Picture this. Early this morning, about 6:30 to be exact, my girls and I all ended up in my bathroom at the same time. I caught my breath from the morning activity and caught too a surge of energy from above, and decided to put a few curls in my hair. I grabbed a compact mirror to turn around and use it to see the back of my hair in my big bathroom mirror. Banner kept on pulling her hair up. She's focused! Blaise looked at me like I was a total idiot and said WHY DO YOU NEED THAT little mirror, you have your big one?
She had never seen the 2 mirror, back of the hair thing. You can tell Banner and I don't primp much. Blaise was just amazed. Banner and I were too because Blaise is so funny! Blaise had an eye opening lesson. It was unexpected.
I had one too today when I turned on Joyce Meyer. She said "It sure is easy to be nice and happy at church on Sundays, but it's behind closed doors at home that really matters." Ouch! I needed that reminder. With the new school year and the massive amount of homework, dinner, lunch preparation, laundry, dishes, and work here at night, I needed to be reminded that THIS IS IT! The homework, dinner table, backyard ballgames, and time with my family at home is where I really need to ask The Lord to help me. I did that this morning. I requested an extra dose of joy, patience, and energy. My eye opening lesson today was not as much fun as the one Blaise got with the mirrors, but I needed it. Look for your lesson today. Always be willing to be molded, changed, and refined.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Saturday, August 3, 2013
Draw a line
This topic keeps on coming up. In life, no matter your age, income, race, church home, and even stage of your relationship with The Lord, JUNK will come at you! There will be challenges. You will have your feelings hurt, hurt for those you love in need, hurt the feelings of someone else when you have been hurt, and even hurt over things that happened many years ago. We live in a FALLEN world. It's full of JUNK. It's not fair. We live with, work with, go to church with people who are just like us: a mess!!!
What are we going to do? Respond to the junk. Talk back, fuss, fight, tweet back, comment back, go to bed, eat too much, starve, drink excessively, work 24-7, pop a pill, shop, strive to be perfect, or plan an extended vacation to a remote island and "forget" to purchase a return ticket. All of the above and the list can go on and on will not really help us succeed in escaping the junk of the world!
Although a few of those sound ok, they will not fix the junk. I shared this with a group of girls recently. To deal with the JUNK, we need a heart that is sure of our relationship with Jesus. A heart and mind who turn to Him before we turn to our own plans, motives, and "come backs."
David talks about this is in Psalm 86:11.
"Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart that I may fear your name." Sounds good? How do we get an undivided heart? It takes time and discipline. An undivided heart can't be ordered at a drive-thru or even obtained in a session of yoga just taking it all in. An undivided heart is gained by time in the Word and time getting to know Jesus.
Psalm 16:11 has always been my personal encouragement. It says "You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence." I use it often. Excuse the repeats, but I believe time in the presence of The Lord at work, home, in the chaos, in the quiet, in the car, at the sink, in the hallway is the KEY to living life and dealing with the JUNK.
What are we going to do? Respond to the junk. Talk back, fuss, fight, tweet back, comment back, go to bed, eat too much, starve, drink excessively, work 24-7, pop a pill, shop, strive to be perfect, or plan an extended vacation to a remote island and "forget" to purchase a return ticket. All of the above and the list can go on and on will not really help us succeed in escaping the junk of the world!
Although a few of those sound ok, they will not fix the junk. I shared this with a group of girls recently. To deal with the JUNK, we need a heart that is sure of our relationship with Jesus. A heart and mind who turn to Him before we turn to our own plans, motives, and "come backs."
David talks about this is in Psalm 86:11.
"Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart that I may fear your name." Sounds good? How do we get an undivided heart? It takes time and discipline. An undivided heart can't be ordered at a drive-thru or even obtained in a session of yoga just taking it all in. An undivided heart is gained by time in the Word and time getting to know Jesus.
Psalm 16:11 has always been my personal encouragement. It says "You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence." I use it often. Excuse the repeats, but I believe time in the presence of The Lord at work, home, in the chaos, in the quiet, in the car, at the sink, in the hallway is the KEY to living life and dealing with the JUNK.
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