Living
in a hot climate, one becomes accustomed to seeking out areas of cool
shade. Retreat from the heat of the sun can be necessary on hot days.
I learned this when I lived in southern California...”hot and dry”
took on a whole new definition to this girl who was accustomed to the
Pacific Northwest! Likewise, retreat from the pressures of day-to-day
life can also require that we back up and find a cool spot to
re-group and collect our peace and strength.
Trials
come in all shapes and sizes, from minor irritations that try our
patience, to devastating interruptions that threaten the
continuation of our lives as we know them. Whether great or small,
sorrow and struggle will come to all of us and will inevitably
change us. There can be no light without darkness, no recognition of
peace if there has never been war, and no healing so vastly
appreciated as when it comes at the end of a season of great pain.
Even the scorching sun is partly responsible for the refreshment of
cool shade, as the shade could not exist were it not for the hot sun
pushing us to find a cool place. The heat itself produces our refuge.
Everyone
knows the age-old question, "Which came first, the chicken or
the egg?". My answer has always been that the chicken came first
because the Bible says that God created all the animals...not the
embryonic beginnings of the animals that may or may not develop into
animals. Then he told them to be fruitful and multiply...hence, the
eggs. Similarly, without the sun existing first, there would be no
need for nor opportunity for shade. Without challenges and trials,
there would be no need for nor opportunity for resolution and peace.
The question then, is not which came first. The question really is
whether or not we are willing to embrace the existence of the
one in order to experience the blessing of the other. We might even
ask if we have such a choice because rarely are we in control of all
of the circumstances that befall us. The sun rises every morning with
absolutely no input from us, and challenges will come our way just
as certainly as that sunrise.
In
the meantime, we find ourselves chasing the shade.
"And
there will be a tabernacle for shade in the daytime from the heat,
for a place of refuge, and for a shelter from storm and rain."
~Isaiah 4:6
light, shade, and tracy good enough. yuuck. Lorrie, i wish you improvede strength and recovery. i offered to foster your cats until you got home from the hospital. then was told they had escaped from a tracy's house9N(WHO WAS WATCHING THEM FOR LORRIE)when she was cleaning to move. next, the animal shelter stated they had them, but they were in 2 separate facilities, Lorrie or tracy said i could go and pick them up. i called rhe shelter and they too said i was authorised by Lorrie (owner). however, i asked about shelter fees and they were between two and three hundered dollars and were not paid. Of course, tracy did notMention that to me when she suggested i better hurry over there or the mother cat was being adopted. what a manipulator...she lied to Lorrie that the cats were lostmissing because they escaped her house when she was cleaning to move . the shelterhem out with Lorie's permissionout..big lie...it ws my understanding they were now out in thestreet and animal control found them and took them into the 2 shelters. as i hve been in touch with the shelter...who have been very cooperative in letting me take tHEM WITH THE OWNER;S PERMISSION, BUT SHE HAD NOT PAID THE THRE HUNDRED DOLLAR FEE. NEXT, THE SHELTER INFORMED ME THAT IT WAS TRACY GOODENOUGH?/ WHO BROUGHT THE CCATS INTO THE SHELTER AND LEFT THEM THERE..SHE POSTED SOMEWHERE ON NETDOOR SEAIDE THAT THEY WERE STUBBORN LITTLE CATS.SHE SAID THE OWNER DID NOT WANT THEN ANTNIRE ABD SGE WAS HYST DRIOUBG TGEN IFF AT THE OWNER'S REQUEST. ALL LIES ,,LORRIE I HOPE TTIY SEE BECAUSE TRACY HAS LIED TO YOU AND ENDANGERED THE CATS. THERE IS A THREE HUNDRED DOLLAR BOARDING FEE WHICH GROWS DAILY AND THE CATS WILL NOT BE RELEASED UNTIL IT IS PAID FIRST, SUSAN ROMERSA
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