Friday, April 5, 2013

I love spring.  It has been cool this week but nice to get out and get things done.  It has been a busy week.  I am bringing in the animals for family camp.  This is a picture of my friend Carol with the new sheep and lambs and a pygmy goat with two kids.  I'll pick up the alpacas on Monday.  I am trying to tame down the miniature donkeys for the kids.  I planted about a 100 flowers in the last two days. The barn is spotless.  I have to say everything is looking good.  I am tired and sore.  I wish I had a bathtub to soak in epsom salts.  It is Friday evening and I have put in a full week.

I woke up early this morning with the question on my mind "Where is your happy place?"  I have had many happy places in my life.  One was in a lounge chair in the backyard of a B&B in Napa Valley, being on the banks of the Nueces River with a warm breeze on my skin, riding my horse.  I have been blessed to feel peace for most of my life.  I am grateful for those moments where life stops and you have a picture of it in your head.  So many things trigger those happy places.  Smells, pictures, the temperature, a breeze.  I love spring in Texas.  It is my happy place.  I missed it so much when I was away all those years.  As I drove into Kerrville this week for our staff meeting I couldn't help but smile as I passed the thick blanket of bluebonnets along the road.  I remember stopping to take pictures with the boys when they were little.  I have seen so many turkeys.  They are showing off for the hens.  When I moved away I didn't miss these moments but now that I am back it makes my heart happy.  It reminds me of the verse that I got about 2 years ago in Isaiah 54 where He said "I will call you back."  God wants us to be happy and he will bring you to your own personal happy place.  Seek Him and keep your heart and eyes open for that moment.  I wish you many happy places where your heart fills full and your spirit soars.

Isaiah 54: 4 - 6
"Do not be afraid; you will not be put to shame.
Do not fear disgrace; you will not be humiliated.
You will forget the shame of your youth
and remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.
For your make is your husband-
the Lord Almighty is his name-
the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer;
he is called the God of all the earth.
The Lord will call you back
as if you were a wife deserted and distressed in spirit-
a wife who married young,
only to be rejected," says your God.
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