A nice slower day that yesterday...so far.
Today is going at a much more reasonable pace. I went to the grocery store and dry cleaners already this morning and am about to clean the floors. I think though, writing down what I am doing with every day to share with ya'll helps me stay focused on the job at hand.
I could be wrong but since Miss Wiggles comes straight to me when she's poopy, I'm thinking potty training isn't that far away. She gets down in the marriage proposol position, does her business and then crawls over to me. She's a nut.
Here is a dovotional I read this morning by Barbara Bush I thought was really good.
Regarding 2 Corinthians 1:3-11
It is common to hear women bemoaning their lack of patience as if it were the most difficult gift to pry from God's hand. In fact impatience stems almost solely from our exaggerated notions of what is due us. If we could but lower our estimation of the importance of our time, our plans and our feelings, we would find ourselves almost automatically more patient.
If we are impatient about the same things that anger God - repeated sin, inattention to his Word, social injustice - we cannot really be called impatient (as long as our opinions are expressed in love). Neither can we expect a woman to remain totally unperturbed if someone smashes into her new car. Certainly "learning patience" is not an acceptable reason for failure to discipline a rebellious child. Patience is not the same thing as resignation or the cynical attitude that always expects the worst possible outcome.
Patience is a more positive trait. It is the ability to bear affliction, delay and interruptions with calmness, perseverance and confidence in the goodness of God (colossians 1:11-12). It is inward peace as well as outward control. It is the submission of our schedules, our viewpoints, our dreams to the greater plan of God, with the conviction that he has a good reason for every delay he allows to come our way.
I could be wrong but since Miss Wiggles comes straight to me when she's poopy, I'm thinking potty training isn't that far away. She gets down in the marriage proposol position, does her business and then crawls over to me. She's a nut.
Here is a dovotional I read this morning by Barbara Bush I thought was really good.
Regarding 2 Corinthians 1:3-11
It is common to hear women bemoaning their lack of patience as if it were the most difficult gift to pry from God's hand. In fact impatience stems almost solely from our exaggerated notions of what is due us. If we could but lower our estimation of the importance of our time, our plans and our feelings, we would find ourselves almost automatically more patient.
If we are impatient about the same things that anger God - repeated sin, inattention to his Word, social injustice - we cannot really be called impatient (as long as our opinions are expressed in love). Neither can we expect a woman to remain totally unperturbed if someone smashes into her new car. Certainly "learning patience" is not an acceptable reason for failure to discipline a rebellious child. Patience is not the same thing as resignation or the cynical attitude that always expects the worst possible outcome.
Patience is a more positive trait. It is the ability to bear affliction, delay and interruptions with calmness, perseverance and confidence in the goodness of God (colossians 1:11-12). It is inward peace as well as outward control. It is the submission of our schedules, our viewpoints, our dreams to the greater plan of God, with the conviction that he has a good reason for every delay he allows to come our way.
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