Just Visiting On Life, The New Book and Good Morning God Thank You

     

This is the first artwork in Light Within Cobblestones. It is called View From The Neighbors. 

Some of the symbolism in this artwork mentioned in the book are: 

1. One of the symbols is the small garden confined to a pot on the window sill. The image represents the neighbor’s effort to only gardening indoors.
2. Another symbol is the key next to the pot, it is to unlock your journey through the book.
3. The first cobblestones are the beginning of the neighbor’s path, but is an invitation to you to come forward and walk. 
4. The glass distorts the view through the window because the neighbor never leaves the confines of their house to step onto the path.

5. The flora is so beautiful it is an invitation to the viewer to come on out and join in the journey.

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     I don’t talk as much about our lifestyle and the amazing Huge Tiny House we are blessed with as I did when we first began this journey. The excursion that started in a tent on our property in August 2014 has been filled with bazaar, tough yet fun happenings. I began to worry that my social media friends would think I was only expressing a lot of negative news. So I stopped blogging about them for a while.

     I would prefer everyone felt encouraged when they are going through trials themselves to see nothing can be so bad in my life that I cannot find the gems placed at every milestone along the path. Not that I should be looked up to but I would rather be a beacon of this too shall pass than the dire news harbinger. Sure there are weeds and I have to be reminded by a few of my very close friends to just pick them and throw them into the burn pile. But deep inside me even the trials we have endured find my funny bone and I get a chuckle over how they transpire.

     I have changed quite a bit this year on the inside. I pray it shows on my face. Still, I say stuff, sometimes it is over the top other times it is right on que.

     Our cough-cough house, may not have running water, or a well as of yet. It does not have a regular bathroom or shower. We are halfway to having permanent electricity. The main floor is not finished and we have to tear it apart to rebuild if for in the beginning our helpers did what they could with what was available and gave us a temporary dwelling. But when my husband and I step through the door at the end of the day we are blessed with a roof over our heads. It has been provided by God in such a unique way that we can only feel the joy of the presentation.

     We see the diamond like glittering of this gift even if others aren’t so enthused. Sure, we aren’t living the standard comfortable life most people do without thought but we are happy with the ongoing results of our gleaning.

     Out of this journey has come the finished book Light Within Cobblestones as well as great progress on Diamonds In The Dirt. The first book is God serious in a gentle voice most people will not recognize as my own. I know where that voice comes from, God. The second is a more homespun visit in how God has applied His lessons in our lives. I hope when you read both you will be inspired to see your walk as a blessing wherever the cobblestones take you. Personally though, I think everyone should have the opportunity to do without in their life just once. It is faith building. 

Today the book will head into the world and show up on Amazon quite soon. I am not in control of this part so hang in there and wait in the virtual line for your copy! 

I want to take a moment and hand everything over to God. I am blessed beyond words with everything for I see miracles even in the dirt at my feet. I pray for the same thing in everyone's life. 

I think I will sing and hum through my day! God Loves You!

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Psalms 95: 2 -4

2 Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song.

3 For the LORD is the great God, the great King above all gods. 

4 In his hand are the depths of the earth, and the mountain peaks belong to him.