before me, and with Jesus, who loves me and will run to greet me.  What a reunion that will be.  Happy day!  Blessings, Lisa

 

You Can Run…

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You can run, and you can hide….

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But we’ll find you and take that picture!  🙂

Sometimes we all wish we could hide away…hide from our past, hide from responsibilities, hide from pain.  Crazily, we sometimes even want to hide from God, thinking that He won’t want to see us after what we did/said/thought/etc.  But He’s always there, ready to forgive and let us start over.  He’s watching over us as a loving Father, protecting and thinking of us even when we don’t know it.

“If I say, ‘Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,’ even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to You…..How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God!  How vast is the sum of them!  Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand, when I awake, I am still with You.” – Psalm 139:11-12, 17-18

How amazing that is to me…I pray heaps of blessings on your day today.  Slainte, Lisa