March was a busy month! It felt like there was more variety to the schedule, not to mention the variety of spring coming in. Some days were colder, but then the last couple days or so were pretty warm. Birds are flying around and making nests. We've even seen some go into the bird houses that we hung up a few weeks ago. But anyway, here are some of my favorites from the month of March! I'd love it if you shared some of yours down in the comments! Some Favorite Happenings
The couple that was going to host it at their house are known for giving birthday cards to the kids and teens in our church with gift cards in them. It's been a special thing for the last few years. :D We found at the teen event, when one of our youth leaders brought out a cake, that she had ordered a cake for just all the teen's birthdays to have at the event. So we still had it at the teen event. That just struck me as special. <3
Later, I noticed that the bird was back on the porch, like Blaze had gone and gotten it like "You forgot it! You didn't finish it yet!" So I got it with a plastic bag (which I then threw away in the outside trash bin). He was rolling over all happy-like on his back over the spot where the bird had been like he was quite pleased with his gift. :P A Favorite Book
A Favorite Verse"Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began" ~2 Timothy 1:9 A Favorite SongWhat were some of your favorites from the month of March? What did you do for Easter/Resurrection Sunday?
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Last week was a different kind of week for me, which is probably alot of the reason I didn't get a blog post finished up for this week. So, today, I was just gonna share a verse that I was reading last week that caught my attention. Then, Lord willing, we'll have our monthly round-up next week and then that post I was working on for today! "Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him." ~Isaiah 43:7 Is there a specific verse that has stood out to you lately?
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Why is it that small, frustrating situations can be so... frustrating? Why does it sometimes seem like it's harder to trust God with the smaller things that come up than it is to trust Him with the bigger ones? I struggled with this this past week, when I had gotten my work schedule for the next few days texted to me. I'd been wanting to work more hours, praying that if it was God's will I would get more, but yet disappointment filled me as I looked at the picture one of my managers had sent. I had very few hours, once again. I'd been dealing with this for weeks. I'd been trying to figure out some way to get more hours, thinking of working at another store or maybe working night shifts or maybe even leaving this job I love, but none of that seemed like a good idea. It even seemed like something would work out when a co-worker had an idea, but that didn't end up happening either.
It had already consumed so many of my thoughts for weeks upon weeks. And looking at so few hours once again, I was hurt. I was tempted to be angry. I was frustrated, feeling like I hit a wall that there felt like there was no good way I could climb over. I knew I was supposed to trust God and leave it with Him. I'd made my request known unto Him with thanksgiving for whatever He allowed to happen. But letting that be it was so hard. I didn't want to let it go. I didn't want to let it go, stop thinking about it so much, and just let God handle it. Why though? As I've thought about it more, I've come to face the answer: I was afraid that He wouldn't handle it the way I wanted. What if it wasn't His will that I get more hours? What if He wanted me to wait even longer for anything to change?
My Father promises that if I delight in Him, He shall give me the desires of my heart. I can trust Him with my heart. After all, He knows my desires better than I do. Maybe what I think I want isn't actually what I want. Maybe He's going to change my desires, maybe He's going to meet them in a different way, or maybe He's going to meet them the way I'm thinking but only after I wait and learn this.
And all the brain room it consumes, as I try to figure it out and find my mind constantly on it? Proverbs 16:3 says, "Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established." He promises to establish my thoughts; all I have to do is commit my way unto Him. He's the God of the universe. He made me. He allowed everything that happens to me. He knows me and loves me and wants the best for me more than anyone else in the entire universe, including myself. He is so much infinitely wiser than I can even imagine (the last few chapters of Job give us a glimpse of that!) All things will work together for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28). He won't withhold any truly good thing from them that walk uprightly (Psalm 84:11). I can trust Him with a work schedule, as well as anything else that comes up in life, however small or big.
"Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us." (Psalm 62:8) "He that handleth a matter wisely shall find good: and whoso trusteth in the LORD, happy is he." (Proverbs 16:20) "Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us," (Ephesians 3:20) "Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need." (Hebrews 4:16) "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose." (Romans 8:28) Do you deal with frustration over small situations? Is there any specific truth or verse that God has used to help you?
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