Do you ever stop and ask, "who am I, that God should love me and bestow His grace on me"? I don't do that often enough. But, I do wonder, with the way I act at times or some things that I do, how does God put up with me? Sometimes we go through our days and whether we voice it or not, we just expect certain things from God. Just like any parent He gives us those things we don't even ask for. How many times do we stop and say thank you? How many things do we recognize what He gives us? How many times at the end of the day do we look back and realize what God has accomplished for us instead of lamenting what we didn't get or what didn't happen? I know I'm not talking to anyone else, I'm the only one that does that, right?
Something I used to hear my husband say all the time: "I just thank God for the precious breath of life, He didn't have to give me today."
Tonight, I am thankful. With all that I feel is going wrong, for tonight I want to recognize what is going right. God did give me the precious breath of life this morning. He gave me a beautiful day. He's given me an awesome family and precious friends. He's provided a roof over my and my family's head and food to eat. He has been faithful and it's my turn to acknowledge Him, in all things. It doesn't matter to God that I acknowledge Him publicly, only that I do realize and appreciate what He has done for me, and I do.
Sometimes I let the worries of the world get me down and I don't fully appreciate what a loving, forgiving, graceful God we serve. I'm the only one that does that too, right?
I've heard it said many times, "when you are down to nothing, God is up to something". How true that is. Also the old cliche, "don't sweat the small stuff". It's all small stuff to God so that means we aren't meant to "sweat" anything. Nothing is to big for our God.
With a meek and thankful heart I thank you God for all You are, all You have done and all You will do in our future, with or without our asking. I remain your humble servant and child. Even at my age, I know You aren't finished with me yet.
Isaiah 40:31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Thursday, March 5, 2009
I Saw God Today
I was listening to this song "I Saw God Today", and it dawned on me, I did see God today. Everywhere I looked actually, though I didn't think of it that way at the time. Sitting here reflecting, I realize that I did. It was a beautiful day today, warm, the sun was shining, a little windy, well okay, a lot windy but it still felt good. It feels good knowing that Spring is almost here. Spring and Fall are my favorite times of the year. Now back to my subject.
I saw God the first time this morning when my daughter brought my 8 month old grandson over, when I went to take him out of his car seat and he started kicking his legs and grinning his little toothless grin at me. His blue eyes shining. He is such a joy. He is truly a gift from God as are all my grandchildren. Each time I see them I see the wonder of God because He made each one of them, each one of them different, and each one of them has a gift from Him that they are too young to realize right now. By the way this is only 6 of our eleven :)
The second time I saw God was when we walked outside
and I saw that I have flowers coming up everywhere in my flower bed, the jonquils have even bloomed. They are beautiful and tilted ever so slightly towards 
Heaven as if they see Him too. They are surrounded by bluebonnets. There are sprouts everywhere and soon my yard will be filled with beautiful tulips, red and yellow, pink naked ladies, marigolds, irises and canna lillies.
The third thing I noticed was the little pink buds coming out on the trees. I wish when the leaves came out those pretty pink buds could stay also but I know those are the promise that the trees are going to leaf soon and be beautiful and green.
The fourth time was the sun, shining so bright, breaking through the clouds. Hard to believe it's so far away and still harder when you realize that God just breathed it into being! What an awesome God we serve. This reminds me of a blog my husband did on the wonder of God. How He has such an eye for beauty and how he gave us so much to appreciate and awe over.
Men have tried for centuries to duplicate those colors and they come close but they are never quite the same.
The fifth time was the sweetest little lady I encountered today, I handed her the daily paper and she smiled at me, said thank you and God bless you. Then she said, "isn't it a great day to be alive?" I think I have to agree with her. Her smile lit up her entire face and she made me happy just having seen her today. (This isn't her or course, I didn't have my camera along or I would have asked to take her picture.)
