I don't know where this image comes from..but it is so lovely to me..if its yours please contact me I want to credit you! In fact, I may have used it before and will probably use it again! lol
The thing that intrigues me about this... is how fragile this dandelion is..yet how beautiful...it seems at the most fragile times in our life we can become the most afraid and doubting..and like this withering flower we wonder.. Can I really get through this? It is amazing what the Spirit can help us endure...there have been times when I have felt I couldn't trust another soul in this world and yet I could rely on the one who gave His life for me..feeling so fragile and even bendable..it is easy for the enemy to attack and torment me with the things I struggle with and it feels like with one swift breeze I could be swept away into despair..life can be hard..as a Christian I get up every day and do a battle that the world cannot understand..praying for discernment with my children, prayers for my marriage... that it would continue to be its best, with no room for the enemy to use evil, to destroy what the Lord says is good. Prayers for family members and friends with struggles of their own..as the world goes about its business and satisfies it own desires..I pray that mine would be His will and not my own...how good it is that we have a place to lay it all down and be encouraged that there is a reason for all things and we are given hope... someday we will have no pain or tears and this knowledge restores us so we CAN go on.. look back and see how very fragile we were... yet how beautiful..thanks for stopping by! love ya mean it! Stephanie
I took this photo as I stood at the end of the bed where my sweet dear friend Linda lay...my heart was so sad for myself.. but so filled with love for this woman..memories came flooding back as I was there..times where she had loved me back to the present as I told her things that had happened in the past..she would proclaim Jesus and comfort me and I would always feel loved and my spirit would be restored once again. I had never met a woman like her before...her laugh is the thing I will miss..because with the laughter, I always knew that what would follow would be love.. and I anticipated it ...when she spoke it was from the heart.. the words that give the only peace I will ever know.... Jesus..always Jesus..She loved the word of God with a passion and gave daily doses to anyone she was around and we loved her for it..She was a spiritual mother to me and really to anyone who was in her presence..she treated us all like one of her own and reflected Christ..The Lord must be so happy having her with Him in heaven. She loved to visit..always willing to sit and do so..she celebrated anything and everything...that was her way...she really loved people. Where there were holes in my heart the Lord used Linda to fill them and now there is a dull ache until I see her again... My biggest comfort is that she is in Abba's arms safe and in no pain..she is dancing with joy and laughing..she is home at last...Linda, I love you, miss you and thank God for the you..
