While I'm on the subject...

Richard has been working on my small porch area. I got tired of the Bermuda grass from the common area creeping into the planter and taking over...got tired of pulling up grass from between the bricks that cover the floor.

I used to enjoy planting and tending. I don't anymore. Can't say why and I don't think its much more than just not having time anymore. But my life is good and filled with God stuff.

I digress. Richard pulled up an amazingly cool tree. I asked him to. It was going to die. It wasn't getting the sun it needed because the pine trees on the property were overshadowing it. It stopped producing berries and buds about a year ago. I loved how it bowed over the walkway. I digress again. Richard chopped it down for me and left this huge root for me to check out before he threw it out.

At one time there was a sprinkler system watering this tree. The tree grew around it and swallowed it up. Once again I see the strength and tenacity of life to go on. Once again I am sure that most would comment on the ruined sprinkler system while I stand and marvel at the determination of life to continue regardless, in spite of what is in its way.

Nothing could hold Jesus in the grave. Life can not be quenched, ever.

God's purposes will prevail.

Ah, He is so in control. He is so completely in control.

The sprinkler system didn't have a chance.

There is probably more to this story...I can feel it. Maybe later.

and the times, they are a changin'...

It's just about that time of year again...when sprouting life pushes through the asphalt of the church parking lot. A year ago I wrote about brokenness being life forcing its way through our man made crustiness. We call parking lots in that condition 'broken', in terrible shape, a disgrace. I wonder why we can't look at a parking lot in this condition and call it a wonder. Why cant we call it a marvel because, once again, it proves that life pretty much works its way out no matter what has been trying to hold it down.
I say this hoping I will come to an understanding, a settling, a confidence in the fact that God is not going to be held down by my neediness to keep things as they are.

Change is inevitable and I am amazed at His timing.

He is absolutely in control.

And I am quite aware that I am not so dependant on things staying the same as I once was. I have come to the realization that it is in the changes and upheavals that I find God quite constant and steady.

Cant explain right now what is going on but I can tell you, after initial shock wears off, there is an excitement swelling up inside me....

Holy Spirit stuff is happening.

I am not going to miss out on it.

I will stay still and watch and listen.

God is on the move...can you sense it?