Thoughts on a Friday.

This week has been a real mixed bag. There have been some good times and some pretty pants times too. I guess you can really know you're in the right place when stuff starts to happen that makes you feel under attack. It was a bit like that this week. Suddenly the honeymoon period was over and I started living in the day to day again.

Don't get me wrong, I loved the honeymoon period, but I'm equally glad it's over. You see things look different in a honeymoon period, everything is slightly glittery and hazy and beautiful. Things don't look the way they look in reality. Through a few different situations this week I left the hazy beautiful smoke screen behind and started to see things as they are.

My response? Bring it on! God has a work for me to do and I'm totally up for it. I faltered a bit this week, I got a bit discouraged and grumpy and annoyed and then I spent some time with Jesus, and everything changed. He just reminded me that I'm safe with Him, I don't have to strive and stress, I don't have to make things better or try and fix things, my first and foremost responsibility is my relationship with Him. Really, that's all I need to worry about because everything else will come from the overflow of that.

I was thinking about my week today as I drove home, I drove past a spectacular tree in blossom and God's total and utter goodness just hit me. If God cares enough to make that tree look so intrinsically beautiful for the few weeks that it is in blossom, how much more does He care about me? How much more is He working out the intricate detail of my life, and working all things together for good?

So at the end of a mixed bag week I'm left once again in total awe of an amazing God who truly does hold all things together, know me inside and out and love me unconditionally.

Isn't that just mind blowing?!