It's been a while since my creative side has emerged in terms of sharing on my blog. Business and the simple joys of moving home to be near my family in Virginia have been the object of my time well spent. Not a day goes by without a smile in my heart at the mere joy of being able to hug those I love so dearly! Truly I have been given a key to the door of hope so longed for and finally realized at last.
Life can be a season of joys and sorrows. In fact the truth is, we are faced with situations in which we can either find hope in the one who created us, or we seek to find it in other ways. Sometimes we truly do have to lose our lives to gain the simple childlike joy in which we see daily gifts of renewal sent from the father above to our hopeful hearts here on earth.
The good news is...we do not travel this road called life alone! My news feed is alive with news from friends and family as well as devotionals, bible verses, words of encouragement and pictures of the sweetest kind daily. Just last evening I received encouragement from a friend who loves my grandson and cares about his safety as if he were her own. True friendship goes above and beyond the normal limits we consider to be important.
This week I was thankful for prayers lifted up for my youngest brother Jon, who is very ill and hospitalized in Mississippi as I write. His faith and dependence on God are evident as he rests on the promises of healing to come. God is teaching us many ways in which a servant heart reaches out another in times of need. Friends are friends forever...there is even a song written about the very essence of this gift.
I received a card many years ago from a dear friend of a lifetime; whom, without her love and listening ear I may not have grown to understand the deep love and devotion I seek to share today:
Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor:
If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
But pity the one who falls
and has no one to help them up. Ecclesiastes 4:9-10.
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