It's a rainy day in the DFW metroplex. Nice all week, rain on the weekend. It was the same thing last weekend too. I'm kinda cooped up (no pun intended) in the room today. Later on, I'll be studying for next week but now I'm just kinda sitting here. I don't do alone very well, I found out. I mean that. I don't think I'm supposed to. I'm reminded that at Creation the only thing God said wasn't good was that man didn't have a mate. It's never been more vivid to me that God's observation was right. For all the struggles I ever faced in my life, being completely alone has been one of the hardest. I finally got some sleep last night. Sleep has been elusive. Aside from all the stuff I have to know about airplanes, I have been going through a spiritual refresher course too. And it's been challenging, but necessary. I have an understanding of a lot of things that hadn't really occurred to me. The solitude ha...
Sometimes, you get confronted with some hard, Biblical truth at just the moment you were hoping for something else. I hate today. Two marriages ended pretty much today, albeit several years apart and for some reason that fact is kind of smacking me in the face today. Maybe it's the cloudy weather, or maybe it's frustration that things in that department remain somewhat stagnated. The path still seems to be the path; had a chance to see her the other day, and maybe it's the pain of watching her leave again that's causing old wounds to be a little sore. I was so blessed to give a sermon on loving others on Sunday, and then there was a chance to see something on Wednesday morning that some others might have missed: There's a married couple or two in our little Wednesday morning group and I'm Facebook friends with one of the couple who announced they were celebrating a longer period of time together than I myself have managed to last in a relationship. I w...
It's interesting to me (I'd use the word funny here but funny only in the "How did you do that?" kind of way) how God sometimes causes or allows things to happen to get our attention. I had a little moment like that yesterday. While the story is a private one, I can, in round-about terms explain the importance of recognizing what God is saying. During the sermon at church, there was a part where I really felt like the pastor was speaking directly to me. It was explaining how two different circumstances involving the same item (in this case, Joseph's robe) were used by God to shape an outcome that affected everything. God, in His providence worked these circumstances to put Joseph where God wanted Him and twice, his robe (coat of many colors and the robe Potiphar's wife ripped off of him when he fled from her advances) was involved in advancing the story. I have a thing going on in my own life right now where I could glean some things from this part of the...
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