Coastal Wednesday

 It's been a simple and productive day here on the coast.  From walking the dog to washing and vacuuming out the rig, it's just been a day of simple chores.  Laundry is being done.  Garbage is on the curb as is the recycling.  I cleaned up after the dog.  I blew the pine needles off the deck so I don't track them into the hot tub.  Most of the day's dishes are done.  As always, you'd find my bed made, floors swept, and thanks to the new thing I bought, the doggy drool spots on the wood floor are cleaned up.

Bucky drools.  Always has.  That's why I call him slurp sometimes.  It's who he is.  Lately, it's been worse.  There's a tool for that though.  I love that dog.  Cleaning up after him is just a labor of love.

I'm finding these days that my walk is getting like that, too.  More simplified.  I had my faith tested literally to the break point one day last week over a thing in my life.  I'm finding that it's easier these days to just abide in God.  I've seen lots of changes in the situation but it's not quite where I'd like it to be.  It's not where it was, either.  Sometimes, a simple look back can help you stay grounded in where you're going, especially when it doesn't look like what you thought it would.

I learned that lesson buying the house last year.  Hard to believe that's been a year, but today God reminded me of something else.  He's faithful.  I saw a promise God made to me a long time ago.  I shared it seven years ago today on Facebook and I know that the number 7 is a number of completeness.  God also reminded me today that He's through punishing me for the sin of disobedience.  Yes, punished.  He withheld something from me because I disobeyed Him over it.  I had a second chance to prove I wouldn't do it again and that didn't quite go well either.  But in the ensuing time, God has done some remarkable stuff in my life.

Sometimes the simplest things God asks us to do, like nothing, or waiting, or just abiding in Him turn out to be some of the hardest.  Believing is sometimes also hard, but without faith, it's impossible to please God.  I read that someplace, like Hebrews 11:6.  I'm kinda camped out in Hebrews 3 &4 this week.  Not really waiting on God but waiting for something He spoke into my life to come to pass.  It's kind of like waiting on something to come in the mail.  You bought it.  You know it's coming.  You just might not know the exact day.  The thing is, though, that after the test, I seem to be resting more in the what than the when.  I still want to know the when, but I know God spoke it so it will come to pass.

In the mean time, life is pretty good here in Oregon.  Still waiting for license plates for the Toyota.  Going on six months for that, but other than that, things seem to be slowly, but surely, falling into place.