10/15/2026
To my eyes, this image is magnificent! You won’t see it that way. A picture doesn’t do it justice, but here is an unedited, phone taken picture so it can be shared. This is the view we get to see every day as we come and go from the many workings of our kingdom outpost here at the Renovation House.
It helps to remind me that God is doing beautiful things even in the seasons that I feel like I am losing something or things aren’t going quite how I would prefer them to go. I can miss so much by focusing on the loss instead of the intentional journey of growth and change that God has placed me on. He is doing it all for our good.
In a couple weeks, I’m sure I will be complaining that the trees look dead, everything is gross, brown and the beauty is gone. I’m going to try to do my best to remember the beauty of the moments that we have right now and that sometimes for us to truly live in our full potential things have to die so we can come back even stronger.
Ecclesiastes says that God has made everything beautiful in its time. I thank God for that! I don’t always love all of the times that God sets before me to walk-through. Even when I know He set the path and He is with me.
Take some time today to notice the beauty and the pain that you have in your life. (Not just the trees, not just what you see with your eyes ) God is doing something magnificent with it all even if you can’t see it right now. Trust Him. If he works such beauty every year with the trees and the flowers, that we see with our eyes? What greater eternal things is he doing in you?
If you have an extra minute, consider God‘s hand in your life through this section of scripture in Ecclesiastes 3:
“To everything there is a season,
A time for every purpose under heaven:
A time to be born, And a time to die;
A time to plant, And a time to pluck what is planted;
A time to kill, And a time to heal;
A time to break down, And a time to build up;
A time to weep, And a time to laugh; 
A time to mourn, And a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, And a time to gather stones;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to gain, And a time to lose;
A time to keep, And a time to throw away;
A time to tear, And a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, And a time to speak;
A time to love, And a time to hate;
A time of war, And a time of peace.
He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.”
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, 11 NKJV
*AI was not used at all in this post.
