Simple Thoughts

 I have a confession. Yesterday evening, I had a bad attitude. Call it hormones. Call it sleep deprivation. Call it whatever you want. I am sure I could have come up with tons of excuses, and I’m sure I used all of them in defense of my complaining. I spent the whole evening feeling sorry for myself. Finally around 3:30 am, I was up for a feeding, and it was almost like I could hear the Lord asking me a question.   “Are you done?” It caught me off guard. Then I felt like He reminded me how many hours I had been complaining.   Then I heard the phrase, “Count it all joy.” Jam 1:2-3 - My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. It hit me then how much I had been complaining the entire evening. I thought of Job and the intense amount of things that he went through. I thought of the many excuses he could have used and did, and yet, God said “Prepare yourself like a man and answer me.” Comp...

My husband gave a fantastic devotion last night at family dinner.   He really should start a blog.   He has such awesome insight that the Holy Spirit reveals to him. He spoke on Job and how God knows our heart and draws out the deep things – the things that we don’t even think are there that only come out in trauma or crisis. God has a way of pulling things out of us to reveal our hearts and to change us.   When he spoke this, it reminded me of a situation we had yesterday with my 5-day old son. My husband and I were taking him to the doctor yesterday for a check-up, and apparently, the little guy hates the car seat, and being driven around. While he was screaming at the top of his lungs, I told him, “Samuel! There is purpose in the torture! I promise! We are your parents! We aren’t going to torture you for no reason.   There is always going to be purpose behind the torture!” While my husband spoke, I thought of that situation, and could just picture myself someti...