Daydream Designs by Diane: God Is More Than Enough!

Recently our family celebrated the second anniversary of my grandsons' arrival from the Philippines. They had been waiting for over a year after my son married their mother to rejoin her here in the United States. It seemed like it took forever to complete all the complicated steps of their legal immigration paper work. Finally the day arrived, the plane was on the way and the entire family waited with breathless anticipation for the boys and their mother to walk through the airport gate. The boys and my son had skyped many times, so they knew each other, but this moment would be a once in a lifetime moment. They would meet for the first time face to face. I expected the boys, 7 and 10, to be shy and a bit reticent when the moment to meet actually arrived. Imagine our surprise and delight when they came through the gate, immediately laid eyes on my son and broke out in a full run shouting with complete abandon, "Daddy, Daddy." They opened their arms wide and both simultaneously jumped up into his strong, waiting embrace. As you may well imagine, there wasn't a dry eye in the terminal.

Our heavenly Father waits with strong and open arms to receive us whenever we need Him. He will never turn us away. Sometimes we are at a distance, communicating with Him, believing Him. Then there are those times when we need to run to Him with complete abandon, call out His name and jump into those arms to be near His heart and feel His protective embrace around us. He delights our in our need of Him.

God is always ready to accept our need of Him and work on our behalf. He is always accessible and always moving in our lives for our good. He watches over us, stands at our right hand, intimately knows us and our need. He will neither slumber nor turn from us. He will always have eyes to see us and arms to hold us.

Since Jesus instructed His disciples, believers have experienced trouble here on this earth. In fact, He said the world would hate us. Christian brothers and sisters are being tortured and killed in some parts of the world just because they are believers. Even here in our country, we see contempt and intolerance for Christians growing. We need not fear. God is for us, He moves toward us to keep us in His arms, and we can trust that God is more than enough for anything we face. He may not remove trouble from us, but we can rest assured He will hold us through it all.

For these pages I used chalks to color the background, SU inks for stamping and Copics for coloring. I set my work with hairspray so the chalks wouldn't dust off. I combined the following Sweet 'n Sassy stamps. More will be released this month and you will absolutely love them for Bible journaling.