MY FAVORITE THINGS

I love God and I enjoy being in His Presence.  I come to the garden alone, and He walks with me and talks with me, and tells me I am His own.  I enjoy walking in the cool of the day with Him or sitting on the bank of a river, stream, lake, or pond, or by the ocean.  It is just so simple and pure.  I enjoy following Jesus as we walk along His Way, His path.  I enjoy learning from Him; how He encounters others along the way; always compassionate, always fully present to them; healing them, dining with them, enjoying their presence.  In that warmth of love and acceptance many are transformed.  I love being in and watching nature as it speaks to me of the things about God; His sense of beauty and order, and His constant and faithful care of His creation.

I love reading and studying the Bible.  It is the Story of God and reveals how much He loves all that He has created, even when they don’t love Him in return.  It amazes me how loving and faithful He is, constantly seeking those who are lost.  It humbles me to see how forgiving, how compassionate, and how truly He cares about us as people.

It makes me sad when people don’t see that.  It seems so simple to me.  It started out that way with me; simply His love and His Presence.  He walked with me through all my themes and schemes, all my wandering off the path, all my selfish and bad choices.  I have come to a place of simple and sincere satisfaction.  I don’t need or want the things that used to take me off the path and out of the way.  Been there, done that, over it!

Now my long ago dream of sitting in a rocking chair on a porch of a cabin out in the woods, reading and writing insights from Scriptures and simply being in God’s Presence is all I want to do.  “One thing have I desired of the Lord…”  To be with Him where He is staying.  That is all I am seeking.