2023 has been one heck of a ride. I mean, wow.
This is the year when so many assumptions collapsed because we did not pretend. I will have other thoughts on the year upon better reflection, even some predictions that might seem a little “out there”. Then again, I’m not exactly known for following the herd safety formula.
However, as the eve winds down, and as we are given to considering everything that has taken place, a revisit to the spiritual core of our association is appropriate.
For me, this year provided many memorable gifts; almost all were driven by a purposeful God reminding me to keep poking my head into the human mechanics of common presumptions. Nothing is more empowering than listening to His message, being completely lost yet jumping on faith, and then finding out the wow; why it was necessary to put prayer in front of fear.
Yup, we are about to walk into entirely new challenges. Perhaps we are not prepared, perhaps we will all test our faith, perhaps we will discover new limits to our exhaustion, perhaps we will discover we are much stronger than we realize. One of the reasons for my optimism is that I think the latter is assured.
I believe we are stronger than we give ourselves credit for. I believe YOU are stronger, more purposeful, smarter, more strategic, more influential, more necessary and far more loved than you can ever imagine.
Yes, I am stunningly optimistic, much more so today on the last day of 2023, than I was on the first day. The knowledge we possess is powerful – far more powerful than the pretenses we fight against.
Regardless of how we exit this year, excited or slightly nervous, we must admit it can be challenging to retain a joyful ‘best life’ while everything around us seems created to deliver ultimate chaos and madness.
However, if we accept that a loving God is the source of the purest truth, we can create something stronger within ourselves just by making a choice. Do that, choose that, follow that and we will have accomplished a great deal.
Regardless of what tomorrow brings, we always have choices. A new year’s perspective:
I have long felt that life is like a series of links in a chain. You might be driving down the road and you hear a song on the radio, or see a picture, and you feel a memory….
Something triggers within you that reminds of a different time and place than where you are right now.
You reflect.
The memories you consider remind you of a totally different time in your life.
Perhaps you lived in a different place. Perhaps you were surrounded by different people. Perhaps a different job or completely different friends. You recognize those memories were constructed like frozen moments in time. They became individual links in the chain in your life.
We never actually realize, in the immediate moment, when one link closes and another link begins. But when we look back, we can clearly see distinct points where things changed, the link closed, and a new link began.
You see, the links are only visible in reflection.
As we reflect, we find parts of the chain in our life where each link closes and connects with the other. A beginning, and an end. At the point where the links are joined, we carry parts of the previous link forward to the next.
For many people those connections are bonded by family, or very strong lifelong relationships. Connections which continue beyond our geographic moments, jobs or temporary acquaintances.
But for everyone, the primary bonding agent brought forward from one link to the next is us, our center, our values and core principles. Our beliefs.
The strength of the steel which comprises the links of our life is forged in the fire of adversity, weakness, challenge, pain, loss, and painful growth. The steel is then cooled with the tears of triumph, hurdles overcome and resolve.
The forging makes the steel stronger and able to withstand the pressures that accompany the additional length. Slowly the chain becomes wiser as it lengthens. Able to reach further, form more significant benefits and become more useful.
Hope replaces fear. Love replaces loneliness. Success replaces adversity. These are successful links began and finished while contributing to the whole.
At times we may manipulate the links with avoidance. We hide from -or choose to avoid- an issue in our effort to begin a new link before the old one was naturally, and spiritually, prepared to be closed.
Eventually, as life continues and the chain lengthens, the weak link can fracture, and we are forced to revisit/repair what we originally chose to avoid.
You see, in life we cannot control the universal laws that guide us. So, if we manipulate circumstances to avoid confronting our own weakness, we cannot fully strengthen our life of links. Eventually, the weakness of our past will impact our future.
So, what principles do we carry from link to link? What core values and beliefs stay with us throughout the journey of our lives? The answers to these questions are what makes us human spiritual beings.
We possess free will able to make choices about what we do, and how we define our individual humanity; but can we then define ’right’ and ‘wrong’ according to our individual principles? Or are there principles that exceed our influence and definition?
Are there natural laws of right and wrong, good and bad, that cannot be subjected to the determination of man?
These are the bigger questions, perhaps the more important questions; and yet, perhaps the ones we reflect upon the least.
