Embrace your Destiny and walk in His Grace - He is your Strength when you are weak, He lifts you up when you can't reach.....
Hello my dear friends.....a lot has happened - life just happens everyday afresh, there is never a dull moment.....but let me start with a reflections of the last day of 2012:
We, my children, my brother and his children, his girlfriend and a few other friends, went tobogganing in Switzerland - a pretty steep trail down from one train station to the next (6.5 km of sometimes pretty steep territory, sometimes less steep.....it was daytime and it was sometimes scary and other times fun. I was riding with my daughter, and I was making sure, she felt safe and enjoyed the ride.
In the beginning I was braking a lot - it was icy and pretty steep, plus we didn't quite know, how the trail was continuing and how the toboggan reacted to the steering......yet after a while, we got the hang of it, and even though I must admit, the speed still sometimes scared me a little, we were enjoying the ride, looking at the scenery and feeling very alive and grateful for this fun journey.......
At the foot of the hill, in the little village called Bergün we met up with the others, as we were the slowest of the gang - there was a stand where warm drinks could be ordered and I enjoyed a nice warm Glühwein and my daughter had a warm children's punch.
On the train ride back to where we stayed over the holidays, I contemplated the differences of that same sleigh ride 6 years and a few days ago and today: First difference was, that we went down the trail after dark (it's a floodlit tobogganing trail) - my little boy was only 5 at the time......we saw absolutely NOTHING of where we were going.....so even if I kind of figured out the steering after sometime, I could never prepare for any bend just until it was right in front of us......the speed was incredible and I couldn't really enjoy the ride.....as I had to make sure, we wouldn't fall off into some ditch, and hurt ourselves. Making it down, my son and I were incredibly cold and my dad, who had come along, waited in a restaurant near the train station, while the others went up and down one more time (the others being my brother and his twins (7 at the time) and his girlfriend......
It's kind of representative of my life......then I was still living in the dark, afraid to navigate through the dark, afraid I would fall off the track - today I have found the light, and somehow all that happens has lost its treat to me......I learnt to navigate, learnt to view and scan my surroundings, and adapt speed and steering to my path according to the needs.
The reason I tell you this, is to make you aware of the significance of things that we never even realize to give us some information about our situation or the situation of others......but when we open our eyes, and look more closely, we can more often then not learn something about our attitude of our lives. When we more often see the glass half full than we see it half empty, and when we more often hate our circumstances, we can be assured, that our perception is off, that we need to turn inward and change our attitude rather than feel like a victim to our circumstances and maybe even blame others for them.....God gave us a spirit of courage and not of fear, and he promised us, he would walk alongside us - that he would never leave us......I have found great strength in that promise and through FINALLY believing whole heartedly in his promises, I was truly set free to fly.
Today, as I contemplate all that has happened between that one sleigh ride to the other, I can say: I owe it all to God, that I can boldly walk forward.....and not be afraid of any bend that might come unexpected, just as the last days have confirmed......I am in the Grip of his Grace and I pray that you my receive this gift of Grace in your lives as well, that together we would spread our wings and fly to the destiny God has prepared and planned for each one of us.
Praying that my testimony in my previous blogs (http://youschka650220.blogspot.com - Up Close and Personal and http://youschka.blogspot.com - Yielding to the Spirit) may help you in daring to jump off the cliff, into the loving arms of your father - He will either catch you when you fall.....or he'll give you wings to fly!!! He has done both in my life, and it makes me feel absolutely safe and secure in his arms, and with the newest challenges arising, I know, that I will jump again, and I know, that he'll provide all I will ever need, and in his strength I can do whatever comes my way.
Praise God - Amen
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