Thursday, January 21, 2016

STAND CONVICTED OF GOD'S LOVE

To be taught by my hurts rather than keep them in my rues, regrets and remorses file...ah, that is the healing action.

To know the miracle-working power of love, i.e., God, only from our eyebrows up is to miss it entirely. That's akin to loving the words in the Bible because they are so pretty albeit utterly meaningless.

We can know it, but if we can't show it, we have not arrived at the conviction of God's love. We are missing the motivating power of that love...that which walks us forward and shows forth from within us.

The fact is that God is showing forth with every breath we take. We just don't see it. We can know God is love, God is within, but continue to pray for each of those...because we neglect to take note of it in our life.

Our life will change when we start acknowledging God in the little places, the "insignificant" gifts we miss when they are given. Be assured, God can wash our windows, find us a parking place, etc....if we have such a need.

I remember the time I parked under a tree at my vet's office, and I had to drive home with my head on my shoulder, squinting to see through the bird poop on my windshield. I was bringing my little Ari home and didn't stop to clean the window when I got home. That night there was a terrific storm...heavy rain all night long. Yes, indeedy...God washed that window!

That's the day I started acknowledging God in the cracks and crannies of my life rather than seeking him only on the mountain tops. Personally, I am rarely called to the mountain tops, but my life gets new cracks and crannies daily.

The lesson is to not file the contents of those cracks and crannies in my poor, pitiful, put-upon me file, but to stand on my conviction that they are here to teach me that God has already blessed them...then I can welcome rather than rue them. And laugh at me for ever doubting it.

Thank you.

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