Archive for January, 2010
Philippians 4:13 “I am able to do all things through him who gives me strength.”
Have You Rested This week?
“For the man who comes into his rest has had rest from his works, as God did from his.” – Hebrews 4:10
Rest, It Does a Body Good
It’s important to take care of our bodies and allow them rest so that we can continue living a full life. I know this now more than ever. If I push myself too much I will relapse with pain and depression.
I did not rest well last night. I am paying the price today. I’m dreaming of sleeping as soundly and sweetly as my grand daughter was in this picture taken a few years ago.
Remember to take God’s example and rest. It’s part of His healthcare package! 
This is a short blog post. I’m spending time with my grand daughters today. – Like the picture of my middle grand daughter shows, thumbs up!
Even though it’s rained only one day this week, it’s rained in my heart every day. I’m amazed at how the words I’ve felt were written by a fellow home school mom at Do You Weary Like I Do?
A post by Mel at Four Perspectives helped me see that I’m not alone when it comes to feeling isolated, or crying and learning to deal with my inner emotions, either.
And as I used the raindrops and tears to iron out a few home school mom problems, I see I am again, not the only one who sees that it’s all God’s plan for my children that matters, not just what my expectations for them are at Amy’s Humble Musings.
I am thankful that I get to read what awesome ladies write that is on my heart, when mine is too heavy to utter the words, and am once again stunned into silence as I am ministered to by other’s blogs.
Sometimes I feel like the dial of my spiritual radio has been bumped. Have you had days like that? My thots are going like this:
I’m listening for Your voice God, I really am. Unfortunately all I hear is static – the thots are running around in my head unchecked, like little kids cracked out on sugar. No control, no patterns, just chaos.
Please quiet my thots, Lord, and help me tune into You. I am asking for a peaceful and controlled mind. One that is bringing all ideas under Your authority.
This rainy day is a reflection of my inner dreariness. The tears I’ve cried are like the drops of rain, never ending, just keep coming, like a torrent of pain and sadness that won’t shut off……
I seem to have had a ‘relapse’ and feel like I’m back at square one with pain, fatigue and malaise. Since I have the blogging habit firmly established and don’t want to break it, yet am too foggy headed to write, I’m embedding a praise song, “From the Inside Out”. I’m praying for healing as I listen to this song. It is also my prayer that you are blessed from the inside out with this awesome song and it’s lyrics.
May blessings overflow for you!
Till Tomorrow,
Cee
Happy memories can be made even in crisis times. Let me explain. Saturday morning started benign enough. My teen daughter was making biscuits for breakfast and simply opened the oven door to take out the finished morsels. Suddenly, we were accosted with the sound of angry smoke detectors all over the house. We had a devil of a time getting the smoke detectors to shut off and STAY off! We opened all the windows and doors, which worked for a minute, and then they started gain. We then turned the house fan on, leaving the windows and doors open, but that helped only for 30 seconds or so. The obnoxious noisy things wouldn’t get the hint that everything was OK in the house. Finally my husband had to take a broom and bump the offending alarm that kept re-sounding the others. That did the trick.
Then later that day I find a Face Book post by my daughter:
“I’m a real woman now!!!! I cooked a meal and the smoke detector was my timer!!! I mean EVERY detector in my house went off!!! The awesome thing was the biscuts weren’t burnt!!”
I haven’t made the smoke detectors go off that often. However, I’ve made jokes about it when I have! For example, I call Di Giorno pizza “De-Burn-o” because when I made it once, I forgot to set the timer. It DID make the smoke detectors go off. We’ve laughed about it for years.
In life, we will have those ‘burning moments’ where there is no other thing to do but laugh. The secret to living successfully through those moments is, knowing this embarrassing moment doesn’t change our value. We are still precious treasures to our Lord. Nothing can take that away from us.
Thank You Lord, that the value You have ascribed to me is not depreciating!
Jesus is talking to his followers:
Matthew 6:25-27 “Therefore, I tell you, don’t be anxious for your life: what you will eat, or what you will drink; nor yet for your body, what you will wear. Isn’t life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 See the birds of the sky, that they don’t sow, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns. Your heavenly Father feeds them. Aren’t you of much more value than they? 27 Which of you, by being anxious, can add one moment to his lifespan?”
This is one of the verses used in today’s worship services at Grace Point. It is so comforting to me that God has everything under control. I am more valuable than anything I can ever purchase, and worrying about whether I have anything adds nothing to my life. My job is to enjoy God and His creation. He will take care of the rest.
Mark 2:27 “And He (Jesus) said to them, ‘The Sabbath came into being for man’s sake, and not man for the Sabbath’s sake.’ ”
Resting is God’s GIFT to us; not a law, not an obligation, not a religious do or don’t, but a gift.
Shabbat Shalom! Happy Rest!
I’ve really had a Negative Nelly attitude this week. I’ve been beating myself up for it because normally I’m pretty upbeat. Do you ever find yourself feeling negative and feeling guilty about it?
As I read my Bible today, I realized something. There was a Negative Nate disciple named Thomas. It gave me great relief to know that Jesus actually had someone in His inner circle while here on earth that wasn’t as cheery as the others all the time. He even said some pretty messed up things.
To fill you in Reader’s Digest style, Jesus had been staying out of site because the church leaders wanted to kill him, but his friend Lazarus just died. Jesus was going to have to go back into the city where his enemies were to bring Lazarus back to life. When his disciples were told about this, ole Tom made a comment:
John 11:16 “Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus (Twin), said to his fellow disciples, ‘Let’s go also, that we may die with him’.” (WEB)
Jesus let Tom feel what ever he wanted to, didn’t feed into the depression or sad thoughts, didn’t try to cheer him up but kept on the course He knew God wanted for him.
It’s a gentle reminder to me that yes there will be times I’m in a yucky mood. But if I just keep the course that I know God wants of me, better moods will be ahead of me.
The point I’m making is this: It’s ok to have those negative moods. If we acknowledge them, but still go on about our day, they seem to pass and the day works out for the best.
Heavenly Father, thank You for “ah-ha” moments
during my Quiet Times with You.
Thank You for showing me that even
Your inner circle of friends had wet rag moods.
Help me keep my eyes on You so that
my down moments only last a short time.
