photo #173825

July 3, 2007. I was 40 years old, living in a barn apartment in Spicewood, Tx on 17 acres. My life took a HUGE pivot here when a relationship ended forever... in rejection. I had nothing left. My kids were living with their dad and I had only a rescue dog and a free farm kitty (to kill rodents), and a friend let me share his horse, my way of coping with my crumbled life. In the midst of trial, this place was a retreat. I loved this place and made some great memories here; and I also left behind a whole lotta hurt, tears, and pain. But God is the Restorer of brokenness and loss. He is the Healer of pain. He is the Deliverer of all and the Manifester of promises, even the ones we have forgotten. I would never have made it through, could have ended up on a completely different and wrong path, had He not held me, had His promises (or my momma's and dad's prayers) ever failed. I am so grateful that the LOVE of my life keeps me, restores, delivers, calls me His own, sees me as perfect, without blemish, filled with His given potential. He has turned my mourning to dancing, my sorrow to joy, my brokenness to wholeness, my darkness to light, my loss to gain, rejection to acceptance without agenda. He has set my feet on the course that He planned for me and He lights my path. I am so very, very grateful to my God for all He has done. He is so good to me.