Faithful Provider

Last Monday night I received a call informing me that I was not chosen for a position I had strongly desired. Curiously, an amazing series of events had occurred throughout the application and selection process that naturally might have caused me to expect an equally amazing outcome. Had this disappointing end occurred six months earlier, I would secretly have suspected it as God Leading Me On With False Hopes or Me Reading Into Circumstances.

However, God, who daily leads me along the path of life, continues His good work of decreasing the distance between my mind, full of knowledge about Him, and my heart, full of desperate need of Him, and because God has during these months been nursing this merging process with massive servings of His Word, my spiritual eye sight is improving. The result is that I see in those amazing series of events an Almighty God displaying to my anemic heart the capability of His loving power for me, a power that He will again display with a thrilling outcome when the time is right.

Pray for me that I continue to come for nourishment to the breast of my loving, faithful provider.

You make known to me the path of life;

in your presence there is fullness of joy;

at your right hand are pleasures forevermore.

Psalm 16:11

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14. A restful diversion for my busy mind: the physical exertion of tracking animals in the snow-packed woods, knowing my Father feeds them.
— Sylvan Soliloquy (@SylvanSoliloquy) February 17, 2013

Faith Is a Vulnerable Journey

Over the past six months of unemployment, my faith in God has grown deeper and richer, as I have experienced His goodness and greatness on my behalf. This morning, after a dear friend told me that her faith is encouraged by the stories I tell her of my journey (as is mine in hearing hers). 

This is a vulnerable journey. I don't know the lands and cities through which it will lead or the events and circumstances to come along the way, nor do I know where or when it will end; however, I do know the purpose of the journey: my multi-faceted joy in becoming more like Jesus, my Savior; the encouragement of our faith; and the resulting exaltation of the magnificence of our good, all-powerful, sovereign God.


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Winter Refreshment

Today, I spent two and a half hours tracking deer, fox, squirrel, snow shoers, cross-country skiers, and another hiker; I also wished upon a stream.

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9. She circled the frozen pond in silence again, sorting her thoughts, focused, the cold air nibbling unnoticed on her fingertips and nose.
— Sylvan Soliloquy (@SylvanSoliloquy) February 7, 2013