Category: Eternal Hope In Jesus

Prayer for the Daughter I Always Wanted (TM) - New Year, New Choices

12/31/2025

Three photos in today's post by Donna Turpin

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Have you been on a journey that seems bleak?
Are there curves and hills that seem endless?
Perhaps right now you only see a blip of light on the horizon?

Maybe you feel like the path is like a conveyor belt you can't get off.

You may be weary this New Year's Eve as you face weeks of clutter and chaos following shredded gift wrap, and late-night movie with pizza binges with friends and family. Maybe you're road weary as you do the sixth load of laundry preparing to return to work.

Whatever you are experiencing, I pray today you will know that you know Ephesians 3:20-21 is true. God can do more than we could ever dream, carrying us from empty to overflowing (TM), into new beginnings if we let Him.

This is my prayer for you, my dear reader. Lord, please use what You have entrusted to me to help this woman face her life with more courage and hope.

Please help her understand the power of learning to trust in You, Father God, when we can only see the next step, or half a mile to the bend in the road. And the power of owning choices, both good and bad.

Open her heart to realize learning is not a straight line. It took some hard hits before I learned true hope exists. Zigzags and re-starts, stumbles and falls, before I got back up to try again.

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Sunsets and Sunrises

2/4/2020

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Embracing change
is often fueled by
our willingness to
shift perspective.

When we left the farm to move back to a metro suburb there were many changes.

I was thrilled to be reconnected to my husband after a 14-month time of transition for his new job and our property sale.

A vastly different lifestyle, environment and outlook awaited us on the other end of this 800-mile journey. Rather than grieving in the new location, however, the Lord graciously shifted our perspective to enter in fully to His new gifts and era.

There, at The Meadows of the Good Shepherd, we enjoyed our animals and the quiet peace, set apart from hustle and bustle of road noise. It was a good life. Simple. Quiet. Joyful. Filled with beautiful sunrises and sunsets, a view of deer feeding, wild turkeys, our redbud grove and peonies as well as the smell of freshly cut hay.

In the new location, however, I no longer see the sunsets, sunrises or have ready access to the serene nature setting I loved so much at my country house. There is a change of dark to light and back, but I cannot behold the brilliant palette of vivid color that graced our horizons on the farm.

The sunrises and sunset are still happening in the city for God does not change. We’ll just have to travel a bit to find them and remain open to the adventure that presents.

It is all a part of the trade offs of one season to the next. Like winter to spring and summer to fall — each has their own beauty.

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Cardinal Love

1/18/2019

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Little bird upon the tree
Looking in the window
Grandmother Great was resting
Her birthday at 100

You've waited patiently my friend
The signal to Grandmother
A cardinal seen in her path
She said meant she'd see her lover

This saying from a former day
Of the early 1900’s
Bringing comfort to a family still
In the passing of Grandmother

God knows our hearts and what we need
He is so very kind
To give us hope in a simple way
Quieting our minds

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