T's

I took a little time by the river today to think. I picked up a couple ticks. Someone had left good tackle there. After my thoughts came together (sometime later this evening, yes, I'm a slow thinker) what was going through my head started to shake down into clarity.

It was on this date last year that we were blessed with the reminder that God cares for His own and promises to reward in His time. Within days we learned of my father-in-law's cancer. The year that followed presented faith-stressing challenges and unexpected blessings heretofore unexperienced by my immediate family. Many life-ties have loosened, but I believe we are stronger and our commitments now deeper due to our growth through the year. Can we really know God without experiencing Him? Tests that bring us to the end of ourselves and burn away the temporal and insignificant are precious, tailored gifts from a loving God who is unresting and unhasting, unwanting and unwasting.