Consider the example of the ‘Law of the Farm’ vs. the ‘Law of the School’. Natural principles vs. those made by man.
A student can skip class, take few notes, pay only half attention, then stay up all night cramming for a test and manage a decent grade. It depends on the student’s goal: grades or learning.
The student can choose to manipulate the education, by avoiding the learning and capturing the grade. This is possible in the ‘Law of the School’.
However, a farmer cannot take short cuts. A farmer cannot avoid tending to the soil, preparing the seed, fertilizing and nurturing the crop, and still gain the benefit of an abundant harvest.
The farmer must necessarily do all of the appropriate work in order to benefit from it. Such is the ‘Law of the Farm’, the natural law.
When one considers the weakness remaining within a poorly constructed and manipulated link, perhaps established by selfish choices and driven by avoidance and fear, one can be faithfully assured those who have dealt dishonestly with us will have to visit the issues of their association again.
Conversely, no amount of manipulation or avoidance on our own behalf is going to improve the frailty of any link without first resolving the lack of character which created the weakness.
So, we have choices in our lives. Decisions we each make regarding how we interact and participate in the lives and links of others, as well as how we choose to construct the links that comprise our own lives.
Do we base our sense of purpose around natural principles? Principles based on natural laws of right and wrong, good and bad, truth and lies. Do we forge strong links by following our heart, our values?
If we can interact with others absent of a prideful self-driven agenda, or manipulative intent, we can then apply such principles and strength to our endeavors.
If we protect the integrity of the soil upon which we build the foundation of our lives, we can live without regret.
If we fertilize and cherish our crop, and the crop of our neighbor, with honesty and sincere appreciation for the souls we meet along our chosen path, we will live a life of abundance.
If we tend carefully to the consideration of everyone, yet holding true to our values and principles, we can strengthen ourselves amid the face of adversity and disenchantment.
If we do not hide from, nor ignore our individual and collective faults, we can build the chain of our life with strength, humility, and purpose.
I wish for each of you a long chain of bold, strong, beautiful links, polished with the reflective brilliance of Love, and the very happiest of blessings for a brand-New Year.
Abiding love to all.
Steadfast,
~ Sundance
…Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Thanks for all you do Sundance and for the information and wisdom you provide to us. My best to you and your family and a Happy New year to you as well.
A toast!!! To our intrepid Sundance and the indefatigable team of friends, Menagerie, Ad rem, Stella, and Wee…together who have given us this place of Refuge, without which we’d probably all be pulling our hair out.
And a toast to every Branch Dweller in this blessed Tree. The journey through these times has been made endurable because of the company of beautiful souls who are family. May 2024 be kind to each one of you. Almighty God will steer our ship into safe harbour. Hold tightly on to your mustard seeds and don’t let go, my friends. They are very precious, as are you all.
CHEERS!! 💕 🙏🏻
One of the many outstanding writers here. I’m regularly left thinking I couldn’t have said it better. Thanks Bets for all you do..
No words, Robb…everyone here speaks his or her heart. A greater group of people is impossible for me to imagine…of which you are one, my friend. Your kind words mean a lot. Thank you 😘
Cheers Betsy….and a New Year that’s filled with love and joy! 🍸 🍸🍾
Thank you, dear sis😘 One foot in front of the other. I can’t think of anyone I’d rather travel with as we make our way into the unknown. Be well and be blessed 🙏🏻💕
I WANT to hope for the best. But, I fear something worse than 2020 is in the works. President Trump’s success is more than the regime can deal with, apparently.
I WILL continue to live my best life, regardless.
But, my pessimism is off the charts right now, unfortunately.
🙏🙏🙏
Bam, ramp up your faith and kick that fear out of the way.
It works every time.
sometimes you need to hoist the 🏴☠️ and slit a few……. Meanwhile, sand and live your best life. Off we roll to ‘24.
Prayers going up for you, Bam, and for many others here on this site. Keep the faith.
One person’s “pessimism” is another person’s reality-based evaluation….and healthy fear is often a life-saver. Crippling fear is not a good thing; neither is a perspective that refuses to deal with reality. My perspective and/or my responses to what’s happening will not determine what happens next. I don’t bear that responsibility and neither do you, Bamanicious. I also am, and will continue to, live my best life.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I friend of my 75 yr old mother just told me a great anecdote tonight.
