https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NeOyFxjkqKY O the beauty of this place you have brought me to. To sit in a shallow lake with mount Rainer to one side and mount at Helen’s on the other. I remember the destruction the day mt. St. Helens blew. I think I was around ten years old. The mischievous side of me had the whole school scouting the Michigan grass for ashes from the blast and tho I noticed the devastation and registered the loss of life then, I only fully registered it today. The land remembers what we forget and I think of the earth groaning for full redemption and I feel it resonate in my soul. I know these things today: God brings beauty from the ashes. Sometimes the well watered garden of your own heart is an oasis to one who walks without you, Father. The loving lessons you teach are long and sweet, and I treasure them. The tears I give to you are never in vain and always restorative. The love you shower me with is always perfect and amazes me in how inviting it is to some and how it bothers others. I’m most thankful you shield me from the one and open me to more of the other. I know today that I am loved and as we share these wonders and moments together I hope that those around me know how much I’m enjoying it all and how thankful I am for each sweet memory.

Posted by kat at 2022-08-01 16:26:15 UTC