May YOU know HIM

Peace...the kind that surpasses all understanding...

I'm supposed to be creating my unit on snowy owls but I'm going to take this moment to rest and reflect and remember...(plus my research is done--it's all just fun now, putting together the activities!).

i write about peace because it's what i can see on my face in the picture i toook just a few minutes ago for my fb profile (it had been six months since the picture changed--i don't look the same, haha!) anyway, that peace--it's just marched inside, grabbed hold of my insides and won't ever let go again. it's a little like joy in that regard. not that i won't have moments of panic--those just happen--but that those moments can never overthrow me. i trust in and fear the Lord, therefore my heart stands firm. you can find that in the psalms.

i just want to be grateful for a few minutes. i have been through the rough things in life--not the roughest, but still rough--and i haven't been overthrown--i've actually been victorious. like what my pastor said when he called me to the front to pray over me last Sunday: i've been through the fire, but it hasn't destroyed, just refined. there's an anointing on me for whatever the heck is to come! haha and i honestly have no clue what that means but the Lord is speaking "mighty Warrior" into all those places where the enemy has whispered "weak"--and I hear that shout! ooh...the goodness of God in my life, how He has brought me through.

Peace--the battle hasn't ended yet--in fact, i think it's just ramping up with me getting ready to be thrown out into all that He has for me--but i will never be shaken now. I will never be dismayed, let go of, abandoned, called hopeless--it's all before me now, a future bright with hope and literally unspeakable. it's the things that have to be lived to be known--that's what's before me. it sounds otherworldly and super vague and...there are no words, but i am excited for what is to come, whatever it may bring. just join with me in thanking Him, for making us--little messes with big hearts who need His love--and He's willing to share Himself, all of Himself (He did it through Jesus on the cross) because He knew we needed him and the only way for us to be made complete was to be found in Him, find life through Him. Because Jesus didn't stay on the Cross--that's only half the story and the icky half at best--He came back to life! And brings us life! So that we are no longer stuck in all that held us down--but we can find Peace...

Peace...the kind that surpasses all understanding...

May YOU know HIM.