The sixth and seventh things and most certainly not the least or last, was a red bird and a squirrel. Another promise that spring is just around the corner because we rarely if ever see red birds here in winter, although we do occasionally see the squirrels come out to dig up some of their stored up treasure. Which reminded me of Matthew 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
I did see God today, many more times than what I've listed and it shames me that I don't notice Him everyday in the little things as well as the big. I had to thank Him for all these gifts, how could I not? For me He turned a ho-hum day into a day of promise. When I might have been sad He showed me promise. Promise in my little grandson and all my grandchildren. Promise in the flowers that are blooming, promise in the sun that rose this morning, the sweet smile of a stranger, the beautiful red and easy flight of the red bird, the chattering of the grey squirrel and even the wind that can at least for a little while blow our troubles away if we would only let it. Take time to see God, seek His face. He knows you are there and He's just waiting for you to acknowledge Him. He sees you.
Have you seen God today?
I saw God the first time this morning when my daughter brought my 8 month old grandson over, when I went to take him out of his car seat and he started kicking his legs and grinning his little toothless grin at me. His blue eyes shining. He is such a joy. He is truly a gift from God as are all my grandchildren. Each time I see them I see the wonder of God because He made each one of them, each one of them different, and each one of them has a gift from Him that they are too young to realize right now. By the way this is only 6 of our eleven :)
The second time I saw God was when we walked outside
and I saw that I have flowers coming up everywhere in my flower bed, the jonquils have even bloomed. They are beautiful and tilted ever so slightly towards 
Heaven as if they see Him too. They are surrounded by bluebonnets. There are sprouts everywhere and soon my yard will be filled with beautiful tulips, red and yellow, pink naked ladies, marigolds, irises and canna lillies. 
The third thing I noticed was the little pink buds coming out on the trees. I wish when the leaves came out those pretty pink buds could stay also but I know those are the promise that the trees are going to leaf soon and be beautiful and green.
The fourth time was the sun, shining so bright, breaking through the clouds. Hard to believe it's so far away and still harder when you realize that God just breathed it into being! What an awesome God we serve. This reminds me of a blog my husband did on the wonder of God. How He has such an eye for beauty and how he gave us so much to appreciate and awe over.Men have tried for centuries to duplicate those colors and they come close but they are never quite the same.
The fifth time was the sweetest little lady I encountered today, I handed her the daily paper and she smiled at me, said thank you and God bless you. Then she said, "isn't it a great day to be alive?" I think I have to agree with her. Her smile lit up her entire face and she made me happy just having seen her today. (This isn't her or course, I didn't have my camera along or I would have asked to take her picture.)
The sixth and seventh things and most certainly not the least or last, was a red bird and a squirrel. Another promise that spring is just around the corner because we rarely if ever see red birds here in winter, although we do occasionally see the squirrels come out to dig up some of their stored up treasure. Which reminded me of Matthew 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?I did see God today, many more times than what I've listed and it shames me that I don't notice Him everyday in the little things as well as the big. I had to thank Him for all these gifts, how could I not? For me He turned a ho-hum day into a day of promise. When I might have been sad He showed me promise. Promise in my little grandson and all my grandchildren. Promise in the flowers that are blooming, promise in the sun that rose this morning, the sweet smile of a stranger, the beautiful red and easy flight of the red bird, the chattering of the grey squirrel and even the wind that can at least for a little while blow our troubles away if we would only let it. Take time to see God, seek His face. He knows you are there and He's just waiting for you to acknowledge Him. He sees you.
Have you seen God today?
Thursday, February 19, 2009
What CAN you say when thank you is not enough
What can you say when thank you is not enough? What can you do or say when someone does something for you that is totally unexpected, so monumental to you and such a blessing that it almost blind sides you. How do you express to that person or persons that what they have done and they think is such a small thing or "not much" turns out to be, for you, such a big blessing that you cannot even express yourself you are so overcome by their thoughtfulness and their act of kindness.
I pray. I pray that God will rain showers of blessings on each one of them, that God will bless them over and above the blessings He has given us through them.
Although it may seem at times that no one in the world cares and everyone is out for themselves, there are still good people in this world. People who will go the extra mile to help someone. I'm sure I'm not the only one that has ever thought there just weren't any good people left. Usually those times are when I'm really down and something in my own life has gone wrong or I've come across a particularly ornery person that particular day. Then I realize it's just "my" thinking and "my" problem. Not everyone is that way. Everyone has problems, everyone has a bad day once in a while, sometimes more than others but its nice to know that people do still care, that all is not lost.
