Comfy

Our family had a blessing! We were staying in a beautiful cabin in the Smokies that smelled of pine and cedar. When we arrived, “mom” immediately started in on supper — as everyone was already hungry. The picnic table soon served as our gathering place as we enjoyed each others company.

Then, the two youngest members noticed her. A bird, sitting on her nest, in the rafters of her porch. I squinted my eyes and tried to see . . . But I couldn’t make out the details like they could. They could even see the babies.

Soon everyone was finished and on to other events of the evening . . . Everyone except mom and her youngest son. He was looking up at the nest.

“There’s babies,” he was telling me. Then he spread out his arm to show me how the mother was covering her little ones. “She’s doing that so they’ll be all comfy.” My heart smiled at his declaration. Makin ‘em comfy!

It is only the Presence of God that can make us “comfy” even when life turns the nest upside down. “Nest shaking” is all a part of His plan.

It keeps the path to the secret place well worn — and our security remaining where it needs to be — IN HIM!

The comfort of the “nest” is wonderful, but the lessons learned when the nest is “toppled over” have a value beyond the present, and we find a sweeter rest, more blessed peace — near to the heart of God.

He never leaves us — even through seasons of change. His Holy Spirit is our truest comfort and guide — His love is our largest resting place —and, His Presence the light of EVERY day!

Janene A. Dubbeld/FGG

“Hiding in Thee, Hiding in Thee,

Thou blest Rock of Ages,

I’m hiding in Thee.”

                                      Cushing/Sankey

“O, God. Give me a steady heart to trust your plan, even when it “shakes up the nest.” Use each circumstance of life to draw me closer to You. Teach me of Your way. Show to me Your power. Live in me and through me always. In Jesus name, Amen.”

Take it with You

“Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God: How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor? Who has ever given to God that God should repay him? But from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.”

Romans 11:33-36 NIV