Day 2 of
40-day-challenge:
Not even 24-hours
and here we are again. (probably cuz I'm tired from last nights late
blog)
Today I am hailing
from the lovely down-town Listowel... the sun is setting in the west and I'm
between busy spells of my crazy life.
You know how
somedays you just can't slow down even though your body demands it?
That's my life
recently.
It feels like a
fast-food menu gone haywire.
I don't think we
were ever created to live like this.
That's why there's
moments of my day that I stop, listen, and take a moment to find the one who
makes all this crazy-ness worth it.
Jesus. no other name
makes my heart beat. (no really. it's true. and hey, can I tell ya that comes
in pretty handy when you face your 23rd Valentines Day as a single girl. My
heart is totally taken with Him... more on this later.)
There was a
particular moment today when I got lost in His presence.
And, delightfully,
it has to do with The Purpose Driven Life! (Thanks Rick Warren!)
Chapter 2 talks
about how you are not an accident.
Your birth (no
matter the circumstance) was not a mistake and every detail in your life was
planned out basically before your parents even thought of you!
What really got me
was this line...
"It doesn't
matter whether your parents were good, bad, or indifferent. God knew that those
two individuals possessed exactly the right genetic makeup to create the custom
'you' he had in mind. They had the DNA God wanted to make you."
Wow... now that's
advanced planning if there ever was one.
God didn't fast-food
order someone like you.
Not only did He
think of you before you were born, it wasn't even just a passing thought!
God totally took
every creative detail into account and made someone like you.
No one else could be
like you, and no one will ever be like you!
I think of my own
family when I think of this.
My parents had no
idea what kind of kids they would end up with (and if you ask us, we think they
ended up with some pretty great ones... and I think they'd agree).
But God knew exactly
who we were, what we would look like, which personality traits we would each
have.
Not everyone reading
this knows my whole family, but let me tell you this.
My parents are
incredibly awesome people. They will take anyone into their home and love them,
even if the rest of the world wouldn't. (Even on Christmas! not kidding.)
God gave them 4
amazing children who were born in the exact order, with the right amount of age
difference (which, honestly, took me a while to accept. being very much the
youngest) and later on we adopted Danny - coolest kid in the world. Best baby
brother a girl could ask for. :-)
Anyway, that being
said, I figure the way my parents raised us up to be Godly young men &
women, they deserve a lot of recognition in this blog.
I wasn't a fast-food
child, let me tell you. It took a lot of preparation and marinating to get
me from childhood to whatever it is I am right now.
God picked the best
parents for that job.
(So thanks, Mom
& Dad!)
Everything in life
shapes you. Whether your parents were present or absent, God planned it that
way. He is the ultimate Father and whenever He has an idea to create little
awesome image bearers to work in His kingdom (btw, that's you! If you choose to
live for him!) He doesn't make mistakes... especially when it comes to YOU!
So... Day 2.
I just want to
encourage you to remember this feeling of excitement when you think of the
incredible God who designed your life for a purpose and has great things
planned.
It's so easy to
forget who you really are sometimes... and yet we can always ALWAYS find who we
are in the intense presence of Jesus. :-)
Now I've got to
hurry off for an evening at music practice!
hah... like I said.
Busy life.
Would you like fries
with that? ;-)
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