How are you girls doing? I don't know about you but our summer has been so hectic!
We have had an onslaught of visitors which has been fun but very exhausting. We just had Tara last week and are blessed to have Michelle coming the 24th. Oh and it's hurricane season! Fun. Which means we have a daily torrential downpour which only lasts about 20 min. and makes it more humid than it was before. It also means I shoud have bought stock in a crazy good anti-frizz hair cream. lol.
I hope you all are doing well. What has God been teaching you?
I think the biggest challenge for me lately has been trying to find the romancing of God in the mundane and stillness of life. My life has changed so drastically since being married that I confess, I find this season a little difficult to adjust to. I went from literally scheduling every hour of my day to having nothing but time on my hands! But God is good and I embrace this new chapter of my life :) I think that right now the thing I am learning to appreciate the most is the little things in life that I am usually too busy otherwise to savor. I think if I could title this chapter of my life it would be called "The Excitement of the Mundane" , lol.
I hope your lives are blessed and rich with mundane beauty.
Hugs all!
Ashley
One of my favorite Waterdeep quotes is "the secret ministry of the frost upon the window of your home" this may not be the exact expression of God's beauty that you're seeing in Florida...but I've always loved that lyric b/c His beauty is everywhere-calling to us! Like Psalm 19 says "the skies declare the glory of the Lord, day after day they pour forth speech, night after night they proclaim knowledge, there is no speech or language where their voice is not heard their voice goes out to the ends of the earth" and Romans 1:20 says "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse." Not that creation is mundane at all, it might not be what you're referring too. I know Rich Mullins said he found communion with God in the common things like folding his clothes. Every moment. Ravi Zacharias says time is the paintbrush God uses on the human heart, and although I don't fully understand that quote I know he spoke it out of the wisdom of his life and seeing God's providence worked out in the specific timing of events.
ReplyDeleteummm. what am I learning? well I'm with you on actually having a lot more time than I am used to (for the past 8 weeks, w/ 2 more to go) I'm not sure what I've learned in that except that I feel better being productive and need more self discipline to make that happen. That I shouldn't focus on myself so much but it's hard when you're alone and have time. I've heard the same point made in a sermon by two different speakers I believe, in the past 2 months, a point that I had never heard before in my life. They were talking about when Lazarus died and Jesus wept, and they were saying that wept is not the exact translation but that this word was one that was used for war horses at the time that were snorting mad. That Jesus had created the world good and was angry that his friend died prematurely. One of the speakers was European and said that the idea of being angry at God sometimes expressed in America puzzled him b/c he had always had the concept of being angry along with God at injustice, death etc.