Personal Reminders
Hello!!! :) I am currently sitting in my office, obviously not working, drinking my cup of coffee and getting warmth from my heater under me. :) I really have to go to the bathroom, but am waiting on a phone call here in a couple minutes. So the bathroom must wait. So I thought I would write you.
This journey of growth we call sanctification is becoming a fascination for me. Sometimes a frustration. In my worst moments, I fail miserably. In my better moments, I become so ashamed and humbled at what I have missed. In my best moments, I learn to turn my thoughts around and choose to think positively about what God is doing in my life! :)
Like this morning. Do you know it literally hit me this morning how much God really is blessing me right now---with friends, finances, opportunities, music, etc. For instance. People in my SS school class taking an interest in me: One family having me over, another lady and I are going to do Tea some weekend. (And they are all married---and my singleness doesn't bother them, and their marriages don't bother me!!! Like the one lady would bring her little girl, and asked me if I minded. Why would I mind. All my sisters are married, and one of them has 3 kids. That is what I know and have grown up with!). People like Marina inviting me over. My voice families fighting over who would pay for my tea when we went out. My studio recital. The new student I started. I get to judge for a competition and get paid for it!!! One of my students is going to give my name to her church, because they want a voice instructor to come give some master classes and would pay them! I got a cheap ticket to go see Lang Lang---a 23 year old pianist---at CSO. Marissa had a good lesson yesterday, and has a good shot at competition!
I mean, you know, I can't believe myself sometimes. God really does give us the desires of our hearts!!! Sometimes they just don't come fast enough, or sometimes we are looking for the ultimate, big thing that we want---for me that big break in a career. How many times do I neglect the daily blessings! Wow! When all these things hit me this morning, I was so overwhelmed. And a smile actually came to my face! :) How much God loves me. And yet, when I fail and He has to spank me, does He not love me then too? Part of my devotions this morning focused on being created for eternity, not time (the here and now). And what things last for eternity? My relationship with God. His work around me. The work He involves me in to work out His plan in His world.
And I lost my thought!
Anyway! God is doing so much around me. And sometimes I miss it because I am choosing to not see it, or am so bogged down in selfish thoughts that I can't see it. How much I miss during these times.
What a God! To love me as He does. To put up with me as He does! It brings tears to my eyes.
I wish that I could be the perfect mature christian right now. That each day weren't so inconsistent. But that is why God gave us time here on earth. To establish a relationship with Him in order to grow in Him.
This journey of growth we call sanctification is becoming a fascination for me. Sometimes a frustration. In my worst moments, I fail miserably. In my better moments, I become so ashamed and humbled at what I have missed. In my best moments, I learn to turn my thoughts around and choose to think positively about what God is doing in my life! :)
Like this morning. Do you know it literally hit me this morning how much God really is blessing me right now---with friends, finances, opportunities, music, etc. For instance. People in my SS school class taking an interest in me: One family having me over, another lady and I are going to do Tea some weekend. (And they are all married---and my singleness doesn't bother them, and their marriages don't bother me!!! Like the one lady would bring her little girl, and asked me if I minded. Why would I mind. All my sisters are married, and one of them has 3 kids. That is what I know and have grown up with!). People like Marina inviting me over. My voice families fighting over who would pay for my tea when we went out. My studio recital. The new student I started. I get to judge for a competition and get paid for it!!! One of my students is going to give my name to her church, because they want a voice instructor to come give some master classes and would pay them! I got a cheap ticket to go see Lang Lang---a 23 year old pianist---at CSO. Marissa had a good lesson yesterday, and has a good shot at competition!
I mean, you know, I can't believe myself sometimes. God really does give us the desires of our hearts!!! Sometimes they just don't come fast enough, or sometimes we are looking for the ultimate, big thing that we want---for me that big break in a career. How many times do I neglect the daily blessings! Wow! When all these things hit me this morning, I was so overwhelmed. And a smile actually came to my face! :) How much God loves me. And yet, when I fail and He has to spank me, does He not love me then too? Part of my devotions this morning focused on being created for eternity, not time (the here and now). And what things last for eternity? My relationship with God. His work around me. The work He involves me in to work out His plan in His world.
And I lost my thought!
Anyway! God is doing so much around me. And sometimes I miss it because I am choosing to not see it, or am so bogged down in selfish thoughts that I can't see it. How much I miss during these times.
What a God! To love me as He does. To put up with me as He does! It brings tears to my eyes.
I wish that I could be the perfect mature christian right now. That each day weren't so inconsistent. But that is why God gave us time here on earth. To establish a relationship with Him in order to grow in Him.
posted by Shellie @ 2:21 PM
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