God's Love...

God's Love....

It is REAL...
It is for KEEPS...
It is ALL around us....

"Give thanks to the Lord, for he good; his love endures forever."
(1 Chronicles 16:34)

Today, over and over again...I saw God's LOVE....

First it was the Love of a friend...a sweet, sweet friend dropped by my home this morning..to bring me special note-cards (with the Sweet blessing baling twine banner on the front!) My heart was so overjoyed! Plus, the fact, that we got time to visit, to just be and connect! Our friendship is one for Keeps...because God's LOVE is a part of it!

Next, the Mr. and I traveled to Pendleton for a Farmer's Market meeting (Yep, it's true...it'll be coming before we know it!)...there I was blessed to see friends I had spent every weekend ALL Summer with....Friends that live the same kind of life we do (Okay, except theirs involve crops and ours cattle....but, it's relatively close!) The Love I feel for each of them is REAL...because we each live REAL lives!

Now, just a little side-note...the icing on top of the cake was that my Mr. & I stopped at Starbucks for a drink on the way home...(I like to think of it as a mini-date :D)

Once back home, we both headed our own direction...Him to take care of the cows (another answered prayer, since I wasn't able to go help him sort off a pair...which sometimes can take a LOT of running by yourself...I just prayed...and God is good, the Mama & baby actually sorted off by themselves!)...I headed to help the elderly lady down the road with her chores. My heart is still heavy and worried for her...but, I'm praising God that He is answering prayers and her children are finally coming to help. As I was visiting with her, I told her "Happy Valentine's Day"...there was sudden sparkle to her eyes, and a huge smile came across her face..."Thank YOU so much for telling me that" she replied...it was if she had not heard those words for a very long time.

I came home to phone messages from my parents wishing us a Happy day...and, opened my blog to find this beautiful new banner waiting....(It is soooo me too :D) God's LOVE is ALL around us!

If I look, really look, I can see God's LOVE in the very little things and in the very big things....in the ordinary and the routine things, in the everyday pieces of life, and on this day I was LOOKING !!!! My heart today was filled...filled with LOVE!!! From my heart to yours....Sweet blessings!