Finding Abundance

The sun sets early now as daylight shortens. It’s still my favorite time of day. Watching the plants backlit by sun during the ‘golden hour’ is a simple pleasure that fills me, even on a day such as this. Ornamental grasses wave in the breeze, trees out the window release their golden leaves one by one. Another day, another week, another season . 

It's been a challenging season. Can you relate? What do we do when we receive one more diagnosis, another life limitation, or suffering that lingers? What do we say when God asks us to carry one more burden, or we wait another day for direction, a sign, an arrow? How do we keep going without losing hope? 

We pray, and we seek, hunting for the simplest of blessings - like golden hour sunsets, the laughter of children down the street, this warm cup of tea in my hand . . . the gratitude list begins again. I know each is a gift, and this really is a life of abundance, but easy to lose sight of when overwhelmed with life.

And we trust - God’s wisdom, His faithfulness, and His plan for us. No matter where He leads,we can follow with that assurance.

In Deuteronomy, Moses blesses the tribes of Israel, and when he came to Zebulun, he said,    
  “Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out . . . 
   feast on the abundance of the seas, 
   on the treasures hidden in the sand.”      
   Deuteronomy 33:19

God always provides in abundance. It may look different than what we ask for, and it might be hidden like those treasures in the sand, but its so worth digging for them right where we are. 

May grace and peace be yours in abundance (I Peter 1:2)