We went for a walk today and as usual the girls wanted to go to the patch of dense thickets to see the deer skull that's lying in the middle (kinda morbid, I know). They all worked their way through the tunnel of branches into the middle, poked at the bones with a stick then turned around to head out.
The 2 older girls lost track of the trail leading out and started fighting branches and prickers while Aubrie stayed by me and held my hand. I could see the trail that we had come in on because I'm bigger (and because I just remember where it is from going through it 1000 times, lol). Aubrie followed along holding onto my hand, carefully stepping over the branches I showed her and waiting while I held back prickers, meanwhile the other girls were still fighting briars and branches and tripping over roots in the middle, determined to forge their own path. Tessa was NOT having it, I regret not getting a picture of that mess 😂
I snapped this picture right as Aubrie made it into the clearing out of the thicket because somehow it felt so peaceful.
Do you feel like you're caught in the thicket of life right now? (This is about to get deep, stay with me 🥴) Like you can't seem to find the way out and are just getting smacked in the face with prickers and briars? Maybe it's related to this crazy virus or maybe it's something completely different. But let me offer you this- you can have peace in the middle of the thicket if you allow Jesus to be the One leading you- He's been there before and He knows the way out.
Maybe the path is leading you somewhere you didn't expect but if your hand is in His then you can know His peace that surpasses comprehension!
"Do not fear, for I have redeemed you;
I have called you by name; you are mine.
When you pass through the waters,
I will be with you;
and when you pass through the rivers,
they will not sweep over you.
When you walk through the fire,
you will not be burned...
For I am the Lord your God"
-Isaiah 43
