We Will Rise!

I check my calendar and realize that we are well into November and I have had no inspiring thoughts for my monthly blog post. I want to stop writing about grief but cannot seem to move beyond it, especially after watching the American election results!

I feel like the wolf in this November page of my calendar!

Then I get an email from my daughter. She sends me an article by Diana Butler entitled Midnight in America. I begin to read it and come to the words: 

It's okay to need to catch your breath after the wind has been knocked out of it. It will take a bit. But we will rise.

 

So I move slowly into my day. I see the maple tree outside my window has shed a lot of leaves but there are still more clinging to its branches than on most trees. While eating my breakfast I watch the sparrows and the chickadees at the birdfeeder. I just filled it yesterday and spread the rest of the seeds onto the round table  on the deck. Those are all gone and I notice a couple of birds hopping onto the table searching for them, so I go out and scatter some more seeds onto the table, and rake up the leaves that are slowly filling the deck. The sparrows remind me of the song His Eye is on the Sparrow and I know He Watches Me. I listen to it and am reminded that God is watching and providing for me the way I watch and feed the sparrows. 

The words above come from a book I just discovered in my book shelf. It is a beautiful book by Linda Watson, and it is signed by the author. I have no memory of attending this book signing or meeting the author. But there it is, a gift to me when I need some inspiration!

I leave you with another quote from the book  above. It could have been written by the Old Testament Psalmist, King David. I was surprised and delighted when I read the name of the author!