I am going to be honest in sharing that living life as a hobbit is not always as easy as it is cracked up to be…

The only consistent feedback and healthy criticism, comes primarily from God, as He is always near. While this is actually what I feel safest with, it is not completely without flaws… Not His of course, but rather, mine…

I sometimes find myself using God as my excuse to stay safely hidden away, tucked into our RV to be left alone. The price of living in this world has been costly to my spirit, but there is also much joy and hope, love and happiness, and KINDNESS… yes, there is still some of that out there. God has been faithfully healing all of the wounds inflicted, undoing damage that I believed to be permanant. While there will be scars that I carry and tend for the remainder of my life, I will endeavor to continue LOOKING UP!

Whenever I am faced with having to venture out, expose my mind and heart to a world I struggle to engage in, I will literally feel my intestines begin knotting up! My frenemy IBS starts pacing the inner corridors of my heart, giving rise to an emotion of fear. Here I am, a 54 year old woman of God, chosen, set apart, by the very King of the World, and I get scared! I know, right?!?

Well, that is the truth of it! Most of us carry on with smiles and faith, while we still have days that make us want to run and get back in bed. So….. I have thought of a gift for any of you, living like I do, one day at a time…

Isaiah 41:10

“So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”

It has been ever so encouraging for me…