January 30th
I am sittin g on the couch in my sitting room in Alpine, Ut. I feel a stillness in my soul that I haven’t felt in a long time. I have come to realize that the sun, the mountains and the snow are all of God’s ingredients for perfection.
I didn’t used to like the snow. It used to be a nuisance to me. It takes longer to drive in it, it gets your car dirty, it’s cold and it’s an annoyance at times. Yet; now that I am well over middle age, it has become a thing of beauty to me. I don’t like foggy days, cloudy days, rainy days or invesion days. But when the sun shines on the snow it is a direct message to me from heaven that God is truly at the healm.
There is such an element of great majesty in all of God’s creations. I can only imagine what heaven must look like when I see the beauty of God’s hand in my little nest in Alpine, UT.
We do not always control what’s on the inside, yet what is outside of our safety net has a lot to do with how we feel on the inside.
Today the outside of my home is so beautiful that I want time to stop time at this very moment. I feel God’s presence in my life in a way that I haven’t felt in a long, long time. There is a picture of my family behind me and I honestly feel like they are all with me at this very second in time.
Maybe each one of them is reflecting on the goodness around them and that’s why I feel like we are together deep in the fibers of our soul.
Families are forever, it is the plan of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Even though my family is not with me physically at this very moment, I feel that each one of them hopefully knows how much they truly are a part of me. They say that blood is thicker than water and it also leaves a deep purpleish red mark on every fiber of our being. Water is clear and goes away, but the deep roots of family ties can never be replaced.
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