{"id":804,"date":"2009-09-10T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2009-11-07T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T04:08:09","slug":"the-fog-august-9-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/the-fog-august-9-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fog, September 10, Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

James 4:8<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Fog

Fog settling in over the yard.<\/p><\/div>\n

Tuesday\u00a0morning the kids and I awoke to fog surrounding the house and neighborhood.\u00a0 Looking out our early morning windows we could scarcely see the dim yellow of the street lights peaking out from their posts.\u00a0 As the kids ran outside backpacks on ready for the walk to school they were full of questions about the settling fog.\u00a0 Hands in the air feeling the moisture but not really seeing it except from a distance.\u00a0 It was mysterious.\u00a0 Spencer said, “It is a cloud that has touched down.”\u00a0 Jake asked, “Are we walking through a cloud?”\u00a0 Anna said, “You can’t even see the school building from here, it is lost in all the fog”.\u00a0 The walk was full of curiosity and exploration running through the fog to see if anyone of them could catch it.<\/p>\n

As Jake and I wandered home from dropping the kids off at school we took a picture of the fog, the one you see above.\u00a0 Fog is so much like our faith.\u00a0 We have faith even though we cannot see God, or touch Him.\u00a0 We can feel His presence like the moisture in the air about us but it will not puddle in our hands.\u00a0 We get lost inside the fog and can only see what is right in front of us like the branches of the trees you see in the forefront of the picture.\u00a0 When looking out a distance you just have to believe that the trees that were there before the fog still exist in the same place.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With God you just have to believe because your physical senses will most likely never witness God here on Earth.\u00a0 Your soul recognizes God and feels His presence when you open your heart and mind to believing.\u00a0 Your soul let’s you look beyond the fog and know with all that you are that God does exist and He\u00a0is right there waiting for you in the distance where we cannot reach with our human hands.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

How many times are we reaching endlessly trying to grasp an understanding for what we cannot understand?\u00a0 How is it that we are standing in a cloud but cannot\u00a0see it?\u00a0 How many times are we asking for help for our lives but we don’t ask God instead we turn to the things of this earth to help us?\u00a0 If we listen to our hearts, minds and souls in the silence they will direct you to\u00a0God.\u00a0<\/p>\n

God is right there in the moisture of that cloud that surrounds you, He is also beyond the\u00a0fog in the trees you cannot see for\u00a0He has never moved from you since the day\u00a0He created you He has been right there.\u00a0 Today\u00a0as you stand in that fog that weighs you down take a few moments to be in silence listen to your heart, your mind and your soul and pray this thought over and over again until you know with faith that it is true: “Draw near\u00a0to God and He will draw near to you.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” James 4:8 Tuesday\u00a0morning the kids and I awoke to fog surrounding the house and neighborhood.\u00a0 Looking out our early morning windows we could scarcely see the dim yellow of the street lights peaking out from their posts.\u00a0 As the kids ran outside backpacks on ready for the walk to school they were full of questions about the settling fog.\u00a0 Hands in the air feeling the moisture but not really seeing it except from a distance.\u00a0 It was mysterious.\u00a0 Spencer said, “It is a cloud that has touched down.”\u00a0 Jake <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[24,205,20,122,207,22,101,208,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}