I just realized it’s been about two weeks since I last wrote a blog post. I kept meaning to get on here and write something, but last week we had three LONG travel days to get home, and this week we had to catch up on a month’s worth of yardwork and then clean the house a few times for showings. Needless to say, I am feeling deeply exhausted.

We are currently living in what looks like a polar vortex, but is actually tree shedding season. The white fluffy seeds are out in full force and I don’t think we’ve ever seen such a spring with SO. MANY. SEEDS. It’s truly unbelievable. Sitting out on the back deck feels like you are inside a snow globe, only it’s hot out. While writing this, I couldn’t help but think of the prophetic significance of seed. Last fall we had a profusion of apples on our tree. We also had so many pine cones in our pine trees that the branches were breaking off. Now we have so much seed in our yard, it looks like everything is blanketed in snow. I could choose to only see the inconvenience of this, or I can look with my Spiritual eyes, and see what God is trying to tell me. We are reaching into a place of the fullness of time, harvest is coming, seeds are coming, and an abundance of food through winter is coming. (Our squirrels pile up pine cones to eat through winter, and this spring they have so much leftover). I was sharing this revelation with my husband, and he was reminded of this verse:

The days are coming— this is the LORD’s declaration— when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the one who treads grapes, the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, and all the hills will flow with it. Amos 9:13

I know good days are here, even when the world seems to be heading the wrong direction. But we need to believe the declaration of the Lord. And His plans are always for good and not for evil, to prosper and not to harm. So rejoice!

I have been reading the art books I got from the library and watching art videos on youtube and squeezing in more classes when I can. It feels so good to be immersed in arty things again. I need to get time to actually get my hands dirty here too, but when I am feeling so exhausted from the everyday, reading and learning are still quite good for the soul.

And that word “grace”.. I’m learning to give myself and my family that too in this particularly unfamiliar season we find ourselves in.

Thanks, as always, for stopping by! And God bless!