God's Grace: Peace within Difficulties

The older I get the more I come to the terms of my agreement with God to be given a body of flesh and blood. I took the opportunity to enter a fallen world, to have free agency, and to live a mortal life that would strengthen and test my faith that I may someday enter into an everlasting state of joy.

I've been tested. I mean really REALLY tested lately.

The past two Decembers have really kicked me in the knickers. Last year I lost a mare, my husband and Is 14-year-old pitty, and a beloved Navy Veteran that we made part of our family when I was just 8 years old. All of that in a two-week period.

This December on the 16th I lost the most pure and loving mare I have ever owned. Her passing has left more holes in my spirit than you can count. She left behind her pasture mate, Jack, and to that what I can only assume, he died in the night from a broken heart. And all of that again in a two-week period. I'm not one for superstitions, but maybe God is telling me to dig holes in the spring. For whatever reason, I'm not sure I'll ever truly understand.

To have life there must also be death. But in death there also begins a new life. A new life in eternity for Trixie and Jack, and all of the beloved animals I've had that have passed on. They are in their new life of eternal rest and happiness. God's grace is sufficient enough that I only hope one day when my earthly probation has ended, I will be able to meet them at the pearly gates of Heaven. That the goodbyes were never really goodbyes, they were just see you later.

~Jess

Dolly said it best, "Storms make trees taker deeper roots."