(Heart palpitations – but then the breath slows because I know GOD IS IN CHARGE. It’s “only” $45,000 a year and that’s without room and board. If Engineering, Purdue of course… however she has a heart for Valparaiso University – our dearly departed friend’s family is there in town and we love that town. When she was just a wee tot – she brought home a library book to me on internal combustion engines – that’s MY GIRL. Discussing further, I reminded her my former employer has a very prominent and important industrial engine plant right next door to Purdue (not aircraft engines, though). She brought up Mechanical Engineering for the first time this morning – specifically aircraft engines – she has a propensity for flight. She has heart and mind for the law and to be a judge, but also is showing skills mechanically (much like her old Momma bear). The kiddo and I are out and about handling errands. I’ve passed your post forward – because it should be shared – far and wide.

You are a precious edifier and encourager, dear friend. Unending blessings to all precious souls in this never leafless Tree.īetsy speaks and HUGS commence. The corridors of your heart become filled with riches all because you endured.įuture generations will enjoy the shade and covering you paid for, oh tree that has stood through many winters.” You pass these tests by simply surviving, and then one day you wake up with a harvest of fruit and blessings. No perceived silence can separate you from God. Peace, my soul, even when the cross feels so heavy. Your season of trials causes your roots and steadiness to grow far deeper than you ever thought possible. You are that tree, and sometimes all we need to do is hold on tight to God when all else fails. Not the barren winter nor the leafless branches.

One’s job is simply to hold on tight until the spring season shines once again.įrom outward appearances, all signs indicate that the future looks grim and bleak, yet nothing is permanent. There are seasons in your life that are not meant to be easy.Ī tree weathering a dark cold night is not expecting to bear fruit to blossom then and there. Yesterday I found the following and had forgotten about it, until I saw this wonderful picture for which there are so many metaphors I couldn’t possibly count.

Yep country song 2015