The gig is up...
Well, the gig is up… the secret is out… yes, I do have a blog. :o)
For those of you who are mad at me for not sharing this rather insignificant detail with the world sooner… lighten up!
I began this blog because I was having a horrible week and had nothing to do one Saturday morning and was sitting there feeling sorry for myself and so I started writing.
I actually removed that first post because it was so pitiful and so “oh, poor me” and because my lovely little sister commented on it using some rather… ahem… choice words and I was concerned that my little people (mainly Lobachs and Vinars) will some day happen upon it and I didn’t want to add more words to their vocabularies. :o)
So, keep it clean people.
So… my thought for today… “You are never safe from surprise till you’re dead” (Rachel Lynn, Anne of Green Gables).
This is one of my favorite phrases to use on a day to day basis but I’m not completely sure that is true because I think that there will be tons of surprises once we get to heaven.
Can you imagine all the things we will discover about God… how much more sense some things will make… Oh, that’s why that happened that way… and oh, you mean that my simple interaction with that irritating person actually planted a seed in their heart that made them want to know where my peace and joy in such an unpleasant circumstance came from and they found God because of it?
I mean seriously, I think that when life is all said and done and we get out of this place and get to be in the throne room of God forever praising Him… we are going to be so surprised at all that He has done in our lives and in the lives of everyone we have ever known and even those we have never even met… and we will understand His goodness and sovereignty in a way that we just can’t comprehend right now.
So, I guess that for now we need to try and keep that big picture perspective in regards to the day to day things we have to endure… God is doing something far bigger and greater than we can imagine… our words and actions to our loved ones and even to the stranger on the bus that we say good morning to can and do have a far reaching effect…
Be on the look-out… be on the alert… be aware that what we say and do carries undercurrents of the God we belong to and represents Him to the world each and every day.
I think it was Mother Teresa who said “We can do no ‘great’ things… only small things done with great love.” Don’t be worried about doing all the great things that people typically get accolades for… you will have a chance to do some of them to I am sure…
Just try not to let the little things slip by unnoticed because in the Kingdom, accounting works differently… the things that seems to be the biggest or the greatest are not always the ones that yield the most fruit… it’s those little things like a free bottle of water on a cold day, a smile to the bus driver, a quick e-mail to a friend to let them know they are important to you that tend to have the greatest reward even and I might add ‘especially’ when you don’t get to find out what a difference it made. :o)
Posted in: on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 at at 11:30 PM
oooh, accolades - big word! (:
...and i think you mean "free cold water on a hot day" or some such phrasing, as water just doesn't seem quite as priority on a cold day as, say, a cup of coffee or tea...
Yes, Alyssa, I pulled that one out of my butt... my momentary lapse into intelligent speech was completely lost by the time I started thinking of the next thing to type thus the hot/cold water issue. :o)
...*cough*.. you kids are makin me thirsty..
and i'm totally using "accolade" as a vocab word.. ah yes, vocabularies.. i am a firm believer in expanding one's vocabulary :D, and i certainly felt that what i said.. well.. needed to be said.. :D ..sheesh.. you could have just removed my comment, you didn't have to take down the whole post... tevah..
*sigh* whatever would i comment without things to correct? (rhetorical, kids - doesn't call for an answer)
(:
okay...so now that the secret is out you're never gonna post again?
I've decided that at any point in my life I wouldn't mind dying. And this isn't a totally random subject, Arielle mentioned heaven in her post.
I was talking to a Christian friend once and she wasn't so hot on the whole dying idea, but I'm syked about it. I mean really, it can get any better. At least for me b/c I'm a Christian.
Anyways...