Giant’s Causeway, County Antrim, Ireland
-2Corinthians 4:17-18
There are not always answers to our never ending “why’s”. Sometimes things just happen. Not so good things. Very, very hard, never ending things. Physical as well as emotional. My first instinct is to ask “why?”, but over the past few years of seemingly constant injury and surgeries, I have learned that maybe God just wants me to be faithful. To trust Him, no matter what. Just to be…..to breathe…..to stay quietly in His green pastures beside His still waters. To praise Him, because He knows what He is doing. He is making me more like Him. He is strengthening me. He made me, He sustains me, He loves me. No matter what.
It is so freeing……I don’t have to figure out the why’s. I don’t have to do anything spectacular. I just have to be faithful.
Praying for you, because I know all of you are probably going through something hard right now as you read this. Big hugs. Love, Lisa
Photo: Sheep quietly trusting and abiding on a cliff edge in Donegal, Ireland.
Planning to do this or that; a list of things to come
Thinking of what could maybe be, or maybe not be
But fixing my eyes firmly on You, my maybes fade away
Into the surety of what is, what will be, what will always be
Love, hope, forgiveness, mercy, healing
My mind quiets and settles at Your feet and in Your care.
c2017 Lisa Lyons
Storms of chaos, fears, disability, anger, helplessness
Waves larger and larger till you feel that you will drown
But there is One who can walk right over those huge waves
With one Word, “Peace,” they are gone
Calmness and peace and stillness and smooth water
All around
Cling on to that promise. Slainte, Lisa
c2016 Lisa Lyons
“I am prepared to go anywhere, provided it be forward.” ~David Livingstone
“Forward, ho!” ~Sing Street
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