Joyful Home

I just finished the Attributes of God study from The Daily Grace Co. and it was an incredible study of getting to know the Lord. Afterall, He knows me, right? I knew some of the attributes but not all of them. It was fun to get into a deeper dive on omnipresence. What a beautiful opportunity He has given me to be able to sit in His presence. I am in a relationship with the Lord and I need to get to know Him so that I can understand what it is He likes, desires, and expects from me. It's been a beautiful journey. My dreams have been indicating that I am scaling rocks and jumping from one cliff to another with skill. At first I was scared, but my inner-man (Ephesians 3:16) had confidence and told my mind that I can do it with ease. So the second dream, I was scaling smoothly. In my awake life, I did a little research and found that I am under the shelter of Christ. I'm in hiding and the perfect example of this is from my favorite passage of scripture - Moses and God in the crevic...

 Recently I had to put my 18 year old pup-dog down whose name was Chloe. We got her when she was 7 months old and never had a problem with her. She was always healthy, except the one time she got stung by a bee. We had to give her Benadryl. But overall, she was a fantastic pup and adult dog. She was my companion, my partner, my traveler and friend.  The leading up to her death, I knew that the Lord was working on me with some things in regards to her. I hadn't lost a dog before that was my pal. I grew up with dogs but I was either too young when Buddy passed to realize or I was out of the home already with my husband when our other dog passed away. Never one that was close like Chloe-girl.  My family and friends knew that it was time for Chloe to be put down but I couldn't get passed the fact that God and I weren't ready. I asked God if He could make this experience peaceful and calm so that I wouldn't have to go through the trauma of seeing her be euthanized. She was f...