Theme: A Different Life
Today’s Dare: Dare to Live No Longer For Self ( page 111)
I am off to church bright and early. Will post later about today’s dare. I can only say from a quick glance, that I need this dare today! Yep! And, also have to say that yesterday working on Mind Management and shooing away the lies like flies, amazing results in attitude adjustment. God’s Word is true and works at the very deepest level of our hearts.
Later
Debbie
I was very glad to have a visual like flies buzzing around my home likened to negative thoughts slipping in and taking their spot in the home of my mind. I made a point of shooing them away yesterday. As a result I had a great time at the Pleasanton fair enjoying Jesus in my heart and refusing to let dark storm cloud negative thoughts push their way in and steal my joy. I am His, we are His!
Sean got his braces today. They had an opening this morning and in his excitement, he readily agreed to go in 6 days early and get them. All day yesterday, he talked about being excited and nervous at the same time. Braces seemed cool! His friends have them. He thought it would be great. We talked about the color of rubber bands he would get. Bring it on!!!! Change would be fun! Then, after about 90 minutes of holding his mouth open and getting them on, he found out that he wasn’t going to get rubber bands. Well, not yet, anyway. And now, hours later, his mouth hurts and he wants to have his mouth back the way it was. It didn’t hurt when he woke up. It didn’t hurt yesterday. “I should have waited until Tuesday!”, he said to me after we left.
It doesn’t matter that his teeth will be straight and his bite will be better. He is resting in the pain, in the now. But they don’t come off for two years. His great smile will be better, his mouth will be better and he will be better off…later. Pain comes with change, but it is good in the long run. It is a good gift if we trust God and put all our faith in the truths of His Word.
God is committed to providing for us. He invites us to enter into His love for us and be changed by it.
My challenge today is to trust Him for strength in the areas that temp me to live in ways that are not best for me. Like when I live for the approval of others, especially my kids, and not for His. I engage in arguments to show my position, wanting to gain their approval. That is not the best way for me to live. That is not the best way for them to live.
Thank you, Jesus, that you are all about what is best and great for me. Thank You that You are committed to providing for me and love me so much that You want change for me, foe my good, at just the right time.