Consider the Lilly

  Don’t mistake a friendship for a mission.   I don’t believe in coincidence.   The Lord strategically puts people in our lives for a number of different reasons, times and seasons. We have to lean in to discern is this a friendship or is this a mission?    

 Are there any noble?  Is anyone really who they say they are?  Is social media all "influencers"? Is anything really true?  What happened to being unique or authentic? That's always been what I have been drawn to. Someone who sets their self apart from the rest. I've never been a moth to a light kinda girl. Most are. Most won't readily admit that and that's okay. You are one of two camps, either okay with that or haven't worked that out for yourself.   I have been praying about that same thing. Are they're any noble? Are there any truth seekers? Not your truth, but the ultimate truth. Do I want the ultimate truth or am I settled in my own truths? I crave truth, like literally in my bones. I hate a lie or a half truth (which is a whole lie). I crave people in my life who aren't social media perfectionist. Who want the same things in their own unique life. I like the weird. The song writers  who writes the lyrics of our hearts. The mystics who the w...

  Peter Piper Its an all to well known tongue twister. Its catchy too. I can hear children singing it and trying so hard to get it right. And the embarrassed laughter if they don’t. I was randomly thinking about this today and it made me wonder, “just who is this Peter?” and “what’s a piper?”   Well, a quick Google, or for me a Duck duck go, search and its done.   According to “bon appeitt”, Peter was a one-armed French country man. He was a horticulturalist and a missionary.     He traveled all over and smuggled some of the most aromatic spices and herbs that we know today such as clove and nutmeg.   He gathered plants and flowers from his excursions all over the eastern world. Peter planted gardens in his native land with all the gems he had collected from the tropical world known in those days.     Can you imagine how lovely his gardens must have looked to all the villagers.       Of course, to anyone else, they probabl...

  Psalm 23 ~ A Psalm for Today Hmm, this set of scripture is so beautifully poetic, but so over used and underappreciated.  Poetry? I’m not a huge fan myself.  But the language and the way it’s written has drawn me in.  As I have said, I love these verses, but have not always been a fan because of its over-use especially at funerals.  It’s not wrong on any account to these use this passage at a funeral, but for me, I find this passage is for us, now, in the land of the living. We’ll talk about that more in a minute. A little back story, for the month of December I decided that I wanted to read through the book of Psalms sections per day for the whole month. My plan was to make notes on things that stood out and go back over those parts more in depth. I read Psalm 23 and that was it. Didn’t make any notes just read it for the sake of reading it and marking it off my list.  Its February now and I’m still working my way through Psalms and my notes. Something k...

Dear March Were so glad you’re here. Days are warmer and getting longer.  the sun is shining brighter and warming the Earth’s sleeping ground. The birds are chirping the bugs are coming out of their burrows. Every creature is glad with what March brings. March brings hope. Hope of spring. Hope of new. Hope of joy. Hope of create. Hope of growth. Hope of tomorrow. February held true to its usual holdings. Wet, cold, damp, dreary, and let’s not forget the mud.  Only to be remembered now. We are to set face toward these new beginnings we call tomorrows.  Tomorrow is a new.         A new. I like the ring of that. We go through this first part of the new year.  New years are always filled with promise. Each new day is too, even if it’s a gray February day.      Join me going into March with February’s failures a miss. Only eager to what each new day will bring.  The God of creation beckons spring too.  His creation is crow...

                    Consider the Lilly   Consider the lilies how they grow they toil not, they spin not, and yet I say unto you that Soloman in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. ~ Luke 12:27 Let’s think about the Lord of all creation. He has created all things. He was satisfied with His creation, so much so that he called it good. A simple and yet so complex lily was a part of that glorious creation. I think its safe to say the Lord loves and appreciates beauty in all forms. Just look out amongst his creation. We find beauty in everything our sight can behold if we will take the time to consider. A lily, a wildflower of its time. To some even a weed. But the Lord. He saw it as so important that He tended to it. He provided for it.  The lily, itself, does not work. It doesn’t have to care for itself. It simply does as it was made to do. It grows.  From what you don’t see is all the activity that is taking pla...