WHEW! Summer is here!!! Love the hot weather but mid nineties is too much. I do notice,however, a significant change in attitude and mood when the weather finally turned nice. My circumstances
are the same..work ,laundry,cooking,dishes .......but life seemed so good compared to so blah. Just the way my kitchen lights up on beautiful summer evenings makes it more enjoyable to work in. The sunshine changes my perspective. Just like knowing Christ changes our perspective on the mundane and the catastrophic events in our lives. Our circumstances don't change but we aren't alone in them and the future has hope. The light has come into the world and the darkness will not overcome it.
Monday, June 30, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Well...I post a note about changes and a big change rolls into Marine View. I mean of course the
imminent departure of the Trainer's. Congratulations to Niel! We will miss them, for who they are and for the contributions and spirit they bring to MVPC. It will be exciting to see what God has in His plans for us and for them. OK. Now that all the PC stuff is said (however sincere and true)can we whine and pout? I have had to say good bye to too many friends over the years. (There was a time I was getting a complex about it..D0n't be my friend you will have to move). God however is so gracious and sometimes brings them back. This past week I was able to get together with a friend I had seen only once in 11 years. It is amazing how some friends you can get together with after so long and it is like no time had passed.The core of the friendship is intact despite years of separate life experiences.Talk about change..she and her family have moved nine times in eleven years. This past school year was the first time her girls attended the same school twice...and we just happen to be taking vacations this summer in Yellowstone THE SAME WEEK! Well gotta go the teen taxi service is required. Please feel free to post your reactions to this latest change. God Bless
imminent departure of the Trainer's. Congratulations to Niel! We will miss them, for who they are and for the contributions and spirit they bring to MVPC. It will be exciting to see what God has in His plans for us and for them. OK. Now that all the PC stuff is said (however sincere and true)can we whine and pout? I have had to say good bye to too many friends over the years. (There was a time I was getting a complex about it..D0n't be my friend you will have to move). God however is so gracious and sometimes brings them back. This past week I was able to get together with a friend I had seen only once in 11 years. It is amazing how some friends you can get together with after so long and it is like no time had passed.The core of the friendship is intact despite years of separate life experiences.Talk about change..she and her family have moved nine times in eleven years. This past school year was the first time her girls attended the same school twice...and we just happen to be taking vacations this summer in Yellowstone THE SAME WEEK! Well gotta go the teen taxi service is required. Please feel free to post your reactions to this latest change. God Bless
Monday, June 9, 2008
Ch-Ch-Changes
"The only thing permanent is change" I read that quote recently but can't remember who said it.
In her comment Sandy mentioned two friends experiencing unwanted changes in their lives.We all face changes not of our choosing. How do we get past the fear ,anger,blame to the place we can allow God to work in the circumstances.
On Job's terrible, awful, really bad day how did he respond?
----Then Job stood up and tore his robe in grief and fell down upon the ground before GOD. "I came naked from my Mother's wound and I shall have nothing when I die. The Lord gave me everything I had and they were His to take away. Blessed be the name of the Lord" Job1:20-21
WOW! Given that Job was informed in a matter of minutes that all he owned and his children whom he loved were gone how did he have that response. Could I? I don't think so. I'd be ranting and raving and blaming the world and God and whatever. I don't react well when my plans and expectations are messed with.I know how i am supposed to react but........
What about you ? How have you learned and grown from changes you did not ask for or want?
In her comment Sandy mentioned two friends experiencing unwanted changes in their lives.We all face changes not of our choosing. How do we get past the fear ,anger,blame to the place we can allow God to work in the circumstances.
On Job's terrible, awful, really bad day how did he respond?
----Then Job stood up and tore his robe in grief and fell down upon the ground before GOD. "I came naked from my Mother's wound and I shall have nothing when I die. The Lord gave me everything I had and they were His to take away. Blessed be the name of the Lord" Job1:20-21
WOW! Given that Job was informed in a matter of minutes that all he owned and his children whom he loved were gone how did he have that response. Could I? I don't think so. I'd be ranting and raving and blaming the world and God and whatever. I don't react well when my plans and expectations are messed with.I know how i am supposed to react but........
What about you ? How have you learned and grown from changes you did not ask for or want?
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