I think I really needed this 4 day weekend, although I have seen I have 25 messages waiting for me. I realize I forgot to put an 'out of office' on my emails, forgetting that other companies are not always closed just because we are. Getting the day after July 4th is totally unusual. I think it is more that it landed on a Thursday and a lot of people wanted the next day off as well. I don't know, but I enjoyed it. With my male boss off Monday still, I can easily get these emails done. I saw that some are responses from other admins for meetings at other companies I had sent to. They will still be there tomorrow, right?
Yesterday, I spent the morning at Panera with my friends from Needles of Hope. It was fun meeting at a different place - and good coffee - and I bought scones. The others got sandwiches, but I resisted. This time. We may meet there next month too - and I may not be so resistant to a sandwich. Actually, I wasn't resistant.... I love scones and saw them and that's what I wanted. ;-) Other than that, I could have gone shopping, but talked myself out of it. I came home. No, I didn't, although hubby told me to. I did have a light headache, bad enough I took an ibuprofen for it. I didn't read... I did work some on the diamond art project I have, and I crochet'd. Hubby had the TV on to a movie when I got home so I finished watching it with him. Worked on the diamond art project I have and then didn't do a lot of other things. I did cook dinner. Another lazy day.
And today is Sunday and many churches are doing the 'At the movies' things they like to do in July the past several years. I don't care for it. Why? Because I don't go to movies (as a rule), and I don't watch the kind of movies that they pull their message from. If you think about it, EVERY movie can have something that you can pull out of it and turn it to Jesus. Well, most. I don't watch those movies and they mean nothing to me. I remember one year a former pastor at another church we attended shared a movie (I forget which one), showed some violent parts in it; language was blocked, of course, and he makes the comment, I'm not recommending you go watch this movie, but if you do.... you can see.... Yeah. No. I didn't get it nor did I watch it. Why would you show such a movie (and why were you watching it in the first place?) to the congregation? I've been checking and I don't think our church is doing it, for which I am grateful. I know a couple other churches are as I have seen their advertisements for 'at the movies'. Even my favorite, Jentezen Franklin is doing it. No, I'm not watching him this morning. However, he did send emails out to watch the service on You Tube, which he has a message on. With them being movies, and copyright issues they cannot show the movie pieces for all to see. I'm still not watching it live. Just don't want to. And that's ok.
No matter how hard I try to sleep late when I don't 'have' to get up early, I still awaken early. This morning it was after 3AM when I awoke... I tossed and turned until nearly 4AM, hoping to go back to sleep, but couldn't. Finally got up and came in here. Hubby got up about an hour later to bring me my coffee. Yeah, he still does that every morning. Yes, I can do it myself, but it's easier to let him than him getting out of shape. HE BREWS - right?
Something in one of my devotionals this morning spoke to me (as they usually do). A prayer life that hears and speaks but doesn't do is dull and lifeless. Joyful Christian living is discovered only in the meadows of obedience.
Luke 6:46 (NKJV): But why do you all Me "Lord, Lord" and not do the things which I say?
James 1:22 (NKJV): But be doers of the Word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves.
When God calls us (you and me) to do something we can't do, we are being drawn into an adventure. Think about it. Sometimes we don't realize - or know - that God is calling us to do something, because we don't have a close relationship with Him. We don't realize it is God wanting us to do something, it is just a feeling 'I should do that'. Right? It could be anything.
The thought that comes to mind is for the spouse to just get up and wash dishes, or clean a room. Not that they have been asked, but because it needed to be done and you feel "I can do that". Sometimes it is God nudging you to do something. As a rule, the other spouse will be grateful and appreciative that someone stepped out of their own self to help them. I probably have said that all wrong. As I was typing it, I was thinking of my own household. I do the working and the cooking, and hubby is supposed to do all the cleaning. But over the years, laziness has set in. We now have house cleaners that come once a month to clean. Hubby has not had the sweeper out in three years. May as well give it to Savers. He doesn't dust. He doesn't even clean his toilet. (Yes, I do clean mine!) He has quit over the years volunteering to fix a meal for us. Unless he can heat something up in the microwave. Sometimes. He will get my glass of water. (I'm not putting hubby down, just telling it like it is). After cooking, I generally go ahead and clean my pans and cooking dishes as I go. Why? Because hubby doesn't like cleaning the pans and will leave them sit in the sink with water in them to 'soak'. They don't need soaking; they wipe clean. So I usually just go ahead and wipe them out and put them away; saves my pans, saves my attitude, saves arguments.
Now why did that come to mind when I was talking about being obedient? I could say it could be that we sometimes think we could do that (a God thought), but we will turn away and go "Naw, I don't want to do that." Isn't that what we do? I could say that with my sewing. I have several projects I want to do; I have the material. I obviously have time to sit and watch movies or crochet and could also have the time to get some sewing done.... but I don't. But I need to. And I should. After all, Christmas will be here in 171 days (you needed to know that, right?) and I know no one wants any knitted or crochet items from me/us this year. I'm not that good at it anyway. I say "Naw, I don't want to do that."
Do we listen to what God is telling us - and if we HEAR Him, are we obedient? I know I have really messed up on my examples. No excuses, just not really thinking this morning. But I hope you get the jest of what I'm saying. Sometimes when we 'feel' something, it is really the Holy Spirit putting that thought into your mind. Call someone? Act on it. Write a note? Sit down and do it. Be obedient to what you 'hear' in your spirit, for it just may be God speaking to your heart.
Blessings!
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