If you worry all of the time you’re still going to die.
If you don’t worry at all you’re still going to die.
Its best to prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
And, as Sundance tells us often, “live your best life”.
Careful with that Sickle, Cronus!
Happy new year, and a healthy one!
careful with that ax, Eugene!
“I believe we are stronger than we give ourselves credit for.” Yeah, me too. Happy new year, dude. Keep up the good work. We’re not done.
When I see young kids and babies, I just don’t think God would leave them a future of Joe Biden, world wars, financial ruin, drag queens and trannies. I just don’t see it.
Then I think of Oct 7 and what the hounds form
Hell did to those babies
And to you, SD!
May He keep guiding you and us!
“I have long felt that life is like a series of links in a chain.”
Life is very real, but all that happens was caused by something or some things, that in turn were caused by other things, that were caused by other things, and so on, and so on. And so it will be with all things that happen in the future. It is all predetermined, even if no power on earth can determine what it will all be.
Thank you Sundance for your keen insight to our politics and culture. You are light years ahead of the herd. I often forward your detailed briefings to friends, relatives and colleagues.
I too am feeling much more optimistic about the events to come this year. I realize that nationwide there are lots more of us than there are of them. I am starting to see changes in people even here in Silicon Valley. The light bulb is finally going on for at least a few.
Best wishes for a great New Year, to you and your family.
“However, if we accept that a loving God is the source of the purest truth, we can create something stronger within ourselves just by making a choice. Do that, choose that, follow that and we will have accomplished a great deal.”
Philippians 4:6-8 KJV
Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. [7] And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. [8] Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
Philippians 4 is filled with encouragement for the born again Christian.
The peace of God (v7) comes only from the God of peace (v 9) when the Christian remains steadfast to Him.
And the Apostle Paul wrote the letter from prison and in danger of death!
He is the example he wrote every Christian ought to be.
A joyful anticipation,
The promise of new life,
renewed Hope and a manifestation in a new way of loving – in living God’s life.
Happy New Year Sundance, to you and yours. Happy New Year Treepers, one and all.
I cannot express how thankful I am for for all that you and those who contribute behind the scenes do. Your insight and understanding is profound Sundance! The contributors here are outstanding too. Happy New Year to all. Contributing again
Best thing of 2023?
The over abundance of empty Bud Light trailers that can be utilized in 2024 to relocate all the deranged TDS’rs from Hollywood to their country of choice after VSGPDJT is back at the helm.
Happy New Year to you and yours, dear Sundance, and thank you.beyond measure for your keen insights and perceptions.
Happy New Year to the Treeper Community as well!
Beautiful self-reflection and help for those of us – like me – that get so discouraged from time to time. THIS is why I come back to this site to level the pitch, so to speak. Thank you, Sundance. Happy New Year!
Let’s start it right…
https://rumble.com/v44daql-this-brit-is-done-with-multiculturalism.html
“I believe we are stronger than we give ourselves credit for. I believe YOU are stronger, more purposeful, smarter, more strategic, more influential, more necessary and far more loved than you can ever imagine.”
My sister watched the latest Netflix movie, Leave The World Behind.
Apparently Kevin Bacon plays the stereotypical “conservative” and the part reminded her of me.
I haven’t watched, and she knows I’m not crazy, in fact, she listens to me and quietly assesses how often I have rightly pointed things out.
Small victories.
Thank you, Sundance, and blessings to you and your loved ones in 2024
My deepest thanks,SD for all the hard work you do. Glad to have been here for many years. 2024 will be a taxing year for all us treepers. With you leading, we will survive.HAPPY NEW YEAR and God Bless 🇺🇸 AMERICA….
thank you Sundance what each soul needs to hear …..love. Blessings as always.
Wolverines!
Sincere thanks Sundance for your unwavering dedication to the pursuit of truth, regardless of how uncomfortable it makes some or how it terrifies others into reacting with denial and ad hominem.
CONSISTENCY of message and the search for facts – is the outstanding feature of your blog and many Treepers whose comments provide all with expanded knowledge.
That consistency combined with steadfast faith is an unbeatable combination, and what attracts me to CTH.
