Good morning, world. Things are looking pretty good from the front porch of my farm in Virginia today. The temperature has been mild over the last few days, and the snow is almost gone forever…or at least it looks that way on the surface. It’s fascinating when you think about it – God forms the ice and snow in the heavens, and He releases them in His Good Time to fall wherever He wants them to fall. Before you know it, the temperatures rise, and the ice and snow melt, and the moisture finds its way into the earth, where the trees drink it up, and eventually it will condense and evaporate only to be returned back into the atmosphere. Only God could Design an intricate water “recycling” Plan like that, that’s for sure. Just when you think the snow is melted and it will never come this way again, we eventually breathe it in. Wow. When you look at it that way, you realize that each new day has enough pleasure and “trouble of its own”. A little snow, a little fog, a little sunshine, and a little pink reflection from the sun bouncing off the clouds this morning, and it’s obvious that this day has a little bit of everything. No doubt this day will overflow with “new” as long as we’re willing to face the day with a Heart of Gratitude and the curiosity of a child! Isn’t that just the way it SHOULD be in our Journey of Faith?

The older I get, the more intrigued I am by how so many people fixate on the weather, as if knowing what the weathermen predict is enough to hang their hat on. Men come close to nailing the forecast through modern technology, that’s for sure, BUT no man can actually (or adequately) predict the Hand of God. Plenty of people are giving credit (or blame) for the extreme weather based upon their vast knowledge of “cloud seeding,” but no man nor any amount of “seeding” the clouds can change the Plans of God, no matter how hard they try. If God wants it to snow or rain, it will. If God wants there to be LOTS of either one, there will be. If God wants to hold back and create a drought for a season, He will. If God wants a hurricane to form that has the potential to obliterate an entire city, He will. Why in the world would I lose one ounce of sleep worrying about something no man can control? He’s not looking for accurate predictions from those He Created, HE’S LOOKING FOR THOSE HE CREATED TO TRUST HIM, even though we don’t Know what His next move is. That’s what Faith looks like – a surrender to His Will, even if we don’t understand it, and complete trust in Him through the storms. The icing on the Spiritual Cake is to PRAISE HIM through it all.

This day will have a little bit of everything going on. Instead of trying to figure out when the rain will fall or questioning Him about the stinky state of the World I choose to Trust Him AND I WILL PRAISE HIM for Who He is no matter what.

How about you?,

Job 38:4-11 “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements? Surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? To what were its foundations fastened? Or who laid its cornerstone, When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy? “Or who shut in the sea with doors, When it burst forth and issued from the womb; When I made the clouds its garment, And thick darkness its swaddling band; When I fixed My limit for it, And set bars and doors; When I said, ‘This far you may come, but no farther, And here your proud waves must stop!’