A Room with a View

Want to see what I get to enjoy out my bedroom window these days? When I throw open the window in the morning, our room is filled with the heavy scent of lilacs! This is our view from the west window.

Here’s the view to the north out our balcony window.

And, the view to the east!

And if I step onto the deck outside, I can see our tea room…and Davy, enjoying the morning breeze.

Alan often says he thinks he’s living in the suburbs of heaven. 2009 has been one of the busiest but happiest years of our lives so far, so I can’t help but agree with him. I am so thankful to be living in our little “Tanglewood Cottage” paradise enjoying the beauty of God’s nature all around us. What a privilege and gift! Still, life at it’s kindest and fullest is fringed with pain and sorrow…even when not our own, in the lives of some who are very near and dear to us. As I thank the Lord for all He’s allowing me to enjoy today, I am also comforted to know that someday all who accept His gift of life in Christ will be taken up to heaven and enjoy an eternity of wonderful “rooms with views” as part of the family of God in our Father’s house!

“Let not your heart be troubled; ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions (abiding places); if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also.

“Thomas saith unto him, ‘Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?’

“Jesus saith unto him, ‘I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.’”