How fitting that this was Tuesday's devotion

Eternal RebirthMay 25th, 2010
Tuesday’s Reflection
THE PROOFS OF ETERNAL REBIRTH are everywhere. Spring comes every year. Dawn comes every morning. Love happens out of hate. Birth absorbs the pain of death….To the Christian, both the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus we see as proof of God’s will for the world, and in the Paschal Mystery the demonstration of the cycle of struggle.
- Joan D. Chittister Hope: It’s More Than Wishful Thinking
From p. 41 of Hope: It’s More Than Wishful Thinking Copyright © 2010 by Fresh Air Books. Used with Permission. All Rights Reserved. http://www.upperroom.org/bookstore/. Learn more about or purchase this book.
Today’s Question
What examples of rebirth do you see in the world? Share your reflections.
Today’s Scripture Reading
Since we are justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
- Romans 5:1, nrsv

From my devotion book

This is related to the book of Habakkuk

The details of our days are different, all who've approached God in prayer can relate to Habakkuk's feeling that God's ears appear deaf. Like us, Habakkuk wrestled with God in prayer. He questioned at times God's silence. When God withheld what Habakkuk wanted he negotiated for a partial settlement. When God said no, Habakkuk took matters into his own hand.

We have only three short chapters of Habakkuk's conversations with God, but they contain major principles of prayer:
Pray with a willingness to wait-we must wait on God, waiting and praying go together
Pray with honesty-Contrary to our worse fears, God delights in our honesty in prayer. Habakkuk cried out, "how long?" (v.2) stripping himself of his neat prophetic robe and laying bare his impatience and frustration.
Pray with perseverance-As we bring our requests to God repetitiously, we partake of his presence repetitiously and give Him more opportunities to change our hearts.
Pray with readiness-We are to pray, ready to receive God's promised best, Ready or not God's answers will come.
Pray with confidence-When we cant see what God's doing, only faith believes he is at work. Habakkuk believed, he didn't know how or when God would accomplish his promise.
Habakkuk knew God was worthy to be trusted and believed in even when He appear inactive.
"I will praise you, O Lord. Although you were angry with me. Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation." With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. Isaiah 12:1-3

two types of people

I am sitting here listening to Joyce Meyers, she has a way of getting my attention. She mentions that there are two types of people in the world. Those that wait for things to happen and those who make things happen. I don't see myself as the type that waits for things to happen, I am the type that makes things happen. Although my willingness to make things happen for the most part can be a good thing I find that making things happen can also be my worse enemy. I tend to do things without praying, without thinking and without seeing what the results might be. The other day I was whining once again about how sucky life is, how I need changes made and then out loud to God I said, God your not going fast enough, I am going to have fix things myself..whoa
I am lucky I wasn't standing on a cliff, God might have just tossed me over!
I did catch myself saying that, and to God I am sorry, you don't always do what I want and I do get annoyed easily. That pretty much sums up why my eagerness to make things happen often result in the wrong choice and then facing the consequences of such.
So after my rant I prayed, I asked God to give me patience. Which brings me to my next point, how much of my life is the way it is because of my actions. How much could have been different had I waited for God to show me the right path. I know my childhood was abusive, dysfunctional and the kind people write books about, so I guess its easy to continue to create the same in my adult life. So how do we change the path, how do we make the future better without stepping on God's toes. Thats a hard challenge. Satan can easily use any opportunity in your life to deter you, to challenge you, to even make you think God is the one leading you. I do think when your at peace with a choice it's Gods way, its when your mind is going in six different directions is when your not going to make the right choice.
So I do believe I am the type that makes things happen, not the type that waits. I will pray more when I am making choices and give God a chance to give me an answer before I react. I will read God's words more and use them in my life. I will ask God for patience even if I don't feel like it, I will try to be nicer to people even if I don't feel like it. (that will be a hard one).

Things to be thankful for

I often post about being thankful, How we should praise God for all things in our life, whether it be good or bad. Today I decided to actually list some things that in the past few days I actually was thankful for.
Friday, I had off, and other than some activity around the house I didn't do much. For that I am thankful, I did have the boys and we had some fun playing freeze tag and a few other games. AT night we played Scrabble only to realize we were missing 15 letters. No wonder there were only a few "t's". I am thankful I can be a fun grandmother and my husband can be a fun grandpa (sometimes)
Saturday was the town garage sale, there were so many garage sales and so little time. I had my grandsons so I knew our day was limited. They like a few garage sales, but not as many as I would have liked. I was thankful I found new to me sheers for my bedroom. I got four panels for $10 bucks, almost brand new. I was going to pay $10 bucks each plus shipping through the JC Penny cataloge. Now I just need to order some valances or a scarf to go over them. So I am thankful that I found such a great buy, We also found two bikes to leave at our house for the boys to ride when they are here. This way they don't have to (or should I say we) drag their bikes at home back and forth. For both bikes I paid $30 bucks. I also found a new insulated lunch bag for 25 cents. I also got a Junior Scrabble game for $1.00. I could have walked around all day stopping and viewing each yard sale, but thats okay, for this I am thankful the weather was beautiful, the sun was shining, the breeze ever so gently. We also bought a kite that resembled a ship when put together, so after we got some hotdog for lunch we then went to fly it Not much flying as they (husband and two boys) couldn't the kite to fly. But they had fun
Around 3 pm, Samantha and I left to go see Bill Cosby, funny man but me thinks after a certain age perhaps written material might be best. He seemed to get lost in his train of thought with some of his routine. We still enjoyed it though and for this I am thankful I won these tickets and Sam's baby boy to be was considerate enough to let us use them..
At night, I crashed, not a car or anything like that, just crashed on the couch. I was exhausted. Having two boys for two days or was it three is tiring. But I am thankful that I have wonderful grandsons who are fun to be around.
Today I am going to get my mustache waxed, I am then going food shopping, and going to the nursery to pick up some annuals. I am also buying some weed cloth to use in my vegetable garden. I've never tried the weed stuff before but I am hoping it will cut back on my weeding time. I am thankful for products that make my life easier, so I can find time for more important things.
Well maybe later I will post more things I am thankful for

some blogs I follow, your welcomed to follow along too.

http://strivingtoliveeachdayhisway.blogspot.com/



http://mama52010.blogspot.com/



http://theboxcarkids.wordpress.com/

http://joshualovesgod.blogspot.com/