I pray for His blessings for a very beneficial and Happy New Year to you, Sundance.
I think SD is right.
We have reason to be optimistic.
Happy New Year to all you Treepers.
It’s going to be wild.
Best, best, best 2024 to all of us. Let’s make it happen.
Amen! And as sadistic as it may sound, let us find some gratitude in the past 3 years. Without doubt, it has awakened many. WE KNOW WHO THEY ARE!
Happy New Year
Backatcha, Sundance! Cheers to a most wonderful 2024! Thank you always for your words of wisdom, insight, foresight and inspiration. Let us put on the armor of God, begin our days on our knees in prayer, then get on our feet and let’s roll!
I absolutely treasure these words, Sundance! Sometimes the path chosen is not gold. However, there’s a link, as you beautifully state, that creates a reflection to lifes JOURNEY.
Happy New Year to all.
Thank you for this tree branch 🇺🇸
Sundance, may you and your family and friends have peace, good health, safety, and more blessings than can be counted in the coming year and the years to come.
Retired Magistrate here: Yes, life is a series of links and some of mine were broken.
Last year I attempted contact again with my 55 year old daughter who I gave up for adoption; as an unwed mother in the 60’s, society didn’t have much compassion for me at all. Our contact was shaky at first; many tears and of course the why I gave her up for adoption question. At the end of last year she was able to start to understand.
This year has been wonderful. Due to my health problems I can’t visit her and she has a teenage son who keeps her busy. However, we e mail a lot, call each other and write each other. We have so many of the same interests and she is such a blessing. She finally is calling me “Mom” and my 24 year old granddaughter welcomed me into the family this year. My 14 year old grandson has accepted me as grandma. These are blessings I never thought I would have.
So as we head into a New Year I look forward to more calls, e mails, letters, cards, presents back and forth and just knowing that particular broken chain has been mended.
Happy 2024 everyone.
It is truly a blessing that you have reforged these bonds of family and I look forward to hearing more like this next year.
May your New Year be prosperous and you and yours be blessed with good health and happiness your honner. 🖖🏻
A very much blessed New Year I pray for you, sir.
Thank you ma’am, I need all the help I can get. You Duchess and others have helped me greatly with your kind words.
Happy New Years to you and yours 🖖🏻
Thank you for sharing. I can only imagine the fear and doubt you faced down in courage to reach out.
May 2024 be wonderful for you all.
Family is everything. I’m glad you reconnected.
Marcia – God bless you and for your unwavering attempts to connect to your life string to a higher power. So happy that you never gave up, that she opened her heart and family to yours and that you are building the bonds that matter. You, your words, and insight have affected me and brought me to a better place many a day. So appreciate you and I am thrilled that God is answering your heartfelt prayers. May 2024 bring us all to a better place and mend all that is broken — wouldn’t that be amazing? I believe 🙏❤️💪
Lovely!
Have a terrific 2024.
Cheers!
A happy Hogmanay, my friend 💕 Blessings unending I pray for you and all your family in the new year to come.
🏴🏴🏴🥂
God is so good, Marcia. Sometimes we have to wait until our children get to that stage in their own lives before they can finally understand. I rejoice with you.
Yours is a heartwarming story, Marcia. My story is also one of broken threads and abandonment.
Bless you for reaching out to your daughter. May the love of your precious family be multiplied as you continue this healing journey.
Your words are a testimony for those who are contemplating the same with their unborn children, and a deterrence for those considering the alternative.
God bless you, Marcia!
Praise GoD!!!
Such a wonderful story; thank you for sharing, Marcia, and Happy New Year to you & your family!!! 🙂
God blesses us in ways we never foresee. As I tell one of my cousins, you were brave and you did the hardest most difficult thing because you loved your child.
best news ever, friend. you never stopped loving and God mended and blessed.
Marcia, may our Lord continue to bless you and your family! Your story will serve as inspiration to countless others as they navigate through difficult waters of family relationships.
Thank you for being such a strong branch in this tree! Your expertise in the law offers clarity in the complex legal decisions and voting issues. Your knowledge strengthens us! We will persevere!
Much love to you, Sundance, Admin, and my fellow Treepers!
Happy New Year SD and all those hanging out in the Treehouse!! Peace to you!
