Child of God
500 is the number of people living in “Saddlebrook”, the temporary atco trailer type community north of High River because they have no ‘home’ to go to. 500 is the number of homes that are currently not occupied in our sweet little town of High River, Alberta. Oh flood of June…..you sure did a number on us. Praying for my community this morning.
Saw a wolf in the ditch at night and I was glad It reminded me That The whole earth is full of His glory The whole (not just bits) And Not everything is in my control Someone Else (more capable than I and far more loving and just) Is In Charge (Whew)
The waiting place – as Dr. Seuss rightly points out, is a hard lonely too quiet place to be. I’m there now. Waiting for my heart to be restored. Waiting for our community to be restored. Waiting for my home to be restored. Waiting for the return of joy, a ready laugh — hope.
And in the waiting what to do? What exactly is one to do? Be faithful in little seems reasonable — logical (if difficult). Look for the silver lining in this cloud and fog. Believe and hope in a God who has my future secure (somehow…though not in the way I thought). And speak and think truthfully from the heart.
It’s no good saying “I love the waiting place”. That I understand the waiting place, that I feel secure here, that I am at peace, when I’m not and I don’t.
The One who knows me best. Knows the verity of my every thought and of my every word spoken and un. He knows better.
So why lie.
Colleen R. Jantzen 