I am sooooooo grateful I have made it to November 2025. I have also made it to the month I turn 60. 60 used to seem so old to me… and now it doesn’t seem so bad.

November is the month for gratitude and remembering. Remembering all the things that God has brought us through in years past and being grateful for his mercy, love and grace.

In Genesis Chapter 8: 1-4 – it says that God remembered Noah, and all the animals on the ark. He caused a wind to pass over the earth and the waters began to subside.

I live in Colorado and we can get some crazy wind storms that are comparable to a mild Hurricane. It can get quite unnerving sometimes. One time it blew our patio umbrella, on the back deck over the house into the street, in the front of the house. I try not to let strong winds frighten me… but sometimes it does.

As I was reading this passage though, I remembered that God is the source of the wind… and when he says Peace be still – the wind stops. God sent the wind to help the waters subside…He knew that eventually Noah and those animals needed to get out of the Ark and get their land legs back… being on a boat with a strong wind storm passing over… I would be getting quite anxious.

The passage says by the end of 150 days the water had receded quite significantly… 150 days? Then finally the ark came to a rest on the mountain of Ararat. He still had to wait like 5 more months before he could leave the ark.

The ark is a place of protection even though the winds blow and it sometimes seems like it takes forever to get anything done. God remembers us. During this time of furloughs and no SNAP benefits – God remembers us. He has placed us in the ark of protection. It feels like the wind is blowing – we don’t know when we will get our next paycheck, or how we are going to feed ourselves and our family…. But God will get us through…

I am going to cling to this promise in Psalm 37:25 this month – the month I turn 60

Psalm 37:25 I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread.

Gods got our back…

Furloughed, Broke but Never Down

Positively, Debbie