I went for a much needed run yesterday and had many wonderful thoughts along the way. I tried to think about as many things as I could(mainly to push away the thoughts of pain and breathlessness that the run was causing). You know how just when you start to doubt God's goodness, God does something amazing. Well most people would let that blessing be like a gong for all the days to come. Not me...no, I am the doubting Thomas. I have admitted to it on numerous occasions and don't pride myself in it. I am more baffled that I still seem to be Thomas over and over again especially when, there have been so many things in the past three months since my father passed away that have SHOUTED God's goodness. C.S. Lewis wrote, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
God has most certainly been using one of those huge megaphones that the boy cheerleaders march around with on me! Which by the way, those guys look ridiculous with in my opinion. Anyway...it seems that God has been trying so very hard to shout in my pain of losing dad. He has shouted that the impossible is possible, the amazing-accomplished, and to borrow the words from Will Walker aka Fantastika Galacticka...God has made the nominal-phenomenal.
Over the course of three months we have watched God move in extrodinary ways with our move to Starkville. Each moment doubt crept into my thoughts, God found a way to blot it out. The blessings have come in huge bundles yet even the little things have amazed me. When I have doubted His listening ear, He has gone and put me in my place. Sometimes even before I knew the need, he provided! How this rings true with our salvation. He provided the lamb long before we were ever created.
You want to know some of things simple things, right? How about leaving behind a washer and dryer at our old house for the new buyers only to have a 3 year old set left behind for us at the new house in Starkville. Or how about me pleading with Andy to rid us of the 1000 lb desk I have used in the office for many years, have him agree, and then to be surprised by a precious little mommy desk built-in at the new house. More you ask- how about always wanting to sit down to dry my massive head of hair for most of my life only to have a built in vanity just waiting for my next half hour feat of wrestling with the blower. Okay...okay....not just with the house you say. How about thinking about how neat it would be to see a rainbow on this run I was on...mind you it was raining...and just when I stop thinking about it- turning the corner to see a rainbow peering through the clouds of gray. God is in the simple things and the huge.
This list could go on and on but I know you have your own blessings to add to this. Just when you start to doubt or believe He isn't listening- turn the corner, look in the sky and you will see His rainbow!
God has most certainly been using one of those huge megaphones that the boy cheerleaders march around with on me! Which by the way, those guys look ridiculous with in my opinion. Anyway...it seems that God has been trying so very hard to shout in my pain of losing dad. He has shouted that the impossible is possible, the amazing-accomplished, and to borrow the words from Will Walker aka Fantastika Galacticka...God has made the nominal-phenomenal.
Over the course of three months we have watched God move in extrodinary ways with our move to Starkville. Each moment doubt crept into my thoughts, God found a way to blot it out. The blessings have come in huge bundles yet even the little things have amazed me. When I have doubted His listening ear, He has gone and put me in my place. Sometimes even before I knew the need, he provided! How this rings true with our salvation. He provided the lamb long before we were ever created.
You want to know some of things simple things, right? How about leaving behind a washer and dryer at our old house for the new buyers only to have a 3 year old set left behind for us at the new house in Starkville. Or how about me pleading with Andy to rid us of the 1000 lb desk I have used in the office for many years, have him agree, and then to be surprised by a precious little mommy desk built-in at the new house. More you ask- how about always wanting to sit down to dry my massive head of hair for most of my life only to have a built in vanity just waiting for my next half hour feat of wrestling with the blower. Okay...okay....not just with the house you say. How about thinking about how neat it would be to see a rainbow on this run I was on...mind you it was raining...and just when I stop thinking about it- turning the corner to see a rainbow peering through the clouds of gray. God is in the simple things and the huge.
This list could go on and on but I know you have your own blessings to add to this. Just when you start to doubt or believe He isn't listening- turn the corner, look in the sky and you will see His rainbow!
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