Caves

I was thinking today that our journey is sort of like exploring a cave... You step inside and it is very dark, yet you know there are lots of cool things inside. Yucky stuff too, and you have to be careful. You need to keep looking up, and forward. We sort of got lost inside the first cave and wandered around and ended up back where we already were (yep, something in our home study expired because MD was taking too long...). But I can see us a bit of a bright spot up ahead! It is just a crack in the top, enough to let in the Light and illuminate our path a bit more. Allowing us to see beauty, just a glimpse of what is coming. There is a series of tunnels up ahead and we have to pick one to start through, and hope we come out in the right place, and not back where we started again. Just keep following the light, the way out is there...

We know that the "end" doesn't come when our children are placed in our arms, but it will be a new beginning and we will be out of this set of caves and tunnels and caverns, and out in a big wide open field. It will seem HUGE, and often full of prickly bushes, but in the midst of the prickly bushes will be much fruit! Looking forward to that day, but until then we will focus on moving slowly and steadily through the cave.

Great song in church today: (Matt Redman) Appropriate for my thoughts today!



Even though I walk through the valley
Of the shadow of death
Your perfect love is casting out fear

And even when I'm caught in the middle
Of the storms of this life
I won't turn back, I know You are near

And I will fear no evil
For my God is with me
And if my God is with me
Whom then shall I fear?
Whom then shall I fear?

Oh no, You never let go
Through the calm and through the storm
Oh no, You never let go
In every high and every low
Oh no, You never let go
Lord, You never let go of me

And I can see a light that is coming
For the heart that holds on
A glorious light beyond all compare

And there will be an end to these troubles
But until that day comes
We'll live to know You here on the earth
Still I will praise You, still I will praise You