We just passed our third Sunday of Advent. Dylann is having a good time lighting the candles at the dinner table lately. =o) Couldn't find any tapers in the appropriate colors, so we're using votives, but they work! (And they smell good, too!)
This morning I got up at 4:30 to pray the rosary with Mother Angelica on the radio. Unfortunately, she just goes a little too slow for that hour of the morning, so I had to turn it off and finish on my own or else I was going to fall asleep again!
The past couple of weeks have been very challenging. I find myself praying a lot more than I normally do because some days it just seems like it's one thing after another. I know that I'm at my worst and weakest whenever I don't have control over a situation that seems to be spinning out of control and headed for a brick wall at full speed. I am thankful for the friends I have who keep me lifted up and focused in the right direction and don't let me forget that God can perform miracles. If he can create the heavens and earth in six days, he can certainly fix the tiny things in my life!
My main problem is knowing when to let go, when to give these problems to Him and stop trying to fiddle with them on my own. Sometimes my capacity to do something is very limited and, being hard-headed and stubborn like I am, I usually don't want to accept that. I don't always have to be the one with the answers. I don't always have to be the one to pull the drowning man to shore, so to speak. Sometimes I have to let people deal with their own crisis so that it will bring them closer to God. I know that I didn't turn to Him when I felt at my strongest. No, I was at my weakest point, my most vulnerable, and I felt like I had nothing and could DO nothing with my life. "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds." (Psalm 147:3) For so long I had pushed God away, wanted nothing to do with him, and one day I finally realized that I had NOTHING because I didn't have Him. I was trying to do my own thing and "my own thing" just wasn't working.
So today I'm going to pray that whatever I'm asked to do, I am able to do with a cheerful heart and spirit because God is good all the time, and all the time, God is good. =o)
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
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Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Can't Fix Everything
We just passed our third Sunday of Advent. Dylann is having a good time lighting the candles at the dinner table lately. =o) Couldn't find any tapers in the appropriate colors, so we're using votives, but they work! (And they smell good, too!)
This morning I got up at 4:30 to pray the rosary with Mother Angelica on the radio. Unfortunately, she just goes a little too slow for that hour of the morning, so I had to turn it off and finish on my own or else I was going to fall asleep again!
The past couple of weeks have been very challenging. I find myself praying a lot more than I normally do because some days it just seems like it's one thing after another. I know that I'm at my worst and weakest whenever I don't have control over a situation that seems to be spinning out of control and headed for a brick wall at full speed. I am thankful for the friends I have who keep me lifted up and focused in the right direction and don't let me forget that God can perform miracles. If he can create the heavens and earth in six days, he can certainly fix the tiny things in my life!
My main problem is knowing when to let go, when to give these problems to Him and stop trying to fiddle with them on my own. Sometimes my capacity to do something is very limited and, being hard-headed and stubborn like I am, I usually don't want to accept that. I don't always have to be the one with the answers. I don't always have to be the one to pull the drowning man to shore, so to speak. Sometimes I have to let people deal with their own crisis so that it will bring them closer to God. I know that I didn't turn to Him when I felt at my strongest. No, I was at my weakest point, my most vulnerable, and I felt like I had nothing and could DO nothing with my life. "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds." (Psalm 147:3) For so long I had pushed God away, wanted nothing to do with him, and one day I finally realized that I had NOTHING because I didn't have Him. I was trying to do my own thing and "my own thing" just wasn't working.
So today I'm going to pray that whatever I'm asked to do, I am able to do with a cheerful heart and spirit because God is good all the time, and all the time, God is good. =o)
This morning I got up at 4:30 to pray the rosary with Mother Angelica on the radio. Unfortunately, she just goes a little too slow for that hour of the morning, so I had to turn it off and finish on my own or else I was going to fall asleep again!
The past couple of weeks have been very challenging. I find myself praying a lot more than I normally do because some days it just seems like it's one thing after another. I know that I'm at my worst and weakest whenever I don't have control over a situation that seems to be spinning out of control and headed for a brick wall at full speed. I am thankful for the friends I have who keep me lifted up and focused in the right direction and don't let me forget that God can perform miracles. If he can create the heavens and earth in six days, he can certainly fix the tiny things in my life!
My main problem is knowing when to let go, when to give these problems to Him and stop trying to fiddle with them on my own. Sometimes my capacity to do something is very limited and, being hard-headed and stubborn like I am, I usually don't want to accept that. I don't always have to be the one with the answers. I don't always have to be the one to pull the drowning man to shore, so to speak. Sometimes I have to let people deal with their own crisis so that it will bring them closer to God. I know that I didn't turn to Him when I felt at my strongest. No, I was at my weakest point, my most vulnerable, and I felt like I had nothing and could DO nothing with my life. "He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds." (Psalm 147:3) For so long I had pushed God away, wanted nothing to do with him, and one day I finally realized that I had NOTHING because I didn't have Him. I was trying to do my own thing and "my own thing" just wasn't working.
So today I'm going to pray that whatever I'm asked to do, I am able to do with a cheerful heart and spirit because God is good all the time, and all the time, God is good. =o)
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