Last January

One evening, about a year ago, we had an ice storm. Do you remember that? Ice coated the branches, the wind slammed the ice into our siding and onto our roof, it was a loud night. And also kind of eery. I sat down on my bed that night and wrote. What came out on paper was a mixture of emotions from different sources of stress. I look back on what I wrote now and I see that God was there with me in writing it. He was preparing my heart for the tough year that we were just entering. I had no idea what was coming. The fear that I wrote of in that paragraph was over what we were experiencing then, the uncertainty of financial security and all that entails. But it also spoke of a generalized fear. A fear of uncertain times for us as believers. Maybe it's on the dramatic side, but you should have heard what I heard that night (we live in the woods friends)! And it was the beginning of the year, a very uncertain time for us as a family.



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