Hello sunshine!

The sunbeams are dancing through the sliding glass window right past the carnation bush in the backyard. I just love natural sunlight in the house and it has seemed to be so rare this winter. Well, not today. Brooks just took me for a walk around Lake Meyer near our house. This was a pleasant shift from our usual walk on the island. It was a little gusty on the backside of the lake which only made Brooks to feel like 60 pounds rather than a mere 20 ("mere", pghhhh...), nonetheless, the walk was so perfect for today. I think we are supposed to be in Savannah for this very day - 72 and sunny and sincerely one of the prettier days I've ever seen anywhere. Thank you, God!

This morning I read this while the little boss slept. He slept an amazing 2 hours which has been about as rare as the sunshine this winter! I cleaned, read, folded laundry (the never ending chore), read, wrote, and even.....duh dun dun (like banging on a piano) BATHED! Yes, husband, I bathed before the 72 hour deadline! Anyway, I read this wonderful little passage in My Utmost for His Highest this morning and it was music to my ears and sunshine to my heart. Enjoy.

LEAVE ROOM FOR GOD

As workers for God we have to learn to make room for God - to give God "elbow room." We calculate and estimate, and say this and that will happen, and we forget to make room for God to come in as he chooses. Would we be surprised if God came into our meeting or into our preaching in a way we had never looked for Him to come? Do not look for God to come in any particular way, but look for him. Expect Him to come , but do not expect Him only in a certain way. However much we may know God, the great lesson to learn is that at any minute He may break in. We are apt to overlook this element of surprise, yet God never works in any other way. All of a sudden God meets the life -"When it was the good pleasure of God...."

Keep your life so constant in its contact with God that His surprising power may break out on the right hand and on the left. Always be in a state of expectancy, and see that you leave room for God to come in as He likes.
-Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest