finding God in sheep
I find myself driving a stretch of road just about everyday that I never would have driven under any other circumstances. For the most part, it’s just a normal drive through normal suburban USA. But for the briefest of moments, suburbia disappears and gives way to country.
There’s a huge red barn, which right now is laced in snow and looks magnificently 
photographable. There’s a curvy river with snow-laden trees leaning over it, looking for their reflection in the icy water. There’s a field where black-faced sheep hunker down in their own sweaters.
Since I first lay eyes on them (in one of my earliest years in Africa), I fell in love with black-faced sheep. Seeing an entire field of them, smack dab in the middle of Columbus, Ohio, feels like God’s smiling down on me. And I can’t help but smile back.
What makes you feel like God’s smiling on you?
There are lots of things, but since you’re talking about farm country in Ohio (which still somehow makes it into the cities in surprising ways)… I love the fields of winter wheat, in the spring, when it’s about 1 1/2 feet tall and the wind plays across it, making it look like fields of velvet.
PS… I don’t remember if I said this before, but I’m an hour or so north of Columbus, near Mansfield. If you come up this way, drop me a line first and I’ll have you over for meal! (Or, if you need to spend the night on somebody’s couch, mine’s available.)
ohio??? what??? enjoy the beautiful warm weather 90 min. south of me…it’s -14 up here right now!
music…the ability to sing/play…and then the opportunity to use those gifts each week…makes me feel like God is smiling on me…
It sounds so beautiful there. I love sheep, too!
Last night, we got an out-of-the-blue, “no way it was a coincidence” huge discount on a new computer monitor. Seeing His hand so clearly like that made me do a jig inwardly and outwardly, and I know my acknowledgment and delight had to make Him smile!
Also: Hearing birds chirping away here ALWAYS makes me smile, and like I can feel God’s smiling at my enjoyment of that.
Friends like you. ;-) And many others. ;-)
Finding solutions…when it seems like nothing makes sense.
Sometimes where I’m sitting or standing, the clouds shift and a shaft of sunlight falls on me. It feels like a touch from the Father.
I LOVE black faced sheep. England is full of them. I miss home, even though I’m supposed to be SA’n.
Your writing paints such amazing imagine in my mind. I especially liked this line: There
imagine = images. oops.
God smiles on me through a little kids laughter and hugs from my nieces and nephews!
When Hope comes in in the morning and Hugs me and Kisses me. I know that God is smiling on me and sent me and angel to take care of little (big) things like Morning lovin’s.
I’m glad you are smiling at sheep!
Me? friends
becoming like sisters
I love that God smiled down on you. I so love it.
Ummmm… Gosh, I don’t know. Little things. Perfect fruit. Something teeny to make me laugh or smile. Help right when I need it, or an answer right when I wasn’t expecting it. He is so loving.
I loved reading this…so beautiful! Me? These days, when Jack smiles or coos at me. God uses him daily to remind me of just how amazing He is.
sunsets with clouds to make His artwork that much more magnificent. and then of course, anything chocolate!
Wow… this was fabulously written; it was like chocolate on the tongue. I love that God smiled at you… what I love more is that you realized it :)