Another really emotional day for me today...this is so unusual...but I am sure it will pass.

As I sit here I am serenaded by the fragrance of some of the most beautiful flowers that have ever stood in a vase in my house...and I am thankful for a husband who thought of me.

I was reading about Jonah today...and what I found the most interesting was that because of Jonah's mistake and his eventual owning up to it a lot of people worshiped God. It is good to know that even when we are total bone heads in life that God STILL brings goodness out of it. I tend to be REALLY hard on myself and pretty much try to toe the line in every instance...but it is good to know that even when I fall down that things are still redeemable...I am redeemable...others are redeemable...God can and does show Himself in many ways...

I also started reading in Hosea today...talk about a lesson from unfaithfulness...Hosea really helped me through some hard times in the past...and now he has come around again...to show me just how much God loves us and brings us back no matter what we have done...unfaithfulness, besides death, has to be one of the most heart wrenching things to deal with in life...yet there is so much that can be learned through it...so much that can change in a heart when one forgives one of the most unforgivable acts of another...it is amazing how redemptive forgiveness can be...not only for the receiver but for the extender as well...I sometimes wonder if it is actually not more of a miracle in the heart of the one who has done the forgiving than the one who has received it...it changes you forever...