Ok, I'll be honest, I didn't wake up in a happy, thankful mood. I woke up with no desire or 'tangible' reason to get out of bed. I wanted to slip back into deep sleep so yet another difficult day would be behind me. Not my proudest moment, sometimes sadness takes over. It is on days like today, however, that I am thankful for the challenge to choose thankfulness over bitterness, and joy over despair.
Day (January) 22: "A gift wrinkled, smoothed, unfolded"
Another honest moment, I read today's thankfulness challenge and was left confused and kind of bummed, I think maybe I thought this would be easy. But choosing thankfulness and joy in a world bombarded with complaints, pain, and sin, is difficult! Today's challenge is particularly difficult because lately there are things, both tangible and intangible, that I've been forcing myself to wrinkle, throw away and forget, certainly not smooth and unfold! Things like, pictures, letters, memories, and hopes. But what should I be thankful for that was wrinkled and should now be smoothed and unfolded?
Well I was trying to think of something tangible, a piece of paper of sorts, but I think God is using this day to show me a much bigger and much less concrete of a thing that's been smoothed and unfolded.
That is, my participation in, worship with, service to, and direct support from the body of believers at College Park church. Since I was going to be moving to Florida and searching for a new church, a large part of my involvement in and support from College Park had to be in a sense "wrinkled" for the time being. Well let me tell you, being surrounded by and loved by it's community and serving again within its walls has been water and rest for my soul. Thank you Lord for this blessing, and for the reminder that I am never alone!
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