Rabbits & Flowers & Babies & Stuff
Life on this earth just continues to amaze me. How one day just blends right into the next until here we are…going into June 2011. How can that be? I should still be young with little children around my ankles and lots of bills to pay and a husband that comes home from work every night. Instead, I am older (some days feeling older than others), now with grand kids around my ankles at times and a husband who lives in heaven.
I look at life now through such different eyes…and a different heart. And the only thing that has changed both those has been God…by using my circumstances to MAKE me see Him as never before. Why is it that most of the time He has to back us into a corner with no where to look but to Him? I suspect that is the only way He can get us to look Him in the eye. And when we see our reflection in His eyes…we cannot stand what we see. That is what brings change. At least in me anyway.
There is so much about God that we don’t understand. So much about ourselves that we don’t understand. So much about life and death, family and friends, work and church, sickness and healing, asking and receiving and a million other “things” that we just don’t get. But, God gets it all. He knows all the answers and hears all the questions. He sees me fighting what seems to be a hundred rabbits eating my flowers and vegetables. He sees me at night sitting alone as I continue to mourn the loss of one that loved so much. He sees the woman who is losing her husband to addiction. The parent who is losing a child to sin. The man who is losing himself in his work. The mother who thinks she can’t go on with no sleep. God sees it all. All the stuff. Life. Hard. Long.
As much as there is of Him that I don’t understand…this I DO understand. He is very present with us as we walk through all this stuff. If I will take the time, He wants to make sure that I see evidences of Him all around me. Those things that can cause us to take our eyes off God can be the same things that can cause us to see Him…if we will just look. A rabbit seen through the eyes of a child…the blessing of children around our ankles…the sense of accomplishment of doing a hard days work…watching vegetables push up through the ground…His provision of finances to pay our bills…beautiful green grass growing and begging to be cut…being woken up by kids and watching the sunrise together. These are the things that are gifts. Gifts. The stuff that makes up life.
God does not play hide ‘n seek. He WANTS to be found…He wants us to see life’s gifts. He says that when we seek Him with all our heart, we WILL find Him. He sees us in our daily lives…the year 2011…June. He knows that summer lies just ahead of us…and He knows what that summer holds. I want it to hold more than just rabbits, flowers, babies and stuff…I want it to hold Him. Lots of Him. Seeing Him in everything. With a baby or two thrown in there for good measure…smile
Sending much love,
Debbie
