So I finished "Hinds' feet on high places" today, though I want to read through it again.  I read a good portion at work and would get interrupted at the most awkward places when I would rather continue reading than talk to the customer, but that's my job....I feel that in some ways I missed very vital things this way...so round two here I come!
And next comes the book of Ruth, partly because the Shepherd in Hinds' feet quotes so much amazing scripture and quotes Ruth "Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you.  For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge.  Your people shall be my people and your God my God.  Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried.  May the Lord do so to me and more if anything but death parts me from you." Ruth 1:16-17
So in a way you were right in both respects.

In many ways today was a good day.  Even though I stayed up WAY too late last night reading and then could not fall asleep.  I just lay there watching the moonlight spill across my room.  It wasn't restless, though I knew that I should be asleep and that I would be tired today...but I was content.

Again today I had the realization that it is not a bad thing to be alone.  In someways, I wonder if the Lord is having me walk along the Sea of Loneliness right now.  Though Pride, Self-Pity, Bitterness and the others whose names I can't recall at the moment haven't been poking their heads out as much as they plagued Much-Afraid (at least I don't think they have.  They are a little sneakier in my life than they were in Much-Afraid's experience.)

So many things that she went through I can see myself struggling through, and I can only hope and pray that I will come through the fire as triumphantly as Much-Afraid and be renamed "Grace and Glory."

Driving home today was wonderful, I was listening to Jenifer Knapp's song, "Peace"
http://www.youtube.com/watch#!videos=qL5TOZYigts&v=NUt-_0pD1T4
(This was the best version of it I could find)

I was looking around me at rolling hills slightly misted in the distance.  This morning on my way to work the sun was rising.  I love the blue/lavender tints that the sky has just before the sun rises.  Then you throw in a dash of coral and fuchsia and the sky takes on golden lights as the sun continues to crest the horizon.  Even though it was dashed early, It was beautiful and peaceful...



Anyway, I am simply rambling now.  And partly why I mention you so much Pam is that I know you read it and in a way it's my conversation between you and I (since almost no one else reads my blog...)