Words are the way we express our selves. The way we give life to our ideas. The way we describe the desires of our hearts. Words like:
Honesty. Hope. Cheerful. Positive. Driven. Welcoming.
What are the words those you love use to describe you? When I think of those questions, I hope they're ones like the ones listed above. But if I'm honest, they could very easily use words like:
Impatient. Controlling. Drama Queen. Tactless.
as well. How does that make me feel....?
In His word, my Father also describes me in many ways:
Beautiful. Ungrateful. Dependent
Compassionate. Stiff-necked.
Loving. Untrusting. Faithless. Faithful.
It's my choice and yet it's so not.
During this Easter season, I am reminded over and over again, it's not about what I do but what He did. It is not about me earning but about what He gave, as in past tense, as in already done.
So what's a girl left to do but give it back to Him
Join me this week as I seek to know my Father a little big more by loving His creation, His people, and His world in new and different ways. By investing myself in the present. By engaging those who I spend my days with on the train, in the office, on my walks home, at the gym. All these things are good, they are blessings. Not because I earned them but because He has given them to me.
So even as I miss my morning coffee, I have a wide variety of teas to now be thankful for too (or at least I keep trying to tell myself that!)
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