I dunno
I have no happy thought right now. Fortunately for me, I have someone I can share that with, and when I did, I felt a lot better. What I mean by this is that I don't have a goal or a dream. It seems that everything I wanted to do doesn't seem to be in the cards, or at least it's on hold.
I mean that. Everything in my life is up in the air and the only highlight in a week of lowlights is that I fixed the bathtub. It don't take much to make me happy.
I forgot an appointment on Tuesday and was able to reschedule it for Friday. I'm so glad I did because I got a verse to store in my heart I think will come in handy. It's Psalm 101:3 But in the broader lesson, it was just a chance to review some very important things to mature as a Christian man. And even as mixed up as my life is, which I'll get to in a minute, there's only going forward in faith and trusting and obeying God.
I know a lot of y'all think I'm nuts. Sometimes, I'm wondering myself if a week in the looney bin wouldn't do me some good. I could use the sleep, to be sure. But on the other hand, I have someone I can share things with that might not make sense to y'all non-believers, so I'll leave the story at that. His reply to me the next day was that he thought things were gonna get, and these are his exact words "crazy again".
If you read the blog with any regularity, you'd know that some really weird stuff has happened to me recently. I shared with you how I came to pay a visit back to the mansion Wendi and I tried to buy, not once, but twice before it was sold. I still have no idea why. I don't believe in coincidence. Ogden is small, but it ain't that small.
I didn't share with y'all this story, but I did with Miss June. One of my favorite Bible verses is Joel 2:25. I wanted to include something on this verse in the Lenten Devotional my pastor, mentor, and friend and I wrote as a gift to our church family. I couldn't find the right words, though, so out of all of the verses I was tasked to tackle, the one I wanted to do most was the one I did the least justice to and we didn't use it for the booklet.
I read this verse the other day by accident and it was the subject of the daily devotional in Our Daily Bread last week on Thursday. On Thursday, my nephew who I love to pieces, shared some thoughts about the Bible and although I agreed with him part way, I had to tell him I think there was more the subject at hand than what he'd said. I used Joel 2:25 as a way we can apply Truth to our own lives. There are times I just hold things in my heart and probably wouldn't have mentioned this if I hadn't been all done with news coverage for a minute and flipping channels. A program title caught my attention on one of the religious channels that I don't typically watch and the words out of the man's mouth right when I stopped were something to the effect "I believe God is restoring to us, right now the years the locusts ate."
I surely hope so!
That happened this afternoon.
Fast-rewind to the post I wrote the other day about observations. In there, you'll find a story about a car with Oregon license plates and a man waving right about the time I asked God if that was from Him. I told my friend I had no dream this morning and I couldn't come up with one if I wanted to. And if you asked me right now to sum up the one thing I want more than anything in one word, it wouldn't we wealth, or opportunity, or material things. Resolution would be what I'd ask for. Rest would probably be a close second. Money doesn't hit the list until about #5. I had to say all of that because what happens next wouldn't probably make a whole bunch of sense.
This was on my mind at the stop light at 26th & Harrison. At the light, I just kinda lowered my head and turned down the radio and just thought about all of that for a minute and asked God "what do you want for me?" And then I looked up and there's this red Mustang with, well, you guess....
I can't help that this stuff happens to me.
OK, so we're back at work. I work with some unusual people. I mean that. And one young man has been having a hard time and I've been trying to help him, to listen to his stories, and share a little bit of the gospel with him. His family is having a hard time; his sister-in-law tried to take the self-checkout lane last week. We were chatting tonight and he started telling me about his brother-in-law coming this week from Grand Junction. I'm not sure how we got to the subject, but he mentions completely off topic that he wants to go visit his aunt in...um, well, you figure it out. They live on the coast just down from the Washington border.
Again, I can't help that this stuff happens to me.
So, what does it all mean? I know there are an abundance of cars on Harrison Boulevard at any given day when I'm driving that have Oregon license plates. I know someone who has a relative on Oregon. I know that whoever buys the Eccles Mansion is gonna have a ton of work to do on it. I know that Joel 2:25 is a wonderful promise to the Isrealites and it's my hope it has some modern-day application in my life. I have faith. I know God is still on His throne and although I don't understand what any of this means, I do know that someday I will see that sight. I know I needed today's lesson in beliefs.
