God is answering prayers in my life and He's using me in others' lives. That is a neat thing to see Him do because I have a messy heart and I worry a lot and I tend to have walls up that NEED to come down. I have pride and I also have insecurity (which pride really is just a cover-up for insecurity I think). Anyways, I am humbled when God uses me. Driving through town yesterday, kids in tow, I just couldn't help but smile when I thought about how God literally fills me up and can spill out of me SO THAT I can do "things." It's simple, I know. But it's profound to me right now because when I really think about the fact that God Himself has given me life, and in Jesus I can experience that full life...I am humbled!
Hours after this simple realization, I spent some time reading when two kids were napping (and yeah right like THAT ever happens). So I loved some time alone with the Lord. This book I'm reading (see below) is changing my life:
When I was reading it in my quiet house, ahhhhh, I just had the neatest time with God. Everything I had been thinking about earlier was written on the pages in front of me. And it made me excited, even MORE excited, to give my life away to my husband, my kids, and the people God is entrusting to me right now.
"At the last, this is what will determine a fulfilling, meaningful life, a life that, behind all the facades, every one of us longs to live: gratitude for the blessings that express itself by becoming the blessing."
"Eucharisteo is the hand that opens to receive grace, then, with thanks, breaks the bread; that moves out into the larger circle of life and washes the feet of the world with that grace. Without the breaking and giving, without the washing of feet, eucharisteo isn't complete. The Communion service is only complete in service.Communion, by necessity, always leads us into community."
OUR LIVES CAN BECOME THE VERY BLESSING THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED!!! And that can be done in serving people. But it can also be done in work, and in serving Christ alone. For me, a lot of times, that is loads and loads of laundry. That is also unending dishes and dust and clutter. But the work can become worship, because "When the eyes of the heart focus on God, and the hands on always washing the feet of Jesus alone--the bones, they sing JOY, and the work returns to its purest state: eucharisteo."
So good.
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