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If you care to share, when was your most recent one of those moments... that moment when you're beautifully reminded of the beauty beyond the tribulations that come up against our faith on the daily.
Yesterday, after a pretty tough last couple weeks, and a whole lot of uncertainty as far as the job— and for that special spice flavoring, an endangered elderly person has been brought into our lives, and we're helping as we are able as we get familiar with the resources available in the system of things for such ones among our populace. We're praying hard over this one. It's pretty bad, but the available options are coming into focus. Plenty and more.
Did I mention it being an especially tough last couple of weeks?
The sort of stuff where you just throw your hands up, completely weighed down with the anxieties of life, and not a clue except that we got through today, and today will just have to be enough. Someone who was both insightful and wise once noted that tomorrow will have its own troubles (anyhow).
I'll take my Yep to go, please.
I will never take any measure of credit in us getting through these days of late, or ever, really and that's the fact. I can't even tell you how Jehovah is doing it, but here I sit, I am done with the demands of the day and now can commit to my home and family for a few hours before tomorrow dawns on me. (see what I did there?
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Anyhow, all that's been going on and yesterday, here I am, pretty much whimpering beneath Life of late at this point, and I'm driving up my street toward home and there they were. I was surprised to see them this early into dusk; it was a first, in fact. Usually they come through around 4-4:30am.
But it's what I needed. When I needed it.
The grace, the gentleness. The speed at which they move, I could go on.
Anyhow, I appreciated getting to see them from down the street, but was secretly hoping they wouldn't flee as I both approached AND still had to back the car in!
Two ran off behind our dying red barn; the one just moved over into the yard more but watched me pretty closely. Still, I was able to take care of business getting the car backed in, moving slow.
The brave one waited a few moments (I didn't get out of the car, are you kidding?!) and then made the way back to what we put in the driveway for whomever (squirrels, crows, pigeons, chipmunks, etc), and here came prancing the other two, and this moment... one of those moments, lingered for a little while longer as they finished things off, and one by one pranced and then leaped off between the barn and our neighbor's house and toward the railroad.
Such elegance. Such harmony and beauty as they each did their part in covering their 360 while chomping away on what Jehovah had provided them by moving Deb and me to be the softies we are when it comes to animals.
It was a scene that unfolded to become what I needed, so full of peace, a reprieve from Life. Evidence that Jehovah is there, even when it's feeling like He isn't.
I said a thankful prayer to our Father in the Heavens— but not before I sorted out how to snap some photos to capture this moment to share with Deb.
I should've grabbed the drive-cam's memory card, but hindsight and all that.
Anyhoo, I'd enjoy reading about your most recent moment!
Submitted for perusal and consideration,
—Timothy,
a believer.
Yesterday, after a pretty tough last couple weeks, and a whole lot of uncertainty as far as the job— and for that special spice flavoring, an endangered elderly person has been brought into our lives, and we're helping as we are able as we get familiar with the resources available in the system of things for such ones among our populace. We're praying hard over this one. It's pretty bad, but the available options are coming into focus. Plenty and more.
Did I mention it being an especially tough last couple of weeks?
The sort of stuff where you just throw your hands up, completely weighed down with the anxieties of life, and not a clue except that we got through today, and today will just have to be enough. Someone who was both insightful and wise once noted that tomorrow will have its own troubles (anyhow).
I'll take my Yep to go, please.
I will never take any measure of credit in us getting through these days of late, or ever, really and that's the fact. I can't even tell you how Jehovah is doing it, but here I sit, I am done with the demands of the day and now can commit to my home and family for a few hours before tomorrow dawns on me. (see what I did there?
)Anyhow, all that's been going on and yesterday, here I am, pretty much whimpering beneath Life of late at this point, and I'm driving up my street toward home and there they were. I was surprised to see them this early into dusk; it was a first, in fact. Usually they come through around 4-4:30am.
But it's what I needed. When I needed it.
The grace, the gentleness. The speed at which they move, I could go on.
Anyhow, I appreciated getting to see them from down the street, but was secretly hoping they wouldn't flee as I both approached AND still had to back the car in!
Two ran off behind our dying red barn; the one just moved over into the yard more but watched me pretty closely. Still, I was able to take care of business getting the car backed in, moving slow.
The brave one waited a few moments (I didn't get out of the car, are you kidding?!) and then made the way back to what we put in the driveway for whomever (squirrels, crows, pigeons, chipmunks, etc), and here came prancing the other two, and this moment... one of those moments, lingered for a little while longer as they finished things off, and one by one pranced and then leaped off between the barn and our neighbor's house and toward the railroad.
Such elegance. Such harmony and beauty as they each did their part in covering their 360 while chomping away on what Jehovah had provided them by moving Deb and me to be the softies we are when it comes to animals.
It was a scene that unfolded to become what I needed, so full of peace, a reprieve from Life. Evidence that Jehovah is there, even when it's feeling like He isn't.
I said a thankful prayer to our Father in the Heavens— but not before I sorted out how to snap some photos to capture this moment to share with Deb.
I should've grabbed the drive-cam's memory card, but hindsight and all that.
Anyhoo, I'd enjoy reading about your most recent moment!
Submitted for perusal and consideration,
—Timothy,
a believer.
We've got sooooo much to look forward to that I really struggle to understand those who say they don't want what Jehovah is offering us because it'll be "boring" 
There's also a fair few birds of prey around us and last summer, a young kestrel came into our garden, right near our back door, trying to get a mouse. It's face was a picture when it saw us staring at him 2 foot away! And what a lovely thing to say about your wife 
glad your daughter's doing good now.. it'll be lovely once you're all back together 
Hopefully she'll wake up pretty quick now. A worldly friend of mine whose fleshly brother was an elder in another congregation till he stepped down once the divisions started over the injections, told me this afternoon, that he was on the door to door ministry with an elder today and they had a bit of a "to do" and the elder told him "The problem with you Mick is that you don't keep up with your vaccinations"!! Poor Mick, said to his sister "they must all be talking about me behind my back because how would that elder know I haven't had any injections if they don't talk about me?" I am sooooo glad I don't go to the hall. They're all mad!! 
And……it must be nice to have the sun shine in Spain. We have clouds and rain and one sunny day a year! 
Disculpame, estoy obtusa estos días.