I haven’t been writing much the last few months, simply because life has been busy….and the recent ice storm also brought with it even more challeges. I kinda laugh when I think about it now. I was all about being Carolyn Ingalls and “pioneering” on Sunday, but Tuesday came…..and I knew without a shadow of a doubt that God didn’t make me out of the same grit He made the pioneers out of. In fact, He didn’t make me for winter….at all!! If you know me, well, you know me.
I remember driving home from work one afternoon and looking at the trees. It was FREEZING cold and every branch was covered in ice…and then the sun would hit it….and it was like diamonds! Beautiful diamonds…the trees looked like they had been dusted with glitter. Beautiful. Simply beautiful.
I pulled over to get out and take pictures because I knew I may never see anything like it again, but regardless of how I took the picture, it never captured what I was actually seeing. I jumped back in the vehicle and started back driving and thought, “Gosh, I just wish I could get a picture that really shows what I am seeing.” That’s when it hit me….sometimes I have to experience something for myself in order to be able to really see and understand it.
Life is like that. It’s very easy to look at a situation or someone from the outside and see one thing, but it’s completely different being on the inside and actually experiencing it.
A perfect example (to me) is Jesus. There’s lots of people that claim to know Jesus. But there’s a difference in knowing Jesus and knowing ABOUT Jesus. If you truly know Jesus, you want others to see Him as you do…but the only way for them to see Him, as He truly is, is for them to experience Him…growing in a close relationship with Him. Just like being present and experiencing the amazing beauty in the sparkling ice trees from a couple weeks ago, no one can ever express in words or pictures how beautiful Jesus is…that’s something you must personally experience for yourself❤️