July's jaunty wintery Jogs
July will surely endeavour to outdo June. Her icy tentacles constantly wrapped around us, chilling to the very bones. Blasts of freezing winds encouraging the desire to remain indoors. Not that we have snow here, but the southerlies and westerlies have been sweeping around those snowy slopes before swooping in around us. Severe frosts have ensured that all the grass crackles underfoot. What the drought did not kill off the winter's cold has everything brown and lifeless. Trees and shrubs tingle with cold and thirst - so cold the frost almost freezes the leaves. This year the frosts have been very possessive, hanging on long after the sun has arisen, glaring down instructions to depart. Frosty lingers on, Sun has warming influence, melt comes, allowing prisms to flash here and there, as the thaw proceeds. Sunshine always sends frost scampering off eventually.
We had a small grey kangaroo snacking in our top house paddock most of the afternoon. Not that our paddocks have much to offer. After a while it chose to rest and had a gentle snooze, ignoring our dog's half hearted barks. It was a pleasant experience to have the kangaroo visit. It is not often they are alone, they usually graze in numbers, family groups.
Daily I praise God for the recovery I am enjoying. Some days are full of reminders that this is not an instant fix!! There is a long way to go, but with God as my Physician and Companion, my healing will be complete in His time and not mine. This illness, although self induced through the evil of stress and ten years of being a carer for my husband, has brought me to the point where God wanted me. He allows us afflictions that we might recognize our need for Him. Without Him we are nothing!! His mercies endureth forever, and daily He sustains us. He promises to answer us when we call. "I will never leave thee or forsake thee" is His sure word. God delights to bestow His blessings upon us. It is ours to do the asking. "Ask and ye shall receive"
I have been receiving His blessings all through this journey of recovery.
Some days, I sit in wonder at the miracle of prayer and His majestic responses. I am so privileged to be a child pf the King!! To be the clay and He be the Potter!! Make me what Thou wilt only never remove thy Holy Hands from me!!
May your July Journey find you in His hands too!!
