In Awe

Jeremiah 33:9 -- "They will tremble with awe because of all the good and all the peace I will bring about for them." 

Even though we put two blankets on the ground beneath us, the damp cold seeped right through.  Steven and I leaned into on another, hoping to share some heat, but our teeth chattered away, anyway.  It was beautiful. The two of us, hiding out in the back yard on the pond bank, looking up at a dazzling sky, counting shooting stars from the meteor shower.  The moon was a little on the bright side, so we did have some light pollution, but we were still able to witness four of those amazing aliens bouncing off the earth's atmosphere.

We sat in awe.

Sunset over the pond in our back yard

We trembled. And not just from the cold.

This year, in August, Steven and I will celebrate our sixteenth wedding anniversary. We've been through much together. [oh, so very much]  We are in awe of the good and the peace that God has brought about for us. We tremble at the sheer amazing grace and that somehow God can calm a raging storm, and then, give us a rainbow. We are in awe that our children cling to Christ. We tremble when we see evidence of God working in their lives and rejoice with them when they claim a victory in Him.

We spent many, many years deep in the muck of our own mistakes and poor choices.  But on this night, we sit on the bank of our pond and watch the world turn in the skies above us.  And we are in awe.

I am in awe. And I am so very, very grateful for God's amazing good and glorious peace.