A Sense of Childlike Wonder

Truth be known, He owns and created the skies and every piece of what we saw today, and He still wants my heart.

Something about today put me back into a sense of childlike wonder. And I believe that God yearns for us to slow down and to have eyes and a heart that feels complete admiration over something that he so beautifully created and destined to be.

 

We got to explore our back yard today, literally, our back yard. As the springtime sun is beginning to warm up the earth and the colors are becoming more vibrant, our hearts have also craved a sense of adventure for the newness of this place. It’s like a world that we have yet to explore that sitting right beneath us. And goodness knows our two hearts.. that’s what they beat for.

 

We just happened to stumble upon real silence today and a sacred pause. I think it’s something that we all crave no matter how hectic or slow our lives are. This world teaches us busyness and sometimes it’s necessary to un-teach that very thing.

 

I know simplicity has been a big lesson of trueness and growth in this season, and days like today make me appreciate that precious lesson even more.

 

It was an untouched lake without a soul in sight, just John and I. Fresh soil that most likely hadn’t seen a human foot print since who knows when. The hidden falls rushed down to meet the lake with an expected welcome as the sun trickled through the trees. But the best part was the silence, other than the sweet sound of bird song and rushing waterfalls, it was absolute peace. With every new site that we came upon, the harder my heart seemed to beat.

 

Days like today make me realize that God is seeking us, always. In so many moments in a single day.  In every sunrise, in every blue sky, in every heron that we get to watch ever so gracefully fly by us, in every waterfall that we see peeking out of the earth in the most unexpected place, and in every silent place where I hear His voice whisper, “here I am.”

 

My prayer every morning is “God, show me one thing today that you are in control.” And it never ceases to amaze me how in control that He really is and the ways that he reveals that to me. It just seemed today, that he showed me more than I deserved, in more ways, that He is always in control, the alpha and omega, the creator of it all.

 

 

 

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Welcome to our blog! We’re glad you stopped by and we hope you come back and visit. We want you to be a part of our journey! We are John and Chelsea McLeod. Best friends who are embracing the most precious gift of marriage and life. On the way to be full time missionaries and currently living a life mentoring those broken by addiction from both sides of the pain- loved ones and those struggling with addiction. Here you will find our recorded histories of life, love, struggles, and the journeys that encompass our wanderlust spirits all with an unfailing love for God and His ever so perfect redemption and grace over our lives. Here lies a safe place where our minds wander off into the deepest places with documentation to never be erased. We don’t want our memories to fall between the cracks somewhere, so we write. We don’t want to forget how far God has brought us, so we make records that will prayerfully live on for generations and give others hope who have lost theirs. We met in the most divine of appointments thousands of miles apart that only God could orchestrate. Had our first date watching a fiery sunset go down over the Georgia coast, and ultimately fell in love over kindred spirits that beat for where and what God passionately filled our hearts with. Hindsight, and years later, we can see that God had big plans all along that we couldn’t see. Through our broken pasts, He was preparing us for each other and a future of redemption and testimony. {{{{Everyone has a story and this is ours:}}}}} He’s a Georgia boy, she’s a Carolina girl. ----Hi, I’m Chelsea!---- I’m a native Carolina girl who loves to explore anywhere I’ve never been. An old soul and an extroverted-introvert with a deep heart that overflows with passion and a hunger for God to use me to change this world for the better. Mysterious and meek to the eye, and particularly passionate for the very things that set my heart on fire, especially the things and people that my heart beats for. I get filled up in the untouched outdoors where I can always see and feel His splendor. I am a Master cosmetologist by trade with a BA in Social Work and Counseling. These which intermix daily. I absolutely love the career that God has placed me in and daily, it allows me to love on people all around me. If I can make one person smile a day, my heart holds a fullness that keeps me coming back for more. I believe in forgiveness and miracles because I’ve witnessed them both. I don’t want my life to be about what I accomplished but what God accomplished through me. To me, I’ve learned that in life there is good and bad, right and wrong, excuses and no excuses. But alongside of these very things is engulfed with a ton of grace, growth, and redemption. I don’t ever want to pay the cost of not following my heart, by spending the rest of my life wishing I had. ----Hi, I’m John!---- I’m a born and bred Georgia boy where my blood runs strong with salt water. I was born and raised on the coast where everything I did was engulfed with water and the outdoors. I’m a bold soul with a gentle spirit who loves to help others in any way that I can to believe in themselves and God’s plan over their lives. By trade I hold the title of professional hunter and fisher with a 100 ton captain’s license. What started in Georgia took me out to Alaska where I found my career there, then south Florida and the open blue water. I’ve seen a lot and experienced a lot of God’s beauty and I will be forever grateful for that. Today I’ve taken on the title of “Fisher of men.” After enduring a wearisome season of addiction, God called me to use my pain to help others in addiction ministry and it has become one of the greatest joys of my life. It’s what I live for in showing people they can overcome something that most think they can’t. Offering hope where there is none. Testifying that something they always thought they would be, is only a season that God is ready and wants to use. Where Chelsea serves alongside me pouring into the loved ones. It’s where my passion is, it’s where we love to help others find freedom the same way we did. Today, Chelsea and I are grateful for our struggles because we know that what the enemy meant for evil, God used for good. Here we will write and share. Not to glorify us, but to glorify Him and what He is doing in our lives. The magnificent ways that He is moving and the unfathomable circumstances that He has and will bless us with. All glory goes to Him. We hope you enjoy!!

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