Morning Musings...

I was invited to participate in a challenge for the month of September:

Granted, I know that as a child of God I SHOULD be 

instant in season and out of season,

and I definitely aspire to be that...

but, I also know that passivity and  self-pity lap

far too closely at my door,

so I took up the challenge.

It started out as a Facebook challenge, but it 

appears to be extending beyond as well.

It has me thinking about thoughts...

I pondered them this morning as I was 

putting away the new rolls of toilet paper

(yes, this is homemaker's realness...pondering over 

mundane tasks like restocking toilet paper)...

I was feeling a little peevish

(I don't recall why exactly)

and then I thought, well! I have the choice

to be peevish, 

or...

I can thank God that all of my family

has normal bodily functions,

and that we have good food to

help those bodily functions to be normal,

yes, I really did think this...

And then I thought about the planned activities for today...

unloading 5 face cords of fire wood and helping 

my darling husband to load another 5...

and I would really just like to sit and sew and

go for a long walk down the country road,

whose ditches are engorged with the beauty 

of late summer flowers...

but...

I have a choice on what kinds of thoughts

I will allow, so...

I choose gratitude that I have a husband

who is forward thinking,

and hardworking,

and decided that we shall prepare for snow

before the snow this year...

HAPPILY

will I help him.

And so it goes...

thoughts.

What about it?

Are we really believing that we

 have been given

the power to 

bring into captivity

EVERY THOUGHT

to the obedience of Christ?

Which brings me back to

the blessing challenge.

I put it out there for anyone reading this

who may be challenged and encouraged

to do the same in your corner of the world.

There are alot of relationship rubs...

places that hurt

or annoy

or hinder a friendship

if we let them get in the way.

Are we going to sit by and

let those things build up and destroy life?

Or are we going to choose

to bless even the 'unlovable'?

(remembering that outside of Christ,

we are 'of all men most miserable'?)

And besides that,

blessing others is much harder,

and much less frequent in our nature

than to curse the darkness

and to be negative to others...

So I challenge you.

And I take up the challenge myself.

Do you have a story to share

on how the blessing of another

lifted your weary heart?

Or perhaps you can share about 

how the Lord helped you to

change your thoughts from

morose and negative

to thankful and positive?

(I'm going to be sharing each Tuesday

in September, Lord willing,

about how I have been blessed

and encouraged by others)

I'd love to hear from you...

~Marcia