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Note to Self...
There are times when I am so thankful that God has the patience to mold me, correct me and discipline me. I am so grateful that He sent His Son before us to live a life that I could not live and that He died a death I deserved to die. I am so grateful at times that He is the example of the life I should be living.
Occasionally, at work, or just life in general I will come across a situation where its tough. I can feel the pull of how I want to react, and the whisper of how the Spirit wants me to respond. And in those rare times, where I obey the wisdom and voice of the Spirit, I am blown away by how the situation turns out.
There have been so many times where I have wanted to vent against someone, and the Spirit has convicted me to forgive. Times when I’m so frustrated with a person, and the Spirit has prompted me to show kindness and mercy. Times when I feel someone is deserving of their circumstance, but show sympathy and to pray with them. Times when I want to pass the buck or not deal with something awkward, but instead prompted to deal with it and use it to show the grace and love of God. Times where I feel I should back down on my moral conviction, but instead stand firm. Times where it feels hopeless, dark and desperate and I want to dwell in anxiety, but instead tells me to trust in Him and rest.
I don’t always obey and follow through with His promptings. But I thank God that He has moved in me in such a way… and my prayer is that He would continue to… It’s nice to reflect and see where He has succeeded in conforming me more in to the likeness of His Son, Jesus. :) Yay!
My parents were fans of the Reader’s Digest, so, happily and thankfully, I got caught up -from elementary school onward- in reading; first, the short comic sections, then, the small stories and finally tackling the full length pieces which usually covered some human interest. By the time I was in high school I was looking for things to read; having had a good solid foundation from grade one onward in phonetics, I found that the words began to flow easily and made the process of comprehension readily available to me, until the point of coming into being “able to discern and understand things” like epistemology and anthropomorphism, etc.
I think by the time I got to things like phenomenology and what and how transcendence occurs I realized the value of being able to focus my reading beyond the words themselves into the very concepts that were spoken of contextually. So here’s to my parents and Miss Clark of grade one and to all of those whom have taken the time to put a book together…”To better inform us.” ( ” A is for apple so rosy and red.,” as Miss Clark would have said.)