living outside the grey

As I work towards getting back into my routine I can’t help but to be consumed by thoughts from my trip to Uganda, causing me to have numerous questions in which I cannot figure out.   I can’t help but to ask WHY so many children and woman have been abandoned by the very ones who love them.   They go from a since of stability to nothing in a day, from someone holding and comforting them to the darkness of lonely nights. I ask why Lord, this just does not make since.   Does this have to happen and more importantly why do You allow these kind of things to take place?   Then I realize these are questions I will probably not know the answer to until I get in Heaven. But what I do know, God is right and just in everything and that is something I will not question.   His reasons are not for my understanding no matter how cruel I may deem them to be because He is the only one who knows the outcome of these events.   So, I trust in Him as I come to awareness that these people regardless of

Spring brings new growth, fresh smells, and many chores.   As the sun radiates throughout the house the drapes are drawn and windows open I set out to do spring cleaning.   This  regular ritual consists of loading the CD player with my favorite CD’s, gathering supplies, etc.   With music up, tools in hand my mission begins.   As I figure out a good starting point I thank the Lord for my many blessings through song. Then before I know it I am off and running, praising and glorifying His name as I move furniture, wash windows, and clean out closets.   Funny how quickly my list dwindles when I am singing and dancing before the Lord.   The tackling of the master closet has been the hardest task thus far.   For starters it took me five days only because it had not been cleaned out since October 2010 to be precise.    So, I really had no idea what was in there but what I did know it was stacked high and everything out of sight for others to see.   I knew this was not going to be easy