Craving a Cozy, Crumpled State of Mind

     Fall..... calls us to feather our nest with gatherings, community and a nestling in. 

 A dear friend and I were talking over the phone and after tucking away the summer memories we discovered the time of season is changing and we are craving a cozy, crumpled state of mind.

    Are you there yet?
  
A season....... to offer warmth and a place.  To begin a project, Bible study or carving out time for fellowship.

    Reading in Acts, after Jesus had ascended to the Father, the disciples are found, "joining together constantly in prayer......."  The season of joining to together in prayer, a lovely picture.

I'm ready to receive the invitation of fall and of fellowship, with devotion and prayer.    In fact I'm excited to fall into the Word with friends and dicover the warmth of His love and care and find a cozy crumpled state of mind......together.

    Will you join me?

Holding Life In

Looking back to my last post, (YIKES, May?) I realize how I hold life in and tend to express more inside myself and less outside myself. I thought I had written so much more about our life, here, in these daily moments. Sorry...... I will work harder at encouraging my thoughts to the page and I will celebrate the pondering and waiting that I do, with thanksgiving.... to the page! I will write about the simplicity even just to get it out and see that I had simplicity. Each day try to write a moment of time, here, at Eyes4C-ing. So much has happened that I won't go back for retracing but I will trace my thoughts to the page, today...... in this moment.

Today's journal entry, after encouraging a grief stricken friend........God cares and shows up in those who care.......take care.......receive healing.

God shows up in those who care, a great miracle indeed, offering hope, the hope that only Jesus has given them and the hope that Jesus is giving, through them, to me and others. I see them and I see Him and am grateful. My opportunity is to take care, and receive relationship and heal and I grab hold with determination and faith. Holding life in because He is holding on............HE is holding on to me. In all the phone calls, daily cares and processing of life, I want to remember..... His holding.

Now, back to football practices, phone calls, dinner, family and healing in the midst. His blessings to your moments........and holding LIFE in.