2016 Moving Forward

Changing Sky

Images create a visual for the mind to focus in on and add a deeper dimension to thoughts and words. My drought-ridden state is being showered with rain and heavy snowfall after four long years of intense, dry heat.

To say we are receiving an unmerited blessing isn’t enough. My heart is grateful that I am enjoying cozy, crackling fires contained in my home brick fireplace instead of news that blazes are burning from the northern forest of California to the southern hills.

Mercy and grace.

Life and death.

This new year is bringing change, renewal, a reviving spirit, and hope.

My heart races with the passing clouds in anticipation for what is yet to come.  I have choices to make about the direction I desire to go. Kathy the novelist is writing/traveling from the Cornish coast of England to the capital city of Sacramento, California. Kathy the photographer is shooting photo essays in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and Amador county, my own backyard. Kathy the prayer warrior  continues to pray without ceasing with my prayer partner in Uganda, Africa, and fellow warriors that gather in my living room.

There is lush fresh growth springing up from the dewy earth where barren, parched hard pan soil previously lay ~ brown and lifeless.

Like a field of sprouting clover, this season offers rejuvenation.

Let the Son break through and renew the prayers of my heart, the words of my mouth, and my commitment to persevere.

My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

Song of Solomon 2:10