STUMBLING STONES or BUILDING BLOCKS?...Monday

3/9/15

Who has not been in the woods and become aware of the babbling music coming from a brook as it bubbles over the rocks making little currents. Added to the song of birds, the buzzing of bees, and the wind blowing through the trees you have a beautiful melody to listen to.  Sometimes the harmony is broken by a torrential rain storm that is punctuated by thunder, lightening, and winds that are no longer friendly.  We run for cover thinking that this is an abuse to our right to a peaceful day in the woods.

Life is like this. When our stream of living seems to be without any impediments such as boulders to scale or rocks to climb we feel

 happy. We think that no challenge is a good thing. Then we tend to forget that it is in the valleys and in the storms that God blesses 

us with new understandings and personal growth.

The result is that we emerge and our life song is closer to the 

harmony that God planned for us from all eternity.  If our 

personal rocks are removed, the strean of our lives would not have a melody that is as sweet as it could be.

Think of this when your life seems 
fraught with pebbles. Remember to 
listen for the song of your brook as it 
flows over what you think to be stumbling stones.  They just might turn 
out to be the building blocks of your life.

Thank you, God, for putting your stones and pebbles into the
brooks of my life. Because these stones are there, I am learning 
more about life and Your desires for me as I live it under the 
shadow of Your wings. Help me to hear Your voice in the s
tream and to understand what You are teaching me.

Amen.

Written by 

Corinne Mustafa