So it's something past 3 in the morning and I cant sleep....obviously. I was lying in bed wondering when was the last time I wrote a blog and I couldn't remember. Life has been a bit bumpy over the past few months...actually maybe more than bumpy as even writing...yes writing...hasn't helped with "venting". So I thought maybe I'd write something and listen to some music and maybe, just maybe fall asleep (and hopefully not while writing this). So I'm sitting here in the dark listening to a mixture of Tenth Avenue North and Jeremy Camp and ready to write something. If it doesn't make sense...bear with me, it is EARLY in the morning.
So last night I was at a friends house kid sitting while they went to fetch a family from the airport. It was a late airport pick up so I knew the kids would be in bed. Surprisingly I gave up playing wii (GASP) and instead decided to read the bible. Something I'm trying to do a little more regularly specially when the road is feeling uphill. So I decided I would start with 1 Thessalonians and just read until they came back. So an hour and something later I had gotten through both 1 and 2 Thessalonians. But there were these 3 verses from 1 Thessalonians 5 that really got me.
16 Rejoice always, 17 pray continually, 18 give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Gosh I have a lot to learn and a long way to go. Lately, I certainly have not rejoiced much, have not prayed as much as I should and definitely have not given thanks about the circumstances I've found myself in. That was a big challenge for me as I read that. I find it "funny" (??) that one can read a passage a few times, as I have this passage, and yet it's never "hit me" the way it did last night. But perhaps that's all part of the learning and growing process. I don't know, but at least God does. Thank goodness for that!!
Well that's it for now. Sleep, I think, beckons!
