Keep Calm, Nothing Lasts Forever​

In the Great Plains, we are deep in the winter season. As I write this devotion, it is zero degrees with a tranquil soft snow. I am grateful for a warm home, a wonderful family, and our awesome God. This is a perfect day to give to give thanks and praise for God’s unbelievable grace and mercy. Add a cup of herbal tea with raw honey and let it snow, let it snow!

A friend who is the Executive Director of Friends of San Lucas (sanlucasmission.org) shared this poem from John O’Donohue, Irish poet and philosopher which captures this beautiful season:

This is the time to be slow,

Lie low to the wall

Until the bitter weather passes.

Try, as best you can, not to let

The wire brush of doubt

Scrape from your heart

All sense of yourself

And your hesitant light.

If you remain generous,

Time will come good;

And you will find your feet

Again on fresh pastures of promise,

Where the air will be kind

And blushed with beginning.