SHEILA BOUCHARD

It feels like it has been a while since I have posted a blog post. What do I have that could be worthy of your reading? Sometimes that is the question that I ask myself and honestly, I am not sure I have an answer.

The truth is it has been winter around here. Thankfully, spring is approaching! Even as I think about winter, I think about the bear in hibernation. Not much outward activity, resting for what lies ahead – maybe that is the season some of us have been in?

Some of us have been taken down by sickness. The never-ending cycle of our little ones bringing home the next latest bug that has gone around school, sharing it with our close family and friends, because, we have been taught to share, right?!? Lol

Seriously though, some of us may have struggled with other issues. Our special needs kiddos having struggles with things and not having answers, wondering if it will always be like this? Maybe it is a family member who is diagnosed with a seemingly incurable disease. Maybe it is the sudden loss of someone we love? Maybe it has just been the lack of sun and energy waning from not knowing a direction to go in.

Look around. Here in New England, winter feels like bare trees, a lack of beautiful flowers, and no green grass. The ground is hard. For those who do not like cold, it speaks of staying warm.

Although I have not written much, things are never dull or boring here. I shared my list of things I must do recently with my husband, and he was overwhelmed, lol!

I am trying to finish my audiobook despite battling laryngitis this winter. Ugh! I finally finished the reading edits at the studio on February 19th, and I am waiting for the producer to finish the end of it before launching it on Audible.

As I think about my book, I have asked myself what some things are I hope people will take away from it. I have not had real clarity on it before, as it is my memoir, originally written for my family. The truth is, there is something in it for everyone and so I have been trying to pinpoint exactly what I hope the reader will take away from it.

There are two things I hope you, the reader, will take from it. The first is that God desires a relationship with all of us and desires that we get to really know Him. The second thing I hope you take away from my story is that He sees you, really sees you, no matter where you are on this journey called life. Not in a scolding way, as some of us may have pictured from our youth, but in a loving way and that He is with you on this journey, if you invite Him in. There are so many stories throughout the Bible of people being seen and found by God. Those stories have given me hope in my life. That is my prayer, even as you venture to read anything I write, that it would give you hope for your own life.

As spring is quickly approaching, hopefully, you will begin to experience the refreshment that comes with it. Let God breathe fresh life once again into your lungs and surroundings. I hope that if you have felt dormant or the winter season has left you feeling drained, you will hold onto hope that the winds and rains of refreshing are coming. Things will not always feel this way! Once again, just like the flowers popping through the ground, you too will experience laughter and refreshing.

You, too, are seen and found. You, too, are loved!! It is a new day!