simple life

Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant.  If they watch every cloud, they never harvest. (Ecclesiastes 11:4)

each year, the farmers and farmer wannabes in my life fret about the weather. today there's too much rain, tomorrow not enough. elements beyond control threaten to ruin livelihoods at a moments notice. and yet, each year, regardless of the fears and anxieties of those planting the seeds, the crops grow. they grow and fruit and flourish, seemingly impossibly in the face of the weather patterns of the year. and without fail, there's harvest. 

life is the same - so much time is wasted by worry - and when you come through the stress it seems so easy, so obvious where your path has taken you. the last few months have been like those uncertain weather patterns for me and mine. it feels as though i have been operating crisis to crisis, each more serious and apparent than the last. but god is faithful. he has gotten me safely through to the other side of so many challenges, he will guide me in this next leg of my journey as well.

through the dark, uncertain times, this is what i need to remember, that regardless of the storms that i face or the drought that threatens to demolish the fruits of my labor, there will be harvest. i need to persevere and stay the course.  i will come through it. i will not be forgotten or abandoned.

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