Heart Hope by Olga

As the year winds down, I can't help but look back to see God's goodness, faithfulness and provision. The last 12 months have been a whirlwind; we sold our home of ten years, moved twice, was given a promotion at work, went to Israel and are awaiting the arrival of our fourth grandchild. The sale of the house was difficult, but God's fingerprints were all over it, bringing just the right buyer at just the right time. He then provided a wonderful friend who let us stay in her place in Beaver Creek for 6 months while deciding what was next. We felt as though we were on vacation just one block from the heart of the Village even though we went to work each day. Less than a week before traveling to Israel at the end of October, we moved to a more permanent place getting everything out of storage and feeling somewhat settled. The life changing trip to the Holy Land was fast and furious for the time we were gone, but my Bible will never be the same because of what I saw, hea...

Happy New Year everyone! It’s hard to imagine that it’s already 2012. The days, weeks, months and years seem to be flying by faster than we can imagine. This morning I was thinking that God didn’t have to create this world with the order that we experience. It could have been designed so that we wake up each morning and don’t know what to expect. Would it be a short day or a long one? Would it be cold or hot with no semblance of seasons? Would we be able to grow crops or would there even be a growing season? Yet God didn’t leave us to wonder; He created the world so that it has order with seasons and moon cycles and even years. I think that God had a purpose in having a new year every 365 days. First it is a way for us to keep track of time, but it also gives us an occasion for new beginnings, a time for change and a time to start new habits or to eliminate old ones. It’s also a time to put away the past, to get rid of the negative things from the year that has ended. I’m n...