Today is going
to be a little different. Instead of
posting each day’s entire journal entry I’m going to pull one or two sentences
from July 20-24, 2003 and see what God does with that.
“Church was good. Home-lonely again-Sunday’s are hard.”
“E-mailed my friend from RV-talked about my relationships with people out there-hope she understood. Got resume’ ready and e-mailed it to my workplace mentor.”
“I heard from a friend of Pat’s whose been where I am…God is bringing people into my life.”
“Another sad Wednesday. I think Satan attacks to try and keep me from Bible study but I will not let him win. Pat called-she is coming Friday-I am so looking forward to it."
“Better today. I am still sad-I believe I am in the deep grief stage. Tanya had a flat on the way to work and Roger took good care of her. She commented on the difference-said H. would have yelled and been upset. Roger was calm and helped her be okay. I’m so thankful he is good to her!”
When I started
choosing sentences for red (difficult) or green
(blessing) I noticed how there was some of both every day. It made me think about how too often even
today I say a day was terrible, bad, good, or great and everything in
between. No day is all one
adjective. No matter what I may be
experiencing God daily brings grace, peace, love, and mercy in the midst of the
trials.
Each day is a
gift from God made to be experienced to the fullest extent possible. That means embracing the good and bad, easy
and difficult, blessings and trials. All
of these circumstances that God allows into my life are being used to transform
me to the will of God.
After all, scripture doesn’t say
that God only works in the pleasant or easy things of life.
In fact, I’ve learned more about
God and myself through the painful difficult times than I have in the painless carefree
moments. I’m just grateful that in His mercy
and love God sends God winks that I do not deserve in the midst of hardships I
do deserve. He owes me nothing; He’s
given me everything. For that I am
eternally grateful!
I guess the
lesson from today is to not label a day as good or bad or anything else. Just thank God for each experience and
lessons learned. This IS the day He has
made and I WILL rejoice and be glad in it!
Father,
Thank You for trials
and blessings.
Without them I would
not know You and Your love, mercy, grace, and peace.
Remind me daily to see
You in each circumstance
so that I can be transformed to be more like Jesus.
In His Name I pray,
Amen
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