Simple Things in Life...

Hey Y'all,

(This one is going to be deep, so get ready for the dive!)

HANDS: Yesterday I received my birthday gift from my parents in the mail. As I walked into the elevator, I ran my fingers over my mother's handwriting. I missed her hands. I remember her hands holding me when I was sick, holding me when my eyes couldn't cry another tear, her hands driving me to school every morning in high school. Her hands holding me tight as she said goodbye when I moved to Denton and her hands the last time I hugged her goodbye before moving to New York. Her hands, so simple, yet so very much cherished.

LOVE: I sit and prayed for my aunt last night and thought about the last time I was home with her. Her body so frail, but her heart and spirit so strong. I remember distinctly one conversation I had with her and my uncle. She travels to the hospital every two weeks and they are in that hospital room for two weeks. I remember sitting there and tell them how much I know they love being home. They look at each other and say "We can't wait to be home so we can sleep in the same bed together." To go two weeks laying side by side while she is in the hospital bed and he lies in the fold out chair, the one thing they long for is to be able to be by each others side. I prayed then and now that God would bring me a man that I would love like that.  Their love, so simple, yet so divine and beautiful.


BOOK: On Sunday after church I have made it my routine to find a book to read at the B&N in Union Square. I have heard great things about this book, "Is Heaven for Real," and have been wanting to read it. I picked it up, but then saw another book that was perfect for the time in my life right now "Resolution for Women." So I checked out and knew that night that it was the book I was meant to purchase. BUT, God had other plans. Remember I recieved a gift from my parents yesterday, within this box was the book "Is Heaven for Real." One book, so simple, yet so timely placed. 


Hands, Love, and a Book; all these together would mean nothing to one other person, but to me, they will be remembered forever. 

I have been struggling recently on understanding God's timing and the reason's for certain things He has called me into. As I opened that present and was given these things that I knew my mother so intricately picked out for my joy, I was overwhelmed. I was loved, adored, prayed for, and specifically given this gift for my 23rd birthday.  It was one of the best gifts I have even been given.


I thank God today for my mother's hands, for the memories I have been given with her and with my aunt and uncle. I thank God for the reminder of a child-like faith in this book and that this is not my eternal destination. No matter what struggles or misunderstandings I am going through I know the simple truth that Heaven is waiting for me and so is my loving and beautiful Jehovah Jireh. 


So today, as you read about my life, may you reflect on your own! 


Blessings and simplicity to you!