They keep chipping painted things and one still hasn't learned very well but to scribble on freshly painted, clean, new walls . . . Oh, well . . . Someone had to be first . . .
Two years ago we were just starting on the plumbing . . .
I have been making lists of grateful things each day that affect me . . . Like the stuff that in I naturally am NOT grateful for! I give thanks in and for that hard thing, annoying thing, frustrating thing and in faith believe it to be good good gift to me because it passed by Good and came through His hands . . . Everything in my life does . . . The good, the bad, the mediocre . .
Ultimately it all comes from or is allowed by God ( read Job). . . And it is up to new to accept and praise Him for it ALL!
This act of faith and praise had been so refreshing to my heart this year already!!!
Our lives are a work in progress and just like I long for out house to be completely finished, even more so God longs for me to be vulnerable and open and soft to His molding and shaping . . . At least if I want to be like Christ . . . And I do desire Him . . . What about you?
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That's a cute picture of your girlies under the table. I remember when grandson Austin was little like that he was crazy about bridges. So he would pretend that our coffee table was a bridge and we would go under it to eat our popcorn. Obviously, all of me did not fit under the bridge!
Thanking God for even the hard things has been a life time conviction of mine. We were in our mid-twenties when my sister gave us a book to read that really impacted me regarding that. But I can't remember the title! In my NIV Bible Psalm 50:23 reads "He who sacrifices thank offerings honors Me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God." I believe that thanking Him for the hard things moves the heart of God to show us what He can do about it. But some of those hard things take a long time of just plain old thanking Him for without seeing any move or salvation of God. I'm falling asleep as I write, so I'd better stop before i make no sense at all.
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