Contrasts

So yesterday Roby and I went for a nice ride out in the desert. We were both quite happy because it was a cloudy day, which meant it was cooler. As my mind wandered I realized I was wearing a t- shirt from a favorite place in NYC-- The Strand Bookstore. A friend introduced me to the place many years ago and I've never been the same! This store advertises 18 MILES of books! Can you say HEAVEN??? Anyway, by now the t-shirt has lots of holes in it, but I just can't part with it-- and besides it makes a great barn shirt (can't wear it anywhere civilized!).

So Roby and I are enjoying our morning ride and I started to think about that shirt in comparison to where I was at that moment. On the one hand, the shirt represents a frenzied city with all different kinds of people, food, buildings, activities, etc. Then I took a good look around me-- nothing. Dirt, scrubby bushes, tiny animal holes, the clopclop of Roby's hooves, not a person in sight. I had to smile. Odd that I can love both the energy of New York and the solitude of the desert. How wonderful that God can use both places to grow my faith! How good is God that he uses every phase of our lives to teach us and show us more of who he is. I'm so thankful that he is the same yesterday, today and forever-- doesn't matter where I am because HE never changes. What a relief.

PS-- it began to POUR rain and we made a run for the barn (1 mile?). The rain was so hard I couldn't see and was afraid to let go of the reins to wipe the water off my face! All I could do was laugh and hope Roby would obey when I asked him to stop! He did. What a good boy.