Today is just one of those days when I don't know what to write about. I read my devotionals and prayed for God to share an idea, an image, or a subject with me and I sit down and begin to type.
Yesterday I noticed there were no geese on the pond behind our yard. Usually they arrive shortly after sunrise and depart shortly before sunset. We have windows that overlook the pond and can often hear and see them fly in and out. Yesterday there was nothing. It was a cold 20 degrees and the wind was very brisk so I imagine the geese were hunkered down somewhere for the day. I wonder where? I often wonder why they don't go south. Did they know the south would get more snow than Iowa this year? Do the same birds winter here every year?
I wish the geese could talk and answer my questions. Not yet, anyway.
"But no one says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night, who teaches more to us than to the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the air?'" (Job 35:10-11 NIV).
Job was smart enough to know that God was there, even when He didn't get immediate answers to his pleas. Just like I'm confident that God is answering my prayers, though I may not realize it. God's plan is always perfect. It is greater than I can imagine. Even after I've written a blog and think no one will even bother to read it, I'm often surprised when someone says, out of the blue, it spoke to them. God works through me, using me to share a message that only I would share.
Writing a blog is humbling. I don't expect my blogs to be read or that they will make a difference in your life every time I write. But, sometimes I am so blessed to hear from a reader who gets a morsel of truth that will help them through their day, or make them smile, or notice a goose on the ponds of Ankeny.
This is the 460th blog I've written since I started writing twice a week in 2014. It is my prayer that somewhere along the line of these words I share, you will see Jesus' face. May you be blessed to know Him, too.
Thank you. I am blessed to have you read Gloria's Glimpses.
I assume there are others besides me that read your blog but perhaps don't comment. I often smile and think of you prayerfully considering your words as you let the Spirit work through you as you write. I am richly blessed to know you, my dear, dear friend.
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