Hi you! Thanks for being here! In a few short weeks and we will officially be welcoming Summer! 

I’ve been feeling the tension of this change in my life the past couple of weeks one reason being the more consistent warmer weather during the day and the main reason is working on the Summer Seasonal Journal that is coming out soon.

I had a friend ask me recently how that felt being in a particular season and writing and creating for another one and it is interesting …

I will say in some ways it has made me even more diligent in staying connected to the season of SPring. It would be easy to just go ahead and jump into all things summer … it’s all you see in the stores and with all the end of the years celebrations and graduations there’s definitely the urge to close the chapter and move on from this season…

But I want to fully live in the season I am living. Right now… Savoring every moment and receiving  them as a gift from God and staying present to receive all that is for me during this time.

As someone who craves and loves change…it’s a pleasure to welcome the new…but wisdom is teaching me to stay…to take it all in one more time…to not miss one seemingly mundane moment in the season where my feet are planted in this very moment.

There’s something sacred about seasons.  Each and every one of them…

The past few episodes have talked a lot about growth.

And about how we were created to grow and flourish.

And now that I think about it what I’m talking about today has to do with growth as well…I guess it all has to do with growth, doesn’t it? Ha

I love sharing and reminding you that you were GOd’s idea and he longs to have a close relationship with you.

And I think when we think of love our hearts and minds go to beautiful feelings and moments. We long for love and love brings life to us. 

I have never lived a day not knowing how loved I am by a father and a mother and sisters and a brother. I know how blessed I am to be able to say that. 

But in my younger years, the love of my parents could oftentimes feel like confinement and boundaries that I found myself wanting to cross…

It’s no secret that as you get older and have children of your own you see your parents' love from a different perspective.

Love doesn’t always feel loving…

Real love, loves even when it’s not easy…

Real love isn’t about all the right words, although sometimes they are

Real love is backed up by action

It’s solid and reliable, unmoveable by circumstances.

That’s the love that your God has toward you…

No matter if your circumstances might be trying to convince you otherwise. 

You are loved.

One of the most beautiful loving gifts God has given us is his spirit … when we choose to believe and receive Him…leads and guides us, comforts and instructs us… strengthens and empowers us.

One of the reasons I’m so passionate about being intentional about “being still in our lives to know and recognize God in our lives” is not because he’s not powerful enough to be bigger and louder than anything else in our lives…

But it’s because I believe the biggest plan of the enemy is to keep us so distracted that we don’t see, hear or recognize God’s hand + voice in our lives.

We read scripture and are in awe of the mystery + the miracles yet often struggle to embrace those 2 things in our own lives.

We read account after account of men and women's whole lives were filled with highs and lows yet their faith was steadfast in trusting the leading of their God.

Just this week I was talking to my husband about how God had so incredibly confirmed something I was working on with the Summer journal. As I walked him through the steps and events that were all so supernaturally threaded together. I told him it’s such a weird mix of blown away and normalcy (kind of like that word super-natural that I just used) ha

Because it’s so are you kidding me that just happened to this is life being led by his spirit. 

But here’s the main thing I wanted to bring up today…as incredible as those moments are. And I never want to take them for granted!!  I’ll be honest…I had the thought …God I have no doubt I am seeing your hand at work in my life and as meaningful as this moment is…why this moment??

When there are more important requests or needs to me…

And as the words more important to me left my thoughts…they resonated… echoing back to my spirit…that’s it “to me”

My thoughts are not his thought neither are my ways his ways…

His are higher…he sees my beginning and end and he’s working in me for his plans and purposes, not mine.

Do those overlap?  Absolutely they do… and in a more extraordinary way than I ever realized till years ago when I was walking through something hard…losing grip of something I wanted so badly. And it wasn’t until later I could see he is always answering the cry of my heart.

It just doesn’t always look like it because I’m focused on something temporary that isn’t the foundational purpose and plan.

It’s all about love that I mentioned earlier…

He loves me and he loves you and love is more concerned with me being formed into his image than he is with my comfort or circumstances.  And the reason is he knows my comfort ( that comes from him) is above any of these things.

So can I remind you today that his love towards you is PERFECT! Even if it doesn’t feel or appear perfect to you! Just as a parent has to express and parent each of their children in a way that benefits their unique growth..God, our father does the same with us. That’s why you can’t fall into comparing or questioning why someone else seems to have it easier …for starters life is life for everyone so don’t be fooled in thinking anything else! But also we are being led and empowered by the very hands that formed us with the purpose he has for us.  The path and race that he has set before us and that he has promised to complete in us.

I’m praying for you listening that you will have ears to hear what the spirit is saying to you in this season. And that you will trust the love that he has towards you…that you will walk in faith and confidence knowing that he is for you and will finish what he started in you!