Every good and perfect gift...
Recently I've found it very easy to become discouraged. My life is not very exciting or eventful, I'm very lonely...these "trials" make it hard for me to find joy in the Lord and delight in the fact that I AM where He wants me to be...and His plan is perfect. A couple days ago, I was having a particularly hard morning and remembered something I had recently read in one of my new books from the homeschool convention, a book entitled Before You Meet Prince Charming. One of the chapters is on delighting in the Lord (see Psalm 37:4), and one of the things is encourages is taking note of the "gifts" the Lord gives you...the little things that we usually bypass every day. So, that morning I decided to see how many things I could find in my rather boring life that were little gifts through which the Lord showed He loved me. And there were SO many! The previously-crying baby giggling and giggling...talking with my dear sister that I hadn't heard from in quite awhile...having a good curl day (yes, I am that shallow!)...having potatoes and onions for supper...and more! And my day started getting better. But I don't think it was the day that was "getting better"...it was my attitude toward it. I started to realize how beautiful life REALLY is...beautiful not because it's exciting or full of friends...but beautiful because the Lord of everything, the Man who died for a wretch like me...loves me, and always will...and sends me flowers in the rain.
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning." ~James 1:17
"Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning." ~James 1:17