Blue Sky

How lovely to see a blue sky, after days of cloud and rain. 

I don't know what the future holds, in terms of weather, but the present looks very pleasant.

That lesson has much to teach me. 

In my job, I often spend much time thinking and planning about the future, so it is good to learn to live in the present moment.

That has great implications for how I learn to live by faith in Jesus. Faithful in people in times past learned that we live by faith in God, moment by moment. 'The Sovereign Lord has given me his words of wisdom,

    so that I know how to comfort the weary.
Morning by morning he wakens me
    and opens my understanding to his will.' (Isaiah 50.4)

Today is the only time that I will live this particular day, and I need to face it with all the simple trust in Jesus that every day requires. I know what is planned, but I don't really know what is coming. But the Lord, my Shepherd knows, so I can trust Him, whatever comes.

In the evening, i shall have a chance, I hope, to reflect.

Best wishes,

Richard