What can you say when thank you is not enough? I guess really nothing, but I do wish sometimes that people could see inside my heart so they could know just how much I care about them and just how much I appreciate them and how inadequate I feel because I can't express more than just thank you.
Maybe in time I can repay their kindness or if they don't need anything, maybe I will have the opportunity to pay it forward in memory of what they have done for me. I pray for that also.
For now, I'm stuck with just thank you but I look forward to the day when I can do more. Now I'm going to turn this blog really personal because by first name only I want to publicly thank each of them for what they have done for my husband and I and I'm asking that if you read this and you are a praying person, pray for these people that God will bless them because they truly deserve it. No one asks for their help, they just give it and I know they don't expect anything in return that's what makes what they have done even more special. I want to thank them for letting God use them also, whether they thought that was what they were doing or not, each one of them fulfilled a prayer they had no way of knowing.
And to each of them, should you happen to read this, you know what you have done and I do thank you from the bottom of my heart. Each one of you said, "it's not much but I hope it helps", I want you to know it meant everything to us! It WAS much.
Sharyl, Jessica, Shelley, Sue and Jesse, Quita and Dave, thank you, we love you guys always. I want you to know how much we appreciate you. You didn't (and don't) have to do what you did (and do) for us to love you we already did (do) :) but I still want to say thank you until the time comes when I can do more. I'm not going to list what you did, because that is between you and us but you know and we know and God knows and we will NEVER forget :).
And certainly most of all I thank God, for blessing us with each of you in our lives and for answering our prayers through you. For Jehovah Jireh (God will provide) has never been brought home to me more than it has this week.
I pray. I pray that God will rain showers of blessings on each one of them, that God will bless them over and above the blessings He has given us through them.
Although it may seem at times that no one in the world cares and everyone is out for themselves, there are still good people in this world. People who will go the extra mile to help someone. I'm sure I'm not the only one that has ever thought there just weren't any good people left. Usually those times are when I'm really down and something in my own life has gone wrong or I've come across a particularly ornery person that particular day. Then I realize it's just "my" thinking and "my" problem. Not everyone is that way. Everyone has problems, everyone has a bad day once in a while, sometimes more than others but its nice to know that people do still care, that all is not lost.
What can you say when thank you is not enough? I guess really nothing, but I do wish sometimes that people could see inside my heart so they could know just how much I care about them and just how much I appreciate them and how inadequate I feel because I can't express more than just thank you.
Maybe in time I can repay their kindness or if they don't need anything, maybe I will have the opportunity to pay it forward in memory of what they have done for me. I pray for that also.
For now, I'm stuck with just thank you but I look forward to the day when I can do more. Now I'm going to turn this blog really personal because by first name only I want to publicly thank each of them for what they have done for my husband and I and I'm asking that if you read this and you are a praying person, pray for these people that God will bless them because they truly deserve it. No one asks for their help, they just give it and I know they don't expect anything in return that's what makes what they have done even more special. I want to thank them for letting God use them also, whether they thought that was what they were doing or not, each one of them fulfilled a prayer they had no way of knowing.
And to each of them, should you happen to read this, you know what you have done and I do thank you from the bottom of my heart. Each one of you said, "it's not much but I hope it helps", I want you to know it meant everything to us! It WAS much.
Sharyl, Jessica, Shelley, Sue and Jesse, Quita and Dave, thank you, we love you guys always. I want you to know how much we appreciate you. You didn't (and don't) have to do what you did (and do) for us to love you we already did (do) :) but I still want to say thank you until the time comes when I can do more. I'm not going to list what you did, because that is between you and us but you know and we know and God knows and we will NEVER forget :).
And certainly most of all I thank God, for blessing us with each of you in our lives and for answering our prayers through you. For Jehovah Jireh (God will provide) has never been brought home to me more than it has this week.
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