And I know I have to get up in six hours to have breakfast with the men from my church!
G'nite!
I mean that. Everything in my life is up in the air and the only highlight in a week of lowlights is that I fixed the bathtub. It don't take much to make me happy.
I forgot an appointment on Tuesday and was able to reschedule it for Friday. I'm so glad I did because I got a verse to store in my heart I think will come in handy. It's Psalm 101:3 But in the broader lesson, it was just a chance to review some very important things to mature as a Christian man. And even as mixed up as my life is, which I'll get to in a minute, there's only going forward in faith and trusting and obeying God.
I know a lot of y'all think I'm nuts. Sometimes, I'm wondering myself if a week in the looney bin wouldn't do me some good. I could use the sleep, to be sure. But on the other hand, I have someone I can share things with that might not make sense to y'all non-believers, so I'll leave the story at that. His reply to me the next day was that he thought things were gonna get, and these are his exact words "crazy again".
If you read the blog with any regularity, you'd know that some really weird stuff has happened to me recently. I shared with you how I came to pay a visit back to the mansion Wendi and I tried to buy, not once, but twice before it was sold. I still have no idea why. I don't believe in coincidence. Ogden is small, but it ain't that small.
I didn't share with y'all this story, but I did with Miss June. One of my favorite Bible verses is Joel 2:25. I wanted to include something on this verse in the Lenten Devotional my pastor, mentor, and friend and I wrote as a gift to our church family. I couldn't find the right words, though, so out of all of the verses I was tasked to tackle, the one I wanted to do most was the one I did the least justice to and we didn't use it for the booklet.
I read this verse the other day by accident and it was the subject of the daily devotional in Our Daily Bread last week on Thursday. On Thursday, my nephew who I love to pieces, shared some thoughts about the Bible and although I agreed with him part way, I had to tell him I think there was more the subject at hand than what he'd said. I used Joel 2:25 as a way we can apply Truth to our own lives. There are times I just hold things in my heart and probably wouldn't have mentioned this if I hadn't been all done with news coverage for a minute and flipping channels. A program title caught my attention on one of the religious channels that I don't typically watch and the words out of the man's mouth right when I stopped were something to the effect "I believe God is restoring to us, right now the years the locusts ate."
I surely hope so!
That happened this afternoon.
Fast-rewind to the post I wrote the other day about observations. In there, you'll find a story about a car with Oregon license plates and a man waving right about the time I asked God if that was from Him. I told my friend I had no dream this morning and I couldn't come up with one if I wanted to. And if you asked me right now to sum up the one thing I want more than anything in one word, it wouldn't we wealth, or opportunity, or material things. Resolution would be what I'd ask for. Rest would probably be a close second. Money doesn't hit the list until about #5. I had to say all of that because what happens next wouldn't probably make a whole bunch of sense.
This was on my mind at the stop light at 26th & Harrison. At the light, I just kinda lowered my head and turned down the radio and just thought about all of that for a minute and asked God "what do you want for me?" And then I looked up and there's this red Mustang with, well, you guess....
I can't help that this stuff happens to me.
OK, so we're back at work. I work with some unusual people. I mean that. And one young man has been having a hard time and I've been trying to help him, to listen to his stories, and share a little bit of the gospel with him. His family is having a hard time; his sister-in-law tried to take the self-checkout lane last week. We were chatting tonight and he started telling me about his brother-in-law coming this week from Grand Junction. I'm not sure how we got to the subject, but he mentions completely off topic that he wants to go visit his aunt in...um, well, you figure it out. They live on the coast just down from the Washington border.
Again, I can't help that this stuff happens to me.
So, what does it all mean? I know there are an abundance of cars on Harrison Boulevard at any given day when I'm driving that have Oregon license plates. I know someone who has a relative on Oregon. I know that whoever buys the Eccles Mansion is gonna have a ton of work to do on it. I know that Joel 2:25 is a wonderful promise to the Isrealites and it's my hope it has some modern-day application in my life. I have faith. I know God is still on His throne and although I don't understand what any of this means, I do know that someday I will see that sight. I know I needed today's lesson in beliefs.
And I know I have to get up in six hours to have breakfast with the men from my church!
G'nite!
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