Saturday, March 13, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Update
I have now completed a week and a half at my new job. I love it! I come home after working my shift and, instead of heading directly to bed to collapse, I now cook meals, carry on coherent conversations and just generally get to live.
When I went in for my physical, my blood pressure was a little high, which surprised me. My blood pressure has always been on the low side. Turns out it wasn’t the fried food or the grease or the salt. It evidently was stress. One week later, back to normal. Life is good.
My husband, God love him, has picked up all of the stuff that I don’t have to try and cram into my day. Since his retirement, the laundry and the dishes are evidently now his domain, along with grandson wrangling.
My life right now is just so blessed. Yeah, there are bills. There is enough money to pay them. Yeah, there are conflicts. There is enough grace to solve them. It is all just good.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Class Projects
My grandson’s school had their annual auction on Sunday. This is the major fundraiser for the school. In addition to sheds and 4-wheelers and sides of beef (this is cow country, you know) each class does a project.
For Moose’s class this year, each child had to bring in a verse, Scripture or something else spiritual, that either has meaning to his family or that spoke directly to him. Moose and I googled “saints” and “quotations”. The results were amazing.
After reading just a few quotes, we came across this one from St. Francis of Assisi.
Moose instantly said, “That’s it”.
I asked if he didn’t want to look at some more and he looked at me like I had rocks in my head,. “But, Grandma, that one’s perfect. Why would I keep looking?”
Why, indeed.
Moose has always had a very close relationship with God. He is very sure of God and His love and of his love for Him. He is also aware, because we (his mom and me and his teachers and everyone else) tell him, of his faults.
Maybe it’s time to lighten up…or maybe, it’s just time to recognize God’s work.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Epiphany
Epiphany (courtesy of Merriam-Webster)3 a (1) : a usually sudden manifestation or perception of the essential nature or meaning of something (2) : an intuitive grasp of reality through something (as an event) usually simple and striking (3) : an illuminating discovery, realization, or disclosure b : a revealing scene or moment
Did you have one of those moments when something that you have heard all of your life and repeated all of your life suddenly smacks you upside the head?
During every difficult part of my life, someone in my family was sure to say, "God will never give you more than you can handle" to which one of us would respond, "Oh, yeah, well God is overestimating my ability!".
It finally dawned on me the other day, as I was contemplating some of the past events of my life, that the saying is 100% incorrect. Of course, God will give us more than we can handle or, more precisely, He will allow events to occur that are more than we can handle. What He will never do is give us more than He can handle.
It seemed so obvious once I thought it. Had I been able to handle all of the garbage in my life, I am not sure that I would ever have returned to God. Once I did, though, His grace poured down upon me and all of my difficulties, while they didn't disappear, did become more bearable.
So, the next time someone tells you that God will never give you more than you can handle, just remember. Of course He will. He will never give you more than He can handle. The secret is letting Him.
and then...part three
Monday morning, my new boss called and asked me to come in and get some paperwork so that I could go get my physical and drug test. No problem!
My appointment was at 1:00 and I was done by 2:00. Now the waiting, right.
Not so much. My new boss called Tuesday morning and asked me to come in and fill out some personnel paperwork and that I would start on Wednesday afternoon. Hurray!!!!!
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