New Life

This morning I went over to the paddock to check on the cows and found...

A calf about 8 to 12 hours old!



 

Even though I've seen a lot of newborn animals, there's something special about each new life.

 

Beautiful Clouds

What contrast. The blue and the bright white on the clouds. The pain and heartache of life and the joy and peace of walking with the Lord through it all. Sometimes life rains when it's inconvenient, when we'd really rather have sunshine. But God is there. And it really is beautiful, the pain and the heartache.

Because hope is real.

And because there are such things as happy endings.

 

 

This crazy hope is what keeps me going

Even though I really think that I cannot go on any longer

When I'm discouraged and my hand is slipping,

That's when I cry for peace through the tears and I feel stronger.

Why blue skies alone? Why not the clouds I ask?

Why not the peace with the tears, or the joy with the pain?

Only then will we know what our Lord went through,

And only then the deepest relationship with God we gain.