making memories

We were walking the dog one late evening which was not the norm.
The familiar trail looked very different in the covering of the night
and appeared somewhat magical.

As we approached our favorite bend where the street lamp stood,
i exclaimed, "Look, this is like the picture where Lucy first enter Narnia!"
My sixteen year old said, "Mom, that was exactly what i was thinking!"

so we took some pictures for our own Narnia moment
with my sixteen year old being the photographer and me as Lucy.
Thank you Son for going along with a Mom that was not so normal,
and thank you too for the other two boys (and my dog)
for putting up with yet another of my memory making attempts.

退一步 海濶天空

There was this Chinese saying: take a step backward, the sea is wide and the sky is vast.

I felt that I was backed up to a corner, so I told God,
" I can't step backward because I am in a corner."
He said, "Step forward then, I will lead you to an open spacious place."*

God never cease to amaze me with His interventions in my life.
During my quiet time, I knew right away what He wanted me to do;
i took a hard look into my heart and confessed my resentment, bitterness, unforgiving, fear of rejection to Him.
I thank God for His perfect timing and His dealing with me.
He is merciful and loving towards who he had made.

*Psalm 18:19:He brought me out into a spacious place;
he rescued me because he delighted in me.

where are you?

When God asks, "Where are you?” it means He's coming after you.
Have you ever felt like that?
Lately, I felt like He had backed me into a corner, looked hard into my eyes....
At time it's really annoying,
because He is so "in your face ".
Why can't He leaves me alone?
But thank God too, for He will not leaves us to ourselves or where we want to be.
(At time I can stay at the corner just as well, refusing to move an inch.)
What it is that I’m holding onto stubbornly refusing to let go?
I do not know, or I do not want to know.
Sometime, it is very painful if you have to take a hard look at yourself.