GOD Gives and GOD Takes away
Job 1:21b The LORD gave and The LORD has taken away. Blessed Be the name of The LORD.
I think, “God doesn’t take, He gives and makes broken things whole, as He is doing in me.”
In life stuff happens. We have to deal with what is in front of us, but IN JESUS we are able to deal with life differently. We have a HOPE to KNOW that in the end that JESUS WON! We are walking it out but we know this is not all there is. Also we have the Joy of The LORD in us giving us an inner Hope to carry us through the stuff of life.
Over time I start realizing that sometimes God needs to take something we are holding on to, to do a good work in us.
The need to take the tree down breaks my heart. It would not be good for the a branch to fall on a person or our house but I love our tree. My husband decides to buy a wood insert to replace the gas fireplace that we have never used, a blessing? YES! A great Blessing!
Our neighbor takes the tree down int the Spring of 2014 and he allows me to sort through the wood to keep what I want and throw what is too small for burning. Lifting the wood is great for building muscle so I choose one log to lift for arm muscles and extra weight while doing lunges! It also does this thing when I lift it behind my head, it pulls me upright and settles my spine somehow. This is a scoliosis thing with a rod.
I am in awe of what I am able to do.
Two years earlier, God gave me the miracle of 5 brand new vertebrae and nerves connecting the muscles giving me the ability to gain muscle and start running. For perspective I was ready to get a cane to help me walk because I could no longer hold my body upright, But God moved.
I am sitting on the steps looking at the work, but my body isn’t ready to respond. It frustrates me that my body won’t function until 4:00 P.M.!
But God reminds me,
“Be Thankful and Patient with your body.” (growing strength and endurance isn’t like the instant miracle of the new bone it is a much slower process.)”
It is easy to become greedy to want more than I am able to do at this time. When remembering just a few years ago my body could only do one hour of work for the day and maybe the week. But now I am able to work five hours lifting logs! One thing I tried is five hour energy and it did help me to do more for five hours.
Can you tell how much love there is for the tree?
Do you like what the tree has done to my beautiful flowerbed? There are tulips under the logs!
I am learning how to adjust things on my blog! Finally the pictures look as expected! Loosing more fear of computers and the blog! They look better!
If you look closely there are some tulips blooming under the tree limbs.
We loved the tree so much we put the trunk in our back yard and I do climb on it often! It brings joy even laying sideways in the back yard. Maybe I will have a good picture of that next time.
I learn to plant many different kind of flowers, no more shade plants!
God is teaching me, He is covering me even when I am in the wide open spaces, especially if I feel naked out in the open.
The strength gained by lifting logs has given me the ability to keep the flowerbed and yard in order, even adding a few more flowerbeds. I am in awe of what I am able to do!
My running grows to five miles a day and ten miles once and a while. I buy my skinniest pair of jeans a size six!
Wow, I am able to keep going for 10 days without my body shutting down and needing a day of rest. I am in Awe of What God is doing in me!
THEN MOM DIES!