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Previous Challenge Entry (Level 1 – Beginner)
Topic: Hot and Cold (04/09/09)
Time in the Son

I look down and wriggle my soft, white toes, liberated from dark leather shoes and heavy socks. Instead, clad in sunset-orange flip-flops, they have at last emerged to see the light of day. It’s the first “sandal day” of the year. Winter has ultimately lost its grip!
Year after year, sometime in late spring or early summer, I make “the switch.” The closed-toed winter-proof footwear is joyously placed on the closet shelves while the mounds of sandals and flip-flops assume the place of honor on my closet floor.
It never grows old, the expectation of warmth, freedom, and newness flowing up from my bare skin to my soul. This enthralling feeling of abandon sets my heart ablaze with a desire to LIVE! To revel, bask, and delight in the miracle of Creation.
And then comes the peace. I lie down in the fresh-smelling grass, my skin soaking the sun’s rays as I look lazily up into a robins egg-blue dome. Taking in the sensations of summer. I clasp my hands behind my head, close my eyes, and let my mind drift. I am warm. I am safe. I am blessed.
Does it remind me of when I handed my life over to Christ? Coming out of the lonely winter into the newness of light? Flexing my life and personality under the new influence of salvation? Exchanging things of self for things of God? A renewed vitality of purpose lending me a fervor to LIVE? Does it remind me of rejoicing in the awesome presence of Jesus himself? Encountering the peace of forgiveness that goes beyond all understanding? Experiencing every new sensation in Christ? Of resting securely in the One who died for me?
Hot, cold, warm, cool. Summer, winter, spring, fall. He ordained these times in our lives to draw us continually back to Himself.
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Jan Ackerson
04/16/09
Very pleasant springtime devotional.

Spaces between paragraphs would make it easier to read.

Love the pun in your title.
Deborah Porter 
04/25/09
Hi Sarah. I just wanted to leave a quick note to let you know your entry, "Time in the Son," actually did very well in the Hot and Cold Challenge. Although you didn't receive an award, you made it into the Highest Rankings for Level 1, placing 10th in that Level. There were a lot of entries this week, and competition in Level 1 is always very intense, so well done.

If you'd like to check the highest rankings for yourself, you can find them here:
http://www.faithwriters.com/Boards/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=25299

The highest rankings are posted every Thursday evening on the Message Boards.

Again, well done. :-)

Hope to see you at the FaithWriters' Conference in August.

With love, Deb (Challenge Coordinator)