Like a seed with so much potential
The New Year
plants itself in our lives whether we are ready or not. Life goes on.
This Christmas as I sat at the kitchen table of our family farm and watched my grandfather pass the potatoes to his new girlfriend I felt so many emotions at once. The loss of my grandmother was heavy on my heart. The house seemed different with her absence. My grandfather seemed different too. He had a sparkle in his eye that wasn’t there last year. He had a lady friend named “Joy” by his side that he was fussing over tenderly, sweetly, the ring he gave her shining up at all of us. Change is hard for most people. Sometimes it’s plain heartbreaking, but God gives us hope to cling to and the promise of something more. My Grandfather was devastated when my grandmother passed away. I remember holding his hand in the airport coffee shop and crying with him as he told me about her going to be with the Lord and the sweet memories of their life together. We could’t have imagined the “Joy” that has come into his life since, but God has given my grandfather peace and joy and a loving hand to hold at the age of 84. The mix of emotions I felt at the farmhouse unravelled by a quiet whisper that told me that while things were indeed different, they were also just fine. Life goes on...and sometimes seeds that were planted long ago can bloom again and again.
Seeds
Growth
Acceptance
Joy
Love
May your New Year be full of all of these and more...in Jesus name.
Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
