I'm Listening now...You've got my attention...Just breathe. breathe it in, breathe it out. This moment is a miracle... a challenge... a crazy wonder!
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Monday, November 24, 2008
my most favoritest time of day...
My most favorite time of day is usually right after dinner, when I've finished the dishes, cleaned up the kitchen and lit a candle. Usually the little kids are brushing their teeth and laying out their clothes for the next day. It just has this cool feeling to it...but today is different. My favorite time is right now! It's after school, after the rush of kids running toward my car so they don't have to sit in the "way back" (poor little Kelly always loses and has to sit in the back 'cause her back pack is as big as she is!) It's after the homework is done, hot chocolate is finished and dinner is in the oven. It's now, because I hear the laughter of the kids outside my front window building the first snowman of the season. It snowed today...the kind of snow that I remember as a kid. "It's great packing snow", I said casually to the carpool on the way home from our Monday run. That's all it took! I love Michigan first snowfalls. I detest Michigan last snow falls! The sound of kids laughing in the background and rosy cold cheeks makes a crazy day with scattered gloves and hats in the hallway seem all the more exceptional. God looked at this and saw that it was good! The whole Earth is filled with His glory. My whole house is filled with His fingerprints! (and the kids) Although having a perfectly manicured lawn, clean sliding glass windows and empty laundry baskets seems like an impossible thing... one day, I know I will look back and miss this!
When I was a child, I knew joy, pure joy. It was as easy as playing in the snow, building the coolest and most amazing forts with my big brother. We were unbeatable in snowball fights cause we stuck together. He always wanted me on his team. As I look back, I can see why... I WAS the coolest, I WAS the fastest, I COULD take a hard ball in the face and not go running into the house and tattle! ha! That was it! I see this relationship in my younger two kids. It's called loyalty. It's called unconditional love.
God calls us His beloved. I love that. He says to delight yourself in Me and I will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to Me; trust in Me and I will do this: I will make your righteousness shine like the dawn (sunshine glimmering and sparkling off the freshly fallen snow), the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. All who will see you will acknowledge that you are My very own child in whom I have richly blessed. He is my Heavenly Father, my compassion and the God of all comfort when I feel very alone. He turns mourning into gladness and replaces my sorrow for joy. All of this, He will do because He delights in being gracious to me. He is my comfort. He is my Father. He is my God. I am HIS child.
So...this is my favoritest time of day... when my thoughts turn to childhood memories and youthful longings.
My most favorite time of day is usually right after dinner, when I've finished the dishes, cleaned up the kitchen and lit a candle. Usually the little kids are brushing their teeth and laying out their clothes for the next day. It just has this cool feeling to it...but today is different. My favorite time is right now! It's after school, after the rush of kids running toward my car so they don't have to sit in the "way back" (poor little Kelly always loses and has to sit in the back 'cause her back pack is as big as she is!) It's after the homework is done, hot chocolate is finished and dinner is in the oven. It's now, because I hear the laughter of the kids outside my front window building the first snowman of the season. It snowed today...the kind of snow that I remember as a kid. "It's great packing snow", I said casually to the carpool on the way home from our Monday run. That's all it took! I love Michigan first snowfalls. I detest Michigan last snow falls! The sound of kids laughing in the background and rosy cold cheeks makes a crazy day with scattered gloves and hats in the hallway seem all the more exceptional. God looked at this and saw that it was good! The whole Earth is filled with His glory. My whole house is filled with His fingerprints! (and the kids) Although having a perfectly manicured lawn, clean sliding glass windows and empty laundry baskets seems like an impossible thing... one day, I know I will look back and miss this!
When I was a child, I knew joy, pure joy. It was as easy as playing in the snow, building the coolest and most amazing forts with my big brother. We were unbeatable in snowball fights cause we stuck together. He always wanted me on his team. As I look back, I can see why... I WAS the coolest, I WAS the fastest, I COULD take a hard ball in the face and not go running into the house and tattle! ha! That was it! I see this relationship in my younger two kids. It's called loyalty. It's called unconditional love.
God calls us His beloved. I love that. He says to delight yourself in Me and I will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to Me; trust in Me and I will do this: I will make your righteousness shine like the dawn (sunshine glimmering and sparkling off the freshly fallen snow), the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. All who will see you will acknowledge that you are My very own child in whom I have richly blessed. He is my Heavenly Father, my compassion and the God of all comfort when I feel very alone. He turns mourning into gladness and replaces my sorrow for joy. All of this, He will do because He delights in being gracious to me. He is my comfort. He is my Father. He is my God. I am HIS child.
So...this is my favoritest time of day... when my thoughts turn to childhood memories and youthful longings.
Monday, November 10, 2008
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
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