| | this morning i said my goodbyes to Carmen as she is headed off to live
in Grand Rapids, MI. i cried about it some last night when the other
girls were saying their goodbyes. but it didn't really sink in much
until i was driving home from her house this morning. it all kind of
hit me at once. she is moving today and then i am moving in exactly a week.
it's seriously crazy. i was driving and listening to mates of state
(which will forever remind me of carmen!) and my mind started running a
million miles a minute... worrying about one little thing after another...
i was just sort of questioning that carmen and i were both headed in
the right directions.
and then mine and carmen's favorite MOS song, "for the actor", came on
and then a GIANT flock of birds flew right overhead. i felt that the Lord was
using that to remind me that a) both carmen and myself are worth more than thousands of those little birds (Matthew 10:29-30, Luke 12:6-7) and b)
i should stop worrying so much because the Lord is in control... He has brought
me this far and now all i have to do is step out in faith and move
Matthew 6:25-34
"Therefore I tell you, do
not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your
body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the
body more important than clothes? Look
at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in
barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more
valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life? "And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If
that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and
tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, O
you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
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