Kendra and I still aren’t in our house, although we’re definitely closer to closing than we’ve been yet. This is a crazy long process. It’s cool though, because what has caused so much frustration and stress God is using to re-teach me a lot of really good truths about myself in Himself and life.
It’s like I’m slowly learning how to be me again. A big old friend to come back along is the fact that my mistakes as well as successes have a purpose. They’re much less fun, but learning is important and I can dig that. Embrace your failure by learning and not repeating those mistakes. It is easier said than done…this flesh is weak. So it is by the Spirit that we gotta be livin.
Now for a new thought.
I have been thinking about my emotions in reference to God a lot lately, because I used to really cry out to God often and I haven’t really let go like that in a while, which can’t be an altogether good thing. I am a very passionate person and somehow, I seem numbed to a lot of really moving things in life of late. For example, the grace of God in the life of my amazing wife and son, how I’m allowed to stay in their lives even when I screw up, how my niece and nephew both recently decided they want to be baptized, and how God protected my parents on their travels through the Blue Ridge Mountains and North Carolina playing mountain disc golf (My mom didn’t even fall down once! If you know her, you know that’s an accomplishment. (Love you mom!!!))
I think this lack of emotion towards God that I’ve been living has a whole lot to do with the solitary nature of our life right now. Kendra, Dean, Audrey, and I don’t really see anyone but Quincy and Liz and my parents. Outside of that we spend virtually no time with anyone, which is fine to an extent, but after so long it gets to feel like we’re isolated and alone in our little tiny world. It is no mystery why we’re struggling. We see only the same aspects of God in Christ’s body that are reflected in our itty bitty little circle of people that we see, and for whatever reason, we’ve not delved farther into the internet communities of Jesus loving people yet. I know these are remediable problems, and God’s grace is sufficient for us in all of these areas.
This blog seems to be really wild and going everywhere today, so…how about a tongue twister…Say it loud and fast 10 times:
Entering, Injury, Energy
FUN!!!!!!!!!
Happy day all!
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