Blessings & Lessons

"All of the words in all of my life that could never explain it, never describe. All of my love, which is nothing to hide, so I lift up my hands and I worship...I worship YOU."

"By your grace you've come and let me talk to you. It's not that I'm worthy, I thank you Jesus for the love that you have shown." Kutless. All of The Words.

Some interesting things happened on my run today. First just let it be known that I DID run on Monday the 15th. I just didn't get around to posting it. I ran Otter Trail. I remember feeling a bit distant from God. Not because He moved, but because I did. I made the choice to turn and look back.

Today He reminded me of his glory in a big way.

I started out later than I wanted. Almost 7:30. The sun was already heating things up. I was planning on running to 2nd gate, but remembered what happened the last time I ran there in the heat. No thanks. I easily made the mental switch to run Westville. Lots of hills, but more shade. It turned out to be a fine choice.

I almost stopped on the crazy steep hill, but I managed to maintain a feeble pace. The entire way up I prayed, "Lord, help me." He did.
Going down hill I all but forgot Him and started thinking about my remodeling project. Soon I was going uphill again and begging for more help. Isn't that the way? When things are going great, we can easily forget the one who got us there. I realized this and prayed, "Father, forgive me."

A few steps down the road something happened that through off my stride. A large deer with long fuzzy antlers bounded across the road right in front of me. I turned my head to the right to peer down the driveway from which it came. Standing on the opposite side of a screen door, was a small grey dog, barking his little head off. I laughed as I though about how proud the dog must feel today. He's protecting his family from wild animals. If dogs have old war stories they tell their pups, this might become one of them.

When I returned back to my street, I did my usual cool down, but this time I closed my eyes. What I saw astounded me. A swirling vortex of tiny particles moving slowing across the screen of my vision. I watched intently as the red colored lint scene gave me a window into the universe. I held on to it as long as I could, until I started paying attention to the song filtering into my brain. See above verse.

The Holy Spirit was talking to me. He said, "I am enormous. You will not know my magnitude until you see the stars with your own eyes."