Happy and healthy New Year to Sundance and the rest of the CTH team. I am so grateful for your tremendous efforts to help me navigate this difficult course we have ahead of us.
My NY resolution for 2024 is to try to be a little better person than in 2023 and to accept that that I have little say in the outcome. God has the final say and acceptance of that is the best I can pray for. So to all other treepers out there have a happy and healthy new year.
Pray and help others
Here’s to a blessed 2024
Dear God we need you so much
Thankful to be in community with other Treepers! Blessed to share hopes and aspirations with like minded patriots…one valuable lesson I learned 30 years ago in my early thirties stemmed from infertility…I discovered first that I was an idealist…the desire to be a mother was foremost in my calling..second, I discovered I was an optimist…despite having fertility issues I continued to believe in motherhood…third, I discovered that I am a realist…my calling to be a mother was not going to happen naturally but through the grace of God and the pursuit of my calling, I became a mother 3x over by the gift of adoption. God is good and when we submit to his will and his way though the road may be rocky and paved with problematic pebbles, ultimately it leads to the path of life…Psalm 16:11…never relinquish HOPE…Romans 5:3-5 In summary, I’ve learned to look at challenges through a different lens. Praying for our country and especially other Treepers to trust in God’s sovereignty and the courage and forbearance to pursue our individual callings. I acknowledge that Sundance is not the light of the world but he most definitely is a light in this world. May each of us let our lights shine for the glory of God in this dark and depraved world. In 2024, be an idealist with an optimistic attitude and a realist’s action plan…Happy New Year!
Agreed 🙂
Everything for the most part is out of our control. If we for the most part could all learn to let go Go God – wouldn’t that be amazing? The “script” was written for us all – trust the plan, live ones Best lives and believe in something bigger than us. We all have this – just believe!
2024 rough at first, but the year we Americans take back our Freedom.
May God bless us each and everyone in New Year 22024. Thank You Sundance, thank you all Treeper’s. May you all have a truly Blessed 2024!!
Ooops. Typo – 2024.
It will probably feel that long!! 🙂
So now does the team fall apart?
I just have to say. I’m sorry that so many of our military members lost their lives for our country to be taken over and run into the dirt by the likes of Joe Biden.
Many men and women from all walks of life and from the beginning of our Nation till recently gave the ultimate sacrifice to be able to have the freedoms that many take for granted. It makes my blood boil when I think about the treacherous actions that men and women who have raised their hands and taken an oath of office to enrich themselves over those they swore to serve.
I am a Mule, sometimes I can’t find my tale and sometimes I am lost in my own worries. When I come here this community of Patriots help me to focus and steady my over imaginative mind. Sundance, you truly are a blessing to this lowly Mule, you bring clarity and purpose to a murky and confusing world that we live in today. I am watching and waiting for the day when all the old Mules will be called to the field and allowed to do the work that needs to be done. I may not be the wisest or the strongest of the pack but my dedication to the Constitution and We the People is total and un-severable, my oath had no expiration date.
AMEN
Thank you for your service and I don’t believe you are a mule.
Ohh I don’t use the term in a negative fashion…but I am a proud and stubborn old Mule none the less.
The phrase “old mules” is a reference to a previous post by Sundance.
I am so glad to see you, DG. Many on the Open Thread continue to offer prayers on your behalf. So for me it was a joy to see you here this evening. God bless and keep you always🙏🏻
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As a fellow mule from a different stable I agree with your praise of Sundance as I too find solace in his and the Lords words. I also am watching and waiting but have been applying myself to get physically ready by exercising daily for the rigors ahead. With prayers and allegiance to our Father in Heaven we must be prepared for the battles that are headed our way. With well stocked supplies of faith, food and essentials we shall overcome. Thank you for your service and God bless.
That photo appears to be of a man… perched on a rooftop… gazing out over a cityscape… somewhere… anywhere… perhaps pondering the complexities of a world gone mad…
Or he could just be thinking “I wonder what I should do for dinner tonight”…
Mr. Piddles, you have faded into the shadows and don’t comment much. We miss you.
