Who has not been in the woods and become aware of the babbling music coming from a brook as it bubbles over the rocks making little currents. Added to the song of birds, the buzzing of bees, and the wind blowing through the trees you have a beautiful melody to listen to. Sometimes the harmony is broken by a torrential rain storm that is punctuated by thunder, lightening, and winds that are no longer friendly. We run for cover thinking that this is an abuse to our right to a peaceful day in the woods.Life is like this. When our stream of living seems to be without any impediments such as boulders to scale or rocks to climb we feel happy. We think that no challenge is a good thing. Then we tend to forget that it is in the valleys and in the storms that God blesses us with new understandings and personal growth.
The result is that we emerge and our life song is closer to the harmony that God planned for us from all eternity. If our personal rocks are removed the strean of our lives would not have a melody that is as sweet as it could be.
Think of this when your life seems fraught with pebbles. Remember to listen for the song of your brook as it flows over what you think to be stumbling stones. They just might turn out to be the building blocks of your life.
3 comments:
Oh my goodness, Corinne !! I am so sorry to say that before this I haven't taken the time to "venture" into your "corner" of the website. I absolutely LOVE what you have written. It is refreshing, to "take" this journey with you as you as you have described it !! I LOVE the analogy of the stumbling stones into building blocks... Thank you !!
Great reminder of how God works all around us if we just listen. Beautiful, thanks.
This is really beautiful and an incredibly powerful metaphor, the image is particularly lovely.
Yes, celebrate the stones in the river, the twists and turns of life!
Peaceful blessings
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