So...after a day of geocaching, then a full day of cleaning my basement, then a day of rain and shopping in preparation for our youngest's first trip away from home this weekend to volleyball camp...today I couldn't exactly get the physical fire going to tackle our cluttered attic.
Anyways, it's Thursday and this morning Lysa TerKeurst came up on one of my subscribed morning devotionals. Gossip and the junk that comes forth from us was the topic. She opened her daily devotional with Philippians 1:9. It worked.
Hubby is home, sleeping now after picket duty...we were up late playing board games and his early morning awakening at 5 AM has taken its' toll. So I felt the urge to stop my messing around from room to room and google the word melancholy. That led me to a whole list of words; pensive, optimistic, listless, quixotic and a few others to boot. The only one I didn't like was exanimate: meaning spiritless.
The succession of words up to that point had meaning. Ironically less than two hours after reading Lysa's devotional and her blog, something happened that usually sends our emotions flying in this household. But this time I didn't feel the offense or bitterness I usually feel. So to put this story in the short version: 1. All is well, we're disappointed but not troubled. 2. I had another reason to explain to my daughter the power of Holy Spirit. 3. This mood I am in led me to finding something in the Scripture.
Every Christmas I have this handmade plaque I did years ago with John 3:16 on it. It's one of my favorite objects to arrange around with greens and silk flowers. But today 1 John 3:16 popped into my head and there it was...the succession of God's love for us.
1 John 3:16
"Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren."
That means laying down our thoughts before God and our tongues.
Thankful I felt a pulling to check something out and putting a quick fix on it!
Thankful I took the time to do something that seemed somewhat foolish.
Thankful my youngest daughter just called on her cell laughing joyously!
Thankful my hubby agreed with me not to go geocaching three days straight next week, so now I have breathing room of another day until the sale next weekend.
Thankful my eldest got to ride a Vespa through a Milan suburb with her wonderful host parent yesterday. How cool is that!
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