Ah, well… 2023 was a tough year, to be honest… what with the state of affairs in The Country, but also on the personal front. In any case, thanks for the kind thoughts, Dixie… :^)
God is my rock. I lean on Him in all ways and for all things which keeps me from truly fearing anything. I have reached the point in my life where nothing or no one in this world will rob me from knowing He is all need to be happy and feel safe from all that is evil. It’s a great comfort especially when we’re constantly bombarded by lies & deceit. I will never give Satan and his earthly demons the satisfaction of feeling threatened let alone defeated! Live your best life as Sundance says! It’s like spitting in the face of Satan himself.
My sincerest wishes to Sundance, his staff and their families and all the Treepers and theirs for the most blessed New Year ever!
Thank you Sundance and “ crew”
To say that TCTH has been a blessing, is an understatement.
Whatever comes of 2024 we
here at TCTH are more prepared and aware than the vast majority of society.
I owe that primarily to the site, and its highly intelligent and wise contributors.
Cheers, and a Happy, Safe, Healthy and Prosperous New Years to all.
God bless President Trump.
From God’s lips to PDJT’s ears. From PDJT’s lips to our ears.
Happy New Year SD and fellow branch occupiers. I used to post a lot more than I do currently, life got very busy and new job keeps me hopping. I do read as many posts and comments as I can, just can’t participate like I want to right now.
Off to bed now. Hoping the neighbor with the auto rifle doesn’t do anything stupid (they are shooting it in between fireworks).
2024 is going to be MAGA.
Sláinte
May the road rise up to meet you,
may the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
the rain fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
And until we meet again,
may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
Until we meet again,
until we meet again,
may God hold you,
may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
is it two roads diverged in a wood?
Or Two roads diverged in a yellow wood?
I must have fallen asleep when it was explained in school
Your quote the beginning of the poem, SD quotes the end…
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
The first poem my dad had me memorize (the web is much more efficient than my memory)..
thank you, robb and dad.
thanks all who answered. I feel better now. Now I can ponder between yellow wood and wood and surmise it may have something to do with age which decides which road we choose.
Well said, Sundance…. as always.
Happy New Year to you and yours… and to all you Treepers.
And thank you for everything….
Hey! Long time no see! Happy healthy New Year to ya!
I hope you see this because I am glad to see you.
Happy New Year, Dixie!
Here’s wishing you the very best for 2024!
I hope it’s your best year yet! 🙏
Happy New Year Sundance! I am so ready for 2024!
Sundance, you, the admins and treepers ARE my chain links and have been for years. You all keep me grounded when all seems lost. Best wishes to you and all my treeper friends for a happy healthy new year.
Sundance you are like the light house high on a hill lighting the way for travelers so they can find their way in all kinds of waters. What a safe haven your site gives one in these times of tempest. And the commenters, what great travel companions!
I seem to remember back when you mentioned these links in a chain in a writing and how I thought how profound but simple. I for one, feel so blessed to have discovered your website and peace of mind in my continuing education from it.
Prayers for you and your family for a Happy, Healthy New Year!!!!
Thank you Sundance for all the lessons we have learned together.
Beautifully said.. just what my little bit sad soul needed tonight.
We will all be fine.. we will arrive wherever we are to be in God’s good timing.
There is purpose in all.
We will understand as we look back when there is more Light. Love and blessings in the New Year to all the treehouse family!!
Beautifully said!
When God has your back, all things are possible. Happy New Year, to the amazing Treeper Family.
“necessary to put prayer in front of fear.”
This is the path I have taken in the past few years…, not without pain, and not without sometimes upsetting others around me and close to me.
It is only and always the response to prayer that has kept me steadfast.
Presence shows itself in ways that are sometimes subtle, (dreams and coincidence and the kindness of strangers. Sometime the hawk that appears overhead, unexpected).
And sometimes big and in my face (like surviving a head on crash at 65mph a few weeks ago, when someone thought they could “make it” across the highway. I found there was nothing I could do in that last second except to pray.)
Feeling the presence that comes in response to prayer is what keeps me moving forward, doing what seems needed, and staying alive in this world, for now.
Thank you Sundance for being a constant reminder to remember Spirit in our practical daily lives and for providing a place to come and pray every day. Smiles and blessing for the new year.
Thank God for his protection over you. Some of my most fervent prayers have been breathed, yelled, cried, and whispered in one word: “GOD!”