Walking in the rain

Today I took my weekly walk with God and thought about the past week.  Thank You God for Your forgiveness!

Today I prayed for...

Today I prayed for:
-inspiration from God as I read the Bible
-the courage, strength, and wisdom to do what's right today and to follow God
-patience
-help with laundry
-couples
-students
-workers
-people with Alzheimer's and their caretakers, friends, and family

Today I thanked God for:
-food
-sunshine
-Jesus
-God's love
-Disney music
-His help with resisting sin
-friends
-family
-new books to read
-music
-Bananagrams

Opposites

Today was a day of opposites.  The morning was wonderful, full of prayer and joy that was a direct gift of God.  And then somehow I switched to pointless inactivity and doing what I wanted instead of consulting God.

I'm not sure what to post about today.  I had no spectacular revelations, not even any small ones.  But thank you for the small chance I had during the bustle of the day to take a few minutes and read Your word.

Valentine's Day

I hope and pray that everyone had a wonderful Valentine's Day!

I didn't talk to God enough today.  Please forgive me, Lord.

The Beauty of Nature

On my walk today, the beauty of God's creation just took my breath away and filled with with an indescribable joy and peace, despite a stressful and sin-filled week.  Almost everywhere I turned, the snow-covered woods just seemed so wonderfully beautiful; I spent five minutes watching a flock of sparrows flitting around in a bush, and a few more minutes watching a nuthatch walk every which way on a tree's trunk.  God created the whole universe, is even bigger than the whole universe, but He is also in each and every tiny moment and place and creature that He created.  How awesome is that?!

My Prayers Today

Again, today I recorded everything that I prayed for:
-me to not sin today
-John's track meet
-me to stay in reality today
-for the strength to resist sin
-that I will read the Scripture for the right reasons
-seniors and thesis-writing
-V feeling like she's not a good friend
-P with testicular cancer and his wife
-Wendy
-teachers
-a friend who didn't get the job he wanted
-all my friends (sick, stressful jobs)
-call-center workers
-people stuck outside in the cold
-Ireland
-servants
-people not getting enough sleep
-pilgrims
-names
-sour people
-anorexia
-first impressions
-Google
-the planet
-freerice.com
-Ferris wheels
-assistants
-Argentina
-that I will not get sick
-my family
-people making decisions
-aid workers around the world

And thank You, God, for:
-the snow
-the sunshine
-chocolate
-water
-calculators
-health
-soap
-new books to read
-good food
-friends
-bubbles
-water

Tired

I am very emotionally and physically tired right now.  There is something wrong between me and God, and I'm not sure what it is.  I've been praying that I may find out what it is.

Motivations

Something I have a real problem with is staying focused on work and things I need to do through the day.  Today, for whatever reason, was a particularly bad day.  About 11 o'clock, I found myself completely unwilling to do work, so instead I went onto freerice.com.  After lunch, I did the same thing.  The second time, I heard God say to me, "Just because you're helping to feed hungry people doesn't make what you're doing right.  You have to do the right thing for the right reasons, too."

Staying Dependent

Today was quite a lesson in staying dependent on God.  In the evening today I had a meeting that I was really looking forward to and I wanted to think about all through the day, wonder and imagine what it might be like.  But God told me this morning, very firmly, that he didn't want me to think about it at all through the day.  'Alright,' I thought, 'I can do that.'  Asking me to not think about certain things is something that God does rather often, and I thought I was getting pretty good at it.  WRONG!!  I realized very quickly that I couldn't do it, at all.  All through the day I was praying for God to take the thoughts away and focusing on the present rather than the future--so on the grass I was walking on, the fact that my ears were cold and I really should have worn a hat, the heavy door, my hard seat.

So, thank You, God, for sticking with me through the day, and for Your patience, and for the strength You lent me!

Meh

Today I just wasn't feeling it.  Something just felt off all day between God and me, and I'm not sure what.  Thank You, God, for being with me even when I can't feel it.

Morning Prayer

This morning, instead of reading the Bible like I normally do, I just prayed--mostly for others and for situations in the world.  I will admit, I'm not sure how much difference it made in my routine and how I thought about things.  I didn't pray much during the day, and feel like I didn't listen to God all that much.

The Sky

On my walk today, since the weather was so wonderful, I stopped at a field, laid down, and talked to God while laying there, looking up at the sky and the bare branches of a tree.  Thanks for a wonderful Sabbath, God!