Monday (cont.): About midway through my afternoon walk the neatest thing happened to me! I had been walking about, almost totally in solitude, and I was playing beautiful music via my I-phone. I remembered a friend of mine, Gela, telling me that when she walks in the woods (out in Ada where she lives), she will sometimes sing and when she does, deer will come close to her!
Well ... I don't have much of a singing voice! But I chose some instrumental violin music to play--they are truly beautiful melodies--and I walked quietly along never expecting to have a deer come charging out of the woods at me! I was so startled that at first, I thought it was a large dog ... so I braced myself and completely missed probably the best shot I had at getting a good photo of it. Rats. It ran off into the woods and I thought that was that.
But I was wrong.
I continued walking along and I turned the music up just a little bit. I know these pictures will not THRILL you because they are taken at a distance. I did zoom in a little bit, but I barely moved a muscle throughout this 10 minutes because I so badly didn't want to scare the deer and have it run away.
This first picture is AFTER the deer nearly ran me over on the pathway and then darted into the woods ... see it in there?
But I didn't give up! I waited and waited, and quietly followed as it walked through the trees and right out into this clear pathway!
The picture below is the same as the one above; except I was able to crop it and zoom a little farther with my computer photo program (Photoscape ... basically Photoshop for "dummies").
And look! A little friend joined my fawn!
Here they are, walking together ... aren't they beautiful?
Ah--but FINALLY, she turned and looked right at me! She did!
She stood still like this for just a few minutes while I just held the shutter down on my camera hoping I would at least catch ONE good picture of her!
I love this picture!
A very long time ago (years), Emma and I were having a conversation about heaven. She was very discouraged about her life in general, and she brazenly told me that looking forward to heaven was fine and good--but wouldn't it be nice to have just a little bit of that happiness and wonder right down here on earth ... like RIGHT NOW?!! Sigh. Yes. It surely would be nice. I remember thinking a lot about that conversation and how the Lord led me to Psalm 23 later that night ... "Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever." Yes. So true. His goodness and His mercy HAVE followed me right in the here and now, and every single day. I love this verse too: "I am confident I will see the LORD's goodness while I am here in the land of the living." Psalm 27.13 (NLT).
This walk in the woods TODAY ... was God's goodness to me. Such a gift of love.
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