A Love Letter from God

I love you — yes you — so much that it’s almost painful.
Before you were formed I knew you.
I watched you exit the birth canal with glee.
I count every hair on your head as it changes daily.
I know your entire family tree,
who your closest friends are,
all of your dreams and aspirations.
I know what you have done in the past
and what you have yet to do.
I know when and how you depart from this earthly life
and journey to the next.
I know you past, present and future.
And because of that, I love you.
Yes, you — especially you — because you are uniquely, soulfully you.

Photos © Sondra Sula.

Take a walk with me by reading my daily devotional book, Meditations on Mendocino by Sondra Sula. Available on Amazon in paperback or Kindle versions.

If you’d prefer a daily river walk, Reflections on the Fox River and Beyond by Sondra Sula, might just be the book for you.

Still Growing

The town of Thermopolis is known for its hot springs.
In fact, it claims to have the World’s Largest Mineral Hot Spring, which it proclaims boldly on a hillside.
The town even has a gumdrop-shaped rock
that was formed via a vent pipe installed back in 1909.
Due to the “fountain” still exuding water, the rock is continually growing.
I don’t think of rocks as growing; I think of them as eroding —
becoming less —
not more.
As I age, I feel like I am becoming less,
not more.
But what if the Water of Life
is working in me so abundantly that I am overflowing?
Not dried up and useless at all —

instead a reflection of The Source: the ever-flowing circle of past, present and future rolled into one.

Photos © Sondra Sula.

Take a walk with me by reading my daily devotional book,

Take a walk with me by reading my daily devotional book, Meditations on Mendocino by Sondra Sula. Available on Amazon in paperback or Kindle versions.

If you’d prefer a daily river walk, Reflections on the Fox River and Beyond by Sondra Sula, might just be the book for you.

Mammoth Task

Our trip to Yellowstone National Park was almost cancelled a few days before I was set to fly out to meet Rob in Billings, Montana.
My husband’s paleontological field season had been a series of negative events, small and large — and he was only two weeks in.
A couple of years ago a freak blizzard closed all the entrances to Yellowstone and we had to make a death-defying thirteen-hour detour.
Was God trying to tell me something?
Was my plane going down in a fiery plume?
Was I slated to fall off a cliff on one of our hikes?
The day before our trip my husband called with news that the trip was back on.
Well, here goes…
I didn’t panic in Salt Lake City, Utah, when I was still sitting on the plane thirteen minutes before my next flight was boarding. Instead I thought: Delta is going to hold the plane, I just know it. And they did.
When we arrived at the northern entrance to Yellowstone, I expected a long wait, but there were only two cars in front of us.
And when we got to Mammoth Hot Springs, it may have been forty-two degrees with gusty winds and pelting rain, but we found a parking spot easily. And then I stood in awe with the thought: God is good, really, really good. Amazing, in fact.

Photos © Sondra Sula.

Take a walk with me by reading my daily devotional book, Meditations on Mendocino by Sondra Sula. Available on Amazon in paperback or Kindle versions.

If you’d prefer a daily river walk, Reflections on the Fox River and Beyond by Sondra Sula, might just be the book for you.