Tonight

There's something about brushing my big horse that makes the stress of the day roll off.

Last Weekend

• Mom, Eryn, Jess, and Declan visiting.
• Art show debut. Totally blessed by all the folks who came out for it.
• Markets days with Mom. Shopped till we dropped. Well, at least I dropped. Mom didn't - she ran circles around me, as she always does.
• Holding Baby Will-yum.
• Kissing my Pooh Bear's big nose.
• Hangin' out with the small group, including the Smiths!
• Hangin' out with the McGarys.
• Listening to Mom's Toast Master's speech, which was excellent.
• Too many goodbyes. 

Again, Wow.

My personal life may be crowded with small, petty happenings, altogether insignificant. But if I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God. Then, when I stand face to face with God, I will discover that through my obedience thousands were blessed. When God’s redemption brings a human soul to the point of obedience, it always produces. If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

~ Oswald Chambers 

Wow

The first thing God does with us is to get us based on rugged Reality until we do not care what becomes of us individually as long as He gets His way for the purpose of His Redemption. Why shouldn't we go though heartbreaks? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us fall and collapse at the first grip of pain; we sit down on the threshold of God's purpose and die away of self-pity, and all so-called Christian sympathy will aid us to our death bed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, and says - "Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine." If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

~ Oswald Chamber, November 1