Seek the Lord and His strength & presence !

One of the readings I did this morning reminded me of 1 Chronicles 16:11 "Seek the Lord and His strength, seek His presence continually."

In this season of my life, and my recovery journey I am reminded every moment of every day how much I rely on Jesus and seek His presence daily in joy and in pain.

It was a rough night I got about 2 1/2 hours sleep and was up at 1:30 am and I was unable to get back to sleep. I was hoping to make the sunrise, but I am moving a bit slower these days and ended up missing the sunrise by a 7 minutes.

But what a blessing when I opened the around 6:20 am to a beautiful cool morning breeze. And I am so grateful that I got to enjoy that cool breeze in the Backyard Oasis with my readings and meditations and a delicious iced espresso.

I got in a little PT with a light walk around the vegetable garden, grape arbor and rose gardens and picked our first roma tomato and a few roses for the Blessed Mother.

A start to a beautiful day and a reminder that everything is gonna be okay!! And in fact everything is totally okay.

So I had to attach one of my favorite songs to my Facebook reel of my walk in the Oasis this morning, "Okay" by Forrest Frank.

I've been singing is around the house along with his song Thankful and every time my beloved runs an errand these days he hears the song on KLove and when he gets home reminds me " I heard your song today" What can I say it has a cook tune and an awesome refrain.

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