Moments in Grace

So maybe the winter that never ends is really starting to get to you.   And after four solid months, now becoming five, of snow on the ground and biting wind and temperatures below freezing, you are longing for sun and trips to the park and just some warmth again.   It can be easy to start to complain.   It can be easy to start to whine a little. It can be easy to think of all the things you wish were different. And in these March days, maybe like me, you are reading through the Bible in a year and once again you come across this story in Numbers, this story of a people who found themselves complaining. And maybe you read these words and see yourself for a moment.   You look into the mirror of the Word and you see the ugly and the true and you realize that these words are an alarm for maybe…you. Because right there in the book of Numbers, is the story of the Israelites and their trip into the wilderness and how they got deliv...

The sun came out today.  This is nothing short of a miracle because I think I had started to believe that it would never show its glowing orb again. I mean, we all know that winter always becomes spring, but why is it that in the throws of icy deadness it can be believed that this is all that there is? That is will always be that way. That this is a good as it gets. That life has taken a turn into ugly and there is no going back and you better just suck it up because this is all you're getting, the hard, misery of life.  The deadness of winter. But then, just when we think we can't take one more long dark night, one long miserable day, it happens.  Spring. Why is it always so hard to believe that God won't leave us in the dark forever?  That He loves us.  That He brings darkness, even death for a mysterious reason but the morning always comes. And spring, it always follows winter. And God's love endures forever....