Fire for HIM

Recently, I was hiking at Jenny Lake in Wyoming.  Although I had done the hike previously, I did not remember how beautiful the scenery was.  My heart knew that Jenny Lake was a place of treasured memories with my family.  I remembered the moments rather than the cascading waterfall, giant boulders along the trail, and towering lodge pole pines.  On my recent visit, my husband and I were hiking up to the waterfall.  The scenery was breath-taking.  However, the trail was treacherous.  Basically, all hikers were expected to find sure footing within the jagged pieces of boulders. It was a trail cut into the mountain, with sharp points of sandy rock sticking out.  Each step seemed to be a slippery slope.  With this being nerve racking, I felt the need to look at my feet most of the time to ensure that my foot was placed in a safe location.  I wasw afraid to fall.  While spending much time looking at my feet, a lot of the scenery was m...

Remember the principle of the apple dropped.  Gravity.  Sometimes life is like gravity.  Today on the way to school, one of my children was facing something they didn't want to do.  They felt stuck and angry.  Another child said, "Look in the sky! Wow!"  We looked out of the front glass of our van, and there was a jet with his smoke trail moving straight upwards into the sky.  It was framed in front of us, as we headed down our driveway.  As we turned toward the school, we discovered the picture of what looked like a flower blooming already painted with smoke across the horizon.  I only have to travel 1.3 miles to school, but by the time I was turning back to go home.  The same jet had already moved all the way across the sky and returned back to move upwards again in the same spot we had seen him when we left the house.  I was stirred to remember that we can hold the hand of the Father and again and again move upwards to...