sometimes i just don't feel like blogging. sometimes i blog to make me look like a good christian. sometimes the week speeds by and i didn't learn anything worth blogging about. sometimes i make something up just to keep up my good christian image. but life is real. sometimes life is hard. sometimes the needs of the day make me so tired that it is much easier to go to bed without kneeling to pray. sometimes skies are grey and it is much easier to wish the day was over without doing anything important.
and so i am laying here on my bed thinking of all the things i should be doing while the kids are having quiet time but because of the grey skies i don't feel like doing school or devotions or anything of importance. and so i sit on facebook. facebook is my past-time that is a time-eater. it seems like i have enough "energy" for facebook but not enough energy for God. how dumb. how selfish.
but with God's help, my dear little cousins are teaching me SO much without even know it!
everyday, they wake up with such enthusiasm. throughout the day, in whatever we are doing, they are excited. after quiet time, they can't wait to start playing again and they dread bed time because they have to calm down and stop having fun.
even if skies are grey, they are full of smiles. even during the rain, they are filled with joy. in whatever they are doing, they do it to the best of their ability and with 100% energy.
and this reminds me of something that we did a few weeks ago despite the grey clouds and rain.
it was monday, the day that they treat as their sabbath and that they do something fun and different. we had been planning for a while that this particular monday we would go the lake. and you guessed it. it was raining but we decided to go anyway and maybe it wouldn't be raining at the lake because it was 3 hours away. and so we packed up midst the rain, jumped into the car and the kids were so excited to be going to the lake even in the rain!
when we got there the skies were grey and it was sprinkling but we were NOT to be deterred! even though the locals probably thought we were crazy and even though i thought we were crazy, we all put on our bathing suits and went swimming in the rain (thankfully there was not thunder or lightning)! the lake is spring-fed and so it was nice and warm even warmer than the air! we had such a great time and had the whole lake to ourselves!
and the whole time my cousins were laughing and swimming and playing and having a grand 'ole time despite the weather and the 'not-so-fun' conditions.
...okay, so back to the grey skies of today. sometimes, it is hard to make the grey skies and the rainy day as fun as that one day at the lake. and like i said before, sometimes you just don't feel like it. but in Psalm 118:24 it says,
"TODAY is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it."
it just hit me. this verse doesn't say "...let us rejoice 'if we feel like it' and be glad..." and it doesn't say "' most days' are the day that the Lord has made..." it says "TODAY is the day that the Lord has made. LET US rejoice AND BE GLAD in it."
each and every day is a day that God has made for you. even the days with grey skies and rain. they are each a gift from God Most High to you.
but to be honest, some days it is easy to forget and to go on facebook and to waste my time and to forget to pray all the while keeping up a "good image." those are the times when i have to remind myself that today is a gift. "my" time really is not my time. it's God's time and it's God's day; it all God's!
"Dear Father, please forgive me for wasting the gifts that You give me each day. I pray that Your Spirit that is living inside of me will convict me when i am wasting Your time. Please also fill me with Your joy and enthusiasm each day even when skies are grey. In Jesus' Name, Amen."
everyday, they wake up with such enthusiasm. throughout the day, in whatever we are doing, they are excited. after quiet time, they can't wait to start playing again and they dread bed time because they have to calm down and stop having fun.
even if skies are grey, they are full of smiles. even during the rain, they are filled with joy. in whatever they are doing, they do it to the best of their ability and with 100% energy.
and this reminds me of something that we did a few weeks ago despite the grey clouds and rain.
it was monday, the day that they treat as their sabbath and that they do something fun and different. we had been planning for a while that this particular monday we would go the lake. and you guessed it. it was raining but we decided to go anyway and maybe it wouldn't be raining at the lake because it was 3 hours away. and so we packed up midst the rain, jumped into the car and the kids were so excited to be going to the lake even in the rain!when we got there the skies were grey and it was sprinkling but we were NOT to be deterred! even though the locals probably thought we were crazy and even though i thought we were crazy, we all put on our bathing suits and went swimming in the rain (thankfully there was not thunder or lightning)! the lake is spring-fed and so it was nice and warm even warmer than the air! we had such a great time and had the whole lake to ourselves!and the whole time my cousins were laughing and swimming and playing and having a grand 'ole time despite the weather and the 'not-so-fun' conditions....okay, so back to the grey skies of today. sometimes, it is hard to make the grey skies and the rainy day as fun as that one day at the lake. and like i said before, sometimes you just don't feel like it. but in Psalm 118:24 it says,
"TODAY is the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it."
it just hit me. this verse doesn't say "...let us rejoice 'if we feel like it' and be glad..." and it doesn't say "' most days' are the day that the Lord has made..." it says "TODAY is the day that the Lord has made. LET US rejoice AND BE GLAD in it."
each and every day is a day that God has made for you. even the days with grey skies and rain. they are each a gift from God Most High to you.
but to be honest, some days it is easy to forget and to go on facebook and to waste my time and to forget to pray all the while keeping up a "good image." those are the times when i have to remind myself that today is a gift. "my" time really is not my time. it's God's time and it's God's day; it all God's!
"Dear Father, please forgive me for wasting the gifts that You give me each day. I pray that Your Spirit that is living inside of me will convict me when i am wasting Your time. Please also fill me with Your joy and enthusiasm each day even when skies are grey. In Jesus' Name, Amen."
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