It totally just dawned on me that today is January 31st. On January 2nd, I talked about goals – one being to blog 4 days week through the entire month of January. Here I am…7 o’clock on the last Tuesday in January… and I am SO proud to say I ACCOMPLISHED this goal! It feels amazing – knowing that for so long, I’ve desired to blog more, but for one reason or another, I failed to make it happen. Several of you followed me through this short journey, and to EACH OF YOU, I want to say thanks.
I feel it is fitting to end the month with another goal in mind: Project 52. Today, I’m posting week 3′s theme, which was last week by the way. Next week, I’ll post week 4, and so on and so forth…this way I have the entire week to take my picture!
Week 3′s theme is a bit broad – almost too broad for my liking. It leaves the door wide open for interpretation which sometimes leaves my creative juices at a loss for where to focus! But I finally made a decision…and here is the end result:
TRUST.
Time and time again, the Lord reminds me to trust…specifically in regards to finances. With a new baby on the way, unexpected expenses tend to creep up and surprise you when you least expect them! I see the money in verses the money out and I ask, “How God? Where are you?” I sinfully doubt. I sinfully worry. I live as if He is not in control, and as if He doesn’t already know my needs. In Matthew 6, Jesus says, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?” (emphasis mine).
Yesterday, on my way to the mailbox, I told my mother-in-law, Luanne, I was hoping for cash. Confused, she asked, “Well does somebody owe you money?” I replied, “No, I’m just hoping we’ll get lucky one day!” I opened the mailbox, and there was an unexpected $30 check in there addressed to me. From where? THE PEDIATRICIAN?
This short story is such an amazing example of God’s faithfulness. And you know what I’m most ashamed of? I wasn’t even asking for the money. The Lord took it upon himself to provide a little extra in a time of need. Continue reading beyond Matthew chapter 6 and you’ll stumble upon a verse in Matthew 7: “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.”
Thank you, Lord, for reminding me to ask…to seek you daily and to make my requests known to you. And thank you, Lord, for reminding me to trust…in ALL things…TRUST you wholly and completely.
I plan to do all the weeks I’ve missed, I just can’t quite let go of the specific ideas I’ve come up with.
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