"Leaf" Me Alone!

Today is such a gloomy day...

Both inside and out...

I needed to do something physical

while I waited for word about my brother...

So I headed out to the

 leaf pile with the rake...

Each autumn

we bag up the leaves to use as insulation

for the chicken coop and foundation...

In the spring...

We take these bags 

and place the leaves in our mulch pile

to help make soil for the gardens...

Could you please rake up some juicy bugs???

I know that I shouldn't worry about Gary...

  "Do not be anxious about anything,

 but in everything by 

prayer and supplication 

with thanksgiving let your requests

 be made known to God."

 Philippians 4:6

And I know that Satan

just uses worry to keep us from

trusting in and turning to God...

"Casting all your anxieties on him, 

because he cares for you."

 I Peter 5:7

But waiting is always the hardest part...

"And which of you by being anxious 

can add a single hour to his span of life? "

Matthew 6:27

And so,

as I work out my frustration 

with this rake...

I am just praying that

 Satan will

"leaf" me alone..

"...for I have learned,

 in whatsoever state I am, 

therewith to be content."

 Philippians 4:11b

Well, at least,

my "ladies" are content!

 

Update on my brother 
as of this afternoon...

 It's hard to believe that this
morning I was raking leaves...

And this evening we may be shoveling snow...

We have received a call about my brother...
The results of the biopsy
revealed bone cancer...

Thank you all so much for your 
continued prayers throughout the day...

We are trusting that the Lord
will be with us through the road ahead...