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July 22, 2009
A peaceable habitation
With all of the drought and deadness all around us the Lord continues to brighten the corner where we are.
Looking out of my kitchen window I observed at least six bright, happy cardinals flying back and forth with an assortment of other merry feathered friends flitting and perching all about on the trees and fences. It was just an incredible sight to me seeing these birds in the heat of summer. It looked like a bird santuary or wildlife preserve.
A timid, thirsty squirrel approached the water buckets for a drink and indulged in a good refreshing draught while washing his paws and face. Do squirrels have paws? Never mind...he was doing what squirrels do after scampering tree limbs and seeing the coast is clear with no dogs or cats around.
I also have a beautiful "pet" orange butterfly that favors my little green herb garden above all other place she could freely visit. Part of one of her wings is clipped a bit, but she is not daunted in the least. Many other varieties flutter about with her spiraling and doing fancy patterns, but she just stand out as my very favorite and trusted "regular".
The hummingbirds are also starting to sip the nectar out of some lovely flowers that I rescued that were near death from Woodson's one day. They are really blossoming out, and I am so happy that I splurged a whole quarter a piece for them.
Of course, there are all sorts of frogs and toadies amongst the cool clay pots. Perhaps at night some copperheads may venture forth from their dens to have a slither about looking for snacks.
The whole of it is this...the good Lord delights to cheer our weary souls in the dry and barren desert. This little visual oasis is so cheering to me...it is yet another one of His songs in the night.
Thank You, dear gracious Lord for the beauty all around me and giving me eyes to see the deeper blessings.
"Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept: and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain of the LORD to the mighty One of Israel." --Isaiah 30:29
Posted by Marilyn at 01:41 AM | Comments (0)
July 18, 2009
It is well with our well
Yesterday our very old well decided that it was time to say goodbye.
This was something we had always had in the back of our minds since buying this vintage farm quite a few years ago now. Many other things have had to be completely replaced. Water is the vital ingredient to life so the thought of being without it brought much fear and dread to my overly active imagination. In acceptance there is peace. The Lord gave me the grace to meet it head on, and not to react in my usual panic mode. I knew without a doubt that He was going to lead me through it for His good, acceptable and perfect will.
First priority was to call Grant and to enlist him in immediate,earnest prayer for wisdom and help. After asking him to pray, I was able to get a "Yes, ma'am, I can be right out there this afternoon." response on my first call to a well repair man. This is just incredible in the middle of a Texas heat wave drought with the water table low and many people calling for service.
The news that we had been dreading to hear for so many years was that indeed our poor well had served us "well", but could do it no longer. This meant a major re-do with "pulling" all the pipe, wiring, motor, and old pump out of the ground. In order for them to get their big pump truck into the yard they had to cut my beautiful vintage fencing with wirecutters. They don't make this kind of wire anymore you understand. It is rather beautiful and antiquey. It had to be done.
They came back the next morning just as he had promised and began with wonderful efficiency. It was such a comfort to me to know these men knew exactly what they were doing, and actually seemed to enjoy their work. Now that was refreshing to behold.
They had the new well completely in place, and up and running perfectly by the afternoon. We had been only one day without our blessed well water. Many hallelujahs! and thanks to our gracious Heavenly Father for His wonderful, incredible provision for our need of water. Not just any water, but absolutely the clearest, freshest, coldest, tastest water you have ever tasted! I'm thirsty..gonna go get a drink and thank the good Lord for every blessed drop!
"Thou hast dealt well with Thy servant, O Lord, according unto Thy Word." Psalm 119:65
Posted by Marilyn at 03:01 AM | Comments (0)
July 12, 2009
My songs begin...
"Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of Thy waterspouts: All Thy waves and Thy billows are gone over me, yet the LORD will command His lovingkindness in the daytime,and in the night His song shall be with me and my prayer unto the God of my life." Psalm 42:7-8
"Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage." Psalm 119:54
Where else to begin but with God's Holy Word. This is a long overdue journal of thoughts and loving glances at my Saviour Jesus Christ.
I don't know the author of this poem taken from "Streams in the Desert", but love the mental picture it gives of laying aside the earthly abode for the wondrous one in heaven being prepared for us.
I'm going by the upper road, for that still holds the sun,
I'm climbing through night's pastures where the starry rivers run:
If you should think to seek me in my old dark abode,
You'll find this writing on the door,
"He's on the Upper Road."
(A Scottish highlander perhaps wrote this?...very lovely)
To be sure while going through those night pastures he was singing a song the Lord gave him.
Posted by Marilyn at 06:39 AM | Comments (1)