As a broken world drives by

My office has a prime view of humanity in downtown Lexington. I watch cars of all shapes and sizes drive by with people of all different shapes and sizes in them. Today two of these cars met in the middle of the intersection with a resounding crash.

To add to the scene of chaos and confusion, another car pulls into our parking lot with lots of steam/smoke pouring out from the hood. The couple methodically pulls out a jug of water... They've obviously done this before.

The survey of a hurt and broken world is even more real and more close to home when people you know are losing their jobs and their well being. The struggles and questions of where the next meal are continually real questions asked.

No one is too far removed from the threat of poverty or "security". It could all come crashing down in an instant.

How then can we wipe away our fears? How can we then still our hearts?

"The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still." -Exodus 14:14

I know we call this home...

I'm in one of my emotional moods - this is the time that I should refrain from blogging, but that's usually when I am most introspective.

So many lyrics hitting me hard this week. I can't shake this feeling of being alone.

Two years ago I was packing up my life and moving to Nashville to be some hotshot in the music industry. Now I sit in our newly purchased home in Kentucky, with a husband, a cat, a job that mostly pays the bills, and enough acquaintances to fill Noah's ark. I question why God put us here in this moment, but I just have to trust. Though that comes hard some days.

However, looking at the sunshine out my window, I realize that it looks even more brilliant today because of the storms this afternoon... It's often the storms and the darkness that make those sunny days so magnificent.

Clinging to His strength...