Canyons & Fireworks

This past spring we planted our herb garden with the help of two of our nieces. The girls, who are four and five years old, were more than happy to dig and not afraid of getting dirty. Grace is the four year old whom I call "Dipples" for obvious reasons. Dipples has a way of tugging on my heart strings with the cute things she says. Once when we were coloring she looked over at my drawing and asked, "Does your little cloud need a rainbow?" She then proceeded to draw a rainbow to accompany my lonely cloud. After planting Dipples made another comment that immediately got filed in my long term memory bank.  She was pleased that I was giving the herbs a heavy watering because, "plants need sunshine, water, and the birds to sing to them." My heart melted at her four year old perspective. Little did I know this was not just an adorable Grace-izm but there is actually a sonic bloom theory. The idea is that the frequency of birds singing early in the morning helps...

I came cruising into my day refreshed and ready to go. Then I experienced anger. Someone's misinformation inconvenienced my easy breezy day.  Anger is one of those emotions I find less becoming than others. I was trying to calm myself down when Holy Spirit reminded me that I was not designed to reconcile my emotions on my own. In the past I have fallen prey to ignoring and stuffing my emotions, but nowadays I am more likely to try and reconcile my emotions on my own. Perhaps when I have "figured out" what needs to change, I then might go to God to request said changes. Today, I managed to be reminded that God likes us to come to Him raw. In the heat of anger or depths of despair He wants to be invited into what we are feeling, thinking, and experiencing. This takes awareness and practice! His ways are higher than ours and His thoughts higher than our thoughts. When we go to Him immediately the rewards are great. But today, I realized the welcoming of raw unfiltered emotio...