Angel Wings

I read this today in My Streams in the Desert devotional and I thought it worth sharing.  Vanessa~

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George Matheson

“‘The road is too rough,’ I said;
‘It is uphill all the way;
No flowers, but thorns instead;
And the skies over head are grey.’
But One took my hand at the entrance dim,
And sweet is the road that I walk with Him.

“The cross is too great,’ I cried–
‘More than the back can bear,
So rough and heavy and wide,
And nobody by to care.’
And One stooped softly and touched my hand:
‘I know. I care. And I understand.’

“Then why do we fret and sigh;
Cross-bearers all we go:
But the road ends by-and-by
In the dearest place we know,
And every step in the journey we
May take in the Lord’s own company.”

Today is the 4^th anniversary of when I arrived in Ukraine!!! And what am I doing? Packing to move to another city and begin another journey. Four years ago I was arriving. Now I am in the process. BUT, I am moving HURRAH, HURRAH, HURRAH!!!! And I am excited with anticipation, but I am in the unpleasant part of moving right now (at least for me).

So when you are moving, what is the part that you dislike the most? The organizing of stuff to pack, the actual packing, the moving, the being surrounded by boxes in your current abode, the moving in, and/or the organizing once you move in? For me, I think the two things I dislike are the packing, and the being surrounded by boxes BEFORE I do the actual move. I feel when I am surrounded by all these boxes that I am living in a shell. I dislike living in a shell. I like my abode to feel homey a place where people feel at home away from home. Where they can come in, take their shoes off, and relax a little while. Right now, being surrounded by boxes I have that “living in a shell feeling”, and the “homey” is quite gone altogether. BUT, one thing I have been able to do during the organizing part of packing, is lighten my load (i.e. get rid of things). I somehow accumulated too many “things” in the four years of living here in Kyiv. That needs to change, but still be able to have my place have that homey feeling. I’ve whittled some things down, but the Lord has been speaking to me about whittling down more. (Maybe I should have been a turtle, they don’t have to worry about moving houses, having too many “things” or if their house has that homey feeling)! One thing I know, I am just moving to a different city and one not too far away either. If I were moving to another country, the majority of all these “things” would be gone. I would sell them or give them away. BUT during all this whittling away of things and the process of packing, I’ve had some awesome conversations with the Lord. Therefore, I can’t say that this part of the process of moving, has been all that distasteful. How often do you and the Lord have quantity and quality time together?

Aside from all the things that I have packed, aside from being surrounded by boxes and living in a shell, I am looking forward with anticipation to this new journey. The road getting to this point was long, but then when everything started to fall into place, it was very sudden too. Because of all this, I have a sense that the Lord has something really special for me in this new journey.

You never know, I might even hear the sound of angel wings…

Vanessa~