Today is Sunday and Christmas has come and gone. Sadly, yesterday didn't even really feel like Christmas, and it ended in frustration and tears...lots of them. thanks to the good old father-daughter conversation, the first since May.
Do you ever feel like you're saying one thing to someone and they don't understand what it means at all? Like you're on two completely different wavelengths. It doesn't stop me from loving him with my whole heart, but I just wonder if all we really did was try to convince the other person that they're wrong. It felt like there was very little listening going on. Except in the acknowlegement that we both love each other very much.
Today was a different day--it began, of course, with church. I can't help but ask myself if my heart towards people is just too prideful. I AM concerned with the truth. I have a passionate desire for it. I know it's preached at Bethlehem. I don't know that I could say that about Mt. Zion without reservation. But then the rest of today all I did was shop. I got a great skirt at Ann Taylor for only $20...score. And some hot earrings. Yay for Christmas money. I didn't spend all of it though. I don't want to. Well, I mean, I do, but I want to give it away. I really want to give to my Aunt and Uncle though. God is leading them to adopt a 16 year old girl and her 14 year old brother from Russia, and they have to raise $24,000 by February. Can you believe that? It's hard to fathom, but I KNOW without a doubt (faith, yeah) that it will happen if God desires it to. He will complete the task He has called them to. It's really cool, because my Aunt emailed a ton of people asking for clothing donations for the orphanage (another lady she knows was affiliated with it somehow)...but anyway, everyone she emailed sent money instead. I'm pretty sure they're going to use that towards the $24,000...man that's a lot of money. I can't wait to see this happen. And how cool will it be to have Russian cousins! They don't speak any English, I don't think, but hey. Still. Praise God. :D
Two situations, both impossible. I know God will come through. He's never not before. This may not really apply all that much to these situations, but this passage just came to mind:
"For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of Christ. But by the grace of God I am what I am, His grace was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all the others, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me." 1 Corinthians 15:9-10
Do you ever feel like you're saying one thing to someone and they don't understand what it means at all? Like you're on two completely different wavelengths. It doesn't stop me from loving him with my whole heart, but I just wonder if all we really did was try to convince the other person that they're wrong. It felt like there was very little listening going on. Except in the acknowlegement that we both love each other very much.
Today was a different day--it began, of course, with church. I can't help but ask myself if my heart towards people is just too prideful. I AM concerned with the truth. I have a passionate desire for it. I know it's preached at Bethlehem. I don't know that I could say that about Mt. Zion without reservation. But then the rest of today all I did was shop. I got a great skirt at Ann Taylor for only $20...score. And some hot earrings. Yay for Christmas money. I didn't spend all of it though. I don't want to. Well, I mean, I do, but I want to give it away. I really want to give to my Aunt and Uncle though. God is leading them to adopt a 16 year old girl and her 14 year old brother from Russia, and they have to raise $24,000 by February. Can you believe that? It's hard to fathom, but I KNOW without a doubt (faith, yeah) that it will happen if God desires it to. He will complete the task He has called them to. It's really cool, because my Aunt emailed a ton of people asking for clothing donations for the orphanage (another lady she knows was affiliated with it somehow)...but anyway, everyone she emailed sent money instead. I'm pretty sure they're going to use that towards the $24,000...man that's a lot of money. I can't wait to see this happen. And how cool will it be to have Russian cousins! They don't speak any English, I don't think, but hey. Still. Praise God. :D
Two situations, both impossible. I know God will come through. He's never not before. This may not really apply all that much to these situations, but this passage just came to mind:
"For I am the least of the apostles and do not even deserve to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of Christ. But by the grace of God I am what I am, His grace was not without effect. No, I worked harder than all the others, yet not I, but the grace of God that was with me." 1 Corinthians 15:9-10
posted by The Girl With Something to Say @ 12/26/2004 10:12:00 PM
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