How do I live life without being a self centered brat? I can't do it, but as I live each day in Him I see HIM breaking me of some of my "self" behavior..... needless to say life is not going the way we want it to. We know it is all about GOD, but daily walking a "life all about God" is challenging. It's hard not to go to that place of wanting crawl in a corner, to feel sorry for ourselves, to not grumble or complain; especially when we are tired and grouchy! Yes we get grouchy and try hard not to take it out on each other. For the most part we are successful, because even though we are weary, we are very aware of each others sensitivities. We both feel pretty sensitive and vulnerable. We feel pretty raw emotionally but are learning that this is good for us, though very uncomfortable at times. It is in our weakness that we are finding HIS strength. So for today we are ok with being weak and crazy(as you can see from this blog entry , we are nuts).
In our weakness He is made strong.
Mike says he is pretty stinkin self absorbed right now. Can you blame him?
It's not about us, It's all about GOD and for God ...prayerfully we can stay in this place another day. By His grace we will.
Mike and I wrote this together. Sometime it's me talking and sometimes him, it's nifty blend of us.
3 comments:
Can you say CONVICTION!! As I read I was thinking about how self-absorbed I am...which makes this all about me, right?
I love you guys and your posts always give me food for thought.
Whether tired, weary, cranky or grouchy you are truley a beacon of light shining for the Kingdom of God!!!
Praying that you make it to worship tonight.
The song in my head for today is "My God is mighty to save" I love it...Everyone needs compassion, the kindness of a Savior, the hope of nations. Take me as you find me all of my fears and failures, let mercy fall on me...
So praise God that while self-absorbed there is mercy!!!
Amen
This morning Bob and I were singing that song by Toby Keith, "I want to Talk About Me" and laughing because we all want it to be about "me, I - and no one else." Funny how we think alike Susan...we always have tracked together.
I know God is working and holding you up, holding you close and carrying you through this. My prayer is that time would race forward for you and soon, very soon you will be looking back on this time from the beach on Maui reflecting on God's Faithfulness and how He brought you through.
Here's your joke for today...
There were two lovers, who were really into spiritualism and reincarnation. They vowed that if either died, the other one remaining would try to contact the partner in the other world exactly 30 days after their death. Unfortunately, a few weeks later, the young man died in a car wreck. True to her word, his sweetheart tried to contact him in the spirit world exactly 30 days later. At the seance, she called out, "John, John, this is Martha. Do you hear me?" A ghostly voice answered her, "Yes Martha, this is John. I can hear you." Martha tearfully asked, "Oh John, what is it like where you are?" "It's beautiful. There are azure skies, a soft breeze, sunshine most of the time." "What do you do all day?" asked Martha. "Well, Martha, we get up before sunrise, eat some good breakfast, and there's nothing but making love until noon. After lunch, we nap until two and then make love again until about five. After dinner, we go at it again until we fall asleep about 11 p.m." Martha was somewhat taken aback. "Is that what heaven really is like?" "Heaven? I'm not in heaven, Martha." "Well, then, where are you?" "I'm a rabbit in Arizona."
Anyway, we love you and enjoyed talking this morning and "catching up".
love,
b & b
Your blog reminds me so much of a song I've just started hearing on KAMB. It's by Sanctus Real called Whatever you're Doing. This is the chorus:
Whatever You're doing inside of me
It feels like chaos but somehow there's peace
It's hard to surrender to what I can't see
but I'm giving in to something Heavenly
Something to grin about from an email I recently got:
YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2008 when...
1. You accidentally enter your PIN on the microwave.
2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.
3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.
5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.
6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.
7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen
8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't even have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.
10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.
11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile. : )
12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.
13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.
14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.
15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list.
;->
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