Today I'm thankful for those rare occasions when the elevator door opens right when you walk up to it and it's going in the direction you need.
I'm thankful for the real first snow of the season and how it turned my scarf (and probably my hair) completely white during the course of my walk through the neighborhood to enjoy it.
I'm thankful for a meal of cobbled together leftovers of all the foods I liked the first time around.
I also want to include an email I wrote forwarding an Encouragement of the Day email from Bible Gateway to a few friends (I subscribed to this email digest about a year ago and definitely recommend it - it is geared towards women, just so you know, but there have just been so many great messages that either I can take something away from or use to better equip myself to help out a friend. Some days it is literally exactly what I need to hear, it's incredible. Besides, who doesn't need a little encouragement now and again? Or every day?!)
"Hi friends! I just wanted to pass this along because it touched me today. Especially this: 'You can't work
to know the love of God. You need to rest in the love of God.' We don't
need to work for God's love, we just need to love God and let God work
through us! (Maybe I shoulda realized this in those words before, but
sometimes even things I in theory understand need to be spelled out haha). And as crazy as our lives can get, resting in God's love is
basically the coolest thing ever, and perhaps all the more important
when our lives get crazier. May you find rest in God's love today and
all days!"
I take delight in small revelations. Some days, maybe God just needs to hit me over the head with a message in clearer terms than whatever I had been muddling through. But isn't that quote beautiful? "You can't work
to know the love of God. You need to rest in the love of God." Breathe. And as God fills you with your next breath and the one after that, may you find peace in that perfect love.
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