Warning....

My walk today consisted of a path that I have taken many times before. Thanks to my dear husband and wonderful father-in-law I have a beautiful walking trail cut clear through all 80 acres of the two properties. My trip has never made me nervous before, why today. Perhaps it is because of the sounds of howls that come from the timber at night....the coyote's are so thick that we even had one sleeping in our yard in the middle of the morning one weekend. As I walked along I could see imprints in the mud of evidence that coyote's had been there prior to me. I found myself jumping at my own crumpling of leaves under my feet. I wondered why was there so much fear today when yesterday I walked without an ounce of fear........I answered my own question.....it was because I walked with my hero, my protector, the man that God gave me to look after me. He feels so big in my life. I don't know what I would expect him to do if one day a coyote decided to come at us...but I still have this sense of security with knowing he is with me.

Last year as I sat on the porch studying I looked up to see a fawn and its mother playing in the bottom. It was such an enthralling sight to see such innocence, with no awareness of the dangers that lurked in the world beyond the fun. The fawn knew it was secure, it had no worries of what could lie ahead. It reminded me of the security we have in God....when we don't tarry away from his watchful eye, he holds us close, he looks up at every rustle of leaves around us, making sure that no one or no thing harms his precious child. That night as Bill got home from work I found myself so anxious to take him down to the bottom to see if we could find the mother and her fawn. As we walked into the bottom and rounded the corner.....there we found him...the only things remaining where what the coyote didn't devour....the whole time the child played the coyote lurked around the corner, watching every move....just waiting for the opportunity... for him to wander away from the watchful eye of his mother. I believe our lives are alot like that fawn we do well while we stay close to the father and stay within his watchful eye, but what happens when we wander away....

1 Peter 5:8 "Be self-controlled and ALERT, your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour." RESIST HIM, standing firm in the faith. Many times after a victory we let our guards down and that is when satan does his best to find the smallest entry in to destroy our very lives. Stand Firm Church, satan lurks looking for the moment that we step away.....Let us not give him that opportunity.