I tell you what! There are days that just seem l-o-n-g! Generally, they are days when I get a disappointment, or wrestle with anger about something… that probably happens to all of us. Well, I ran onto this Scripture at the chapter-end of Priscilla’s strategy on Your Past. It seems appropriate today. It’s Isaiah 43:18-19a, and it reads like this: Thus says the LORD … Do not call to mind the former things Or ponder things of the past. Behold, I will do something new, Now it will spring forth; Will you not be aware of it? …. Will you be aware of it when God does something NEW? Sometimes the greatest changes happen in us without our participation. That’s one of my guiding principles for knowing when God has done something in me (as opposed to changes I may have manufactured within myself). Those changes may feel like discomfort with a healthy dose of passivity thrown in. They may first be noticed in a situation, circumstance, or whatever, when previously resistance and/or even anger may have been the response. Yet, the old way has gone. I could laugh when I tell you that I am often surprised when one of these changes appears for the first time realizing how out-of-my-control my behavior in that moment is. How thankful I am in God’s loving touch to help me when he recognizes readiness to improve on what I could laughingly call my countenance. So, will you be aware of it? When change comes that you had nothing to do with? When you recognize it’s pleasant result and realize you have done no wonderful thing to create this change ~ but that God had taken mere readiness and shaped it a little. And then it’s time to giggle and thank our LORD and God for his kindness and sense of humor. ~ Andi
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