Same+Different=New Beauty

This was a perfect sunrise morning, I think it was this past Sunday morning actually. The sun peeking as it promises warmth and newness for the day. There was a pretty harsh frost on the grass and plants that morning as well.  This morning sunrise - spoke to the depths of my heart.

My heart feels as if there is a harsh frost on the top of it. Harshness, crispness, coldness, numbness - all describing how frost feels. Underneath though there is still life teeming. And as the sun travels further up into the sky - the rays spreads out over the frost and melts it - revealing the life and warmth and feeling underneath it all. I love the fog that happens as the sun hits that frost. So many layers to a sunrise on a cold November morning.

I am looking forward to the next step. These next steps seem to be going into a totally different direction than what I first anticipated. But I am leaning on my Shepherd. I am leaning into His heart. Learning to hear only His heartbeat for me. Not giving into the voices that swirl about my ears and head, trying to distract me from hearing His voice. He is my True North.

Finding joy and beauty in the little things and the little progresses along the way. Finding joy and purpose in each activity that I pursue. Whether it's learning to bake bread again or getting a new smaller tree to fit into our smaller house or having joy in decorating the house for Christmas again or filling my bird feeders and then watching those birds in all shapes and colors come to feed.

Same ornaments but on a different tree. =)  Learning that same and different together creates a whole new beauty. I'm learning to know me all over again. Maybe this next major step will be doing much the same but in a different environment.....more to come on that as it develops.