Ephesians 3:20-21
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above
all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us, to
Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever
and ever. Amen.
I know that there have been times when I have driven everyone crazy with my whining about not having a date or about being single. But my primary prayer (other than "please make this happen NOW, Lord") was that I not have to go through the whole dating scene. I didn't want to have to worry about meeting new people and all the awkward moments. I didn't want to worry about when or if they should meet my kids, or the impact that dating might have on them. I didn't want to get myself into another bad situation (which I really tried hard to do at one point...thank You God for not allowing that to happen). I just didn't want to deal with it. I asked the Lord to bring someone in my life that when I met him I would know that he is the one, and that he would know that I was the one.
I had just about given up on that prayer, but then I met Scott. About six months ago mutual friends of ours started trying to set us up, but it wasn't until three weeks ago that we finally met. To say that we hit it off would be a major understatement. Scott is by far the nicest man that I have ever met. I feel like I have known him forever. We jokingly say that we feel like a couple of teenagers!
I have never had anyone that treated me the way he has in the last three weeks. I know people will lecture us about taking things slow (we joke about that, too) but I have never felt so comfortable with someone. He is everything that I asked God for and more. He feels the same way about me.
Before anyone starts making arrangements to attend our wedding, we aren't engaged (yet..LOL), and we know that there are a lot of other things we need to know about each other. But we feel at home. We feel comfortable. We feel like God has definitely answered our prayers. My God has done more than I could have ever asked for, He has gone above anything that I could have thought of. I stand back in amazement of how He orchestrated our meeting, and cannot wait to see what He has next. My heart is overflowing....I truly know what it means for God to answer exceedingly and abundantly above all that I asked for.
I can't wait to tell you more about him....
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
The Peace Lily
I brought a peace lily home to keep from my Step-dad's funeral last December with the hope that it might not suffer the fate of other plants that came before it. My mom assured me that they are easy care, hard to kill plants even after I reminded her that I have killed a cactus! Well, at first my plant seemed to be doing very well, however, when you don't remove the plastic out of the bottom of the pot, they can get a disease called "root rot" (I learned this the hard way). After my sister diagnosed my plant, I went in search of the solution on the internet...hoping that I can somehow save my plant.
What I read was that in order to save the plant you have to take it out of the pot, remove all the dead, rotten roots, and then put it into a new pot with new soil which will hopefully promote new growth.
Like when Jesus saves us. Be it the initial acceptance of Jesus as our Savior, or the way He "prunes" us so that we can grow and become all that He wants us to be. Pride, envy, anger, sin, insecurity...those are things, like the dead roots on my plant, that choke the life out of us and keep us from growing. Sometimes we can appear to be growing and branching out, but if we are harboring things in our lives that do not line up with the Word of God, it won't be long before our leaves turn brown and our branches fall over. We cannot be effective witnesses for Christ or lead our families the way we are supposed to if our "roots" are rotten. John 15: 2 tells us that the things in our lives that do not bear fruit must be cut back so that new things can grow.
I have done like the internet article said and removed all the dead roots from my plant (thankfully, not all of the roots were damaged and there is one leaf hanging on for now). And I pray that not only will this removal give my plant new life, I pray that this experience will always remind me to let God remove the "rotten roots" from around my own heart.
John 5: 21 "For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will"
What I read was that in order to save the plant you have to take it out of the pot, remove all the dead, rotten roots, and then put it into a new pot with new soil which will hopefully promote new growth.
Like when Jesus saves us. Be it the initial acceptance of Jesus as our Savior, or the way He "prunes" us so that we can grow and become all that He wants us to be. Pride, envy, anger, sin, insecurity...those are things, like the dead roots on my plant, that choke the life out of us and keep us from growing. Sometimes we can appear to be growing and branching out, but if we are harboring things in our lives that do not line up with the Word of God, it won't be long before our leaves turn brown and our branches fall over. We cannot be effective witnesses for Christ or lead our families the way we are supposed to if our "roots" are rotten. John 15: 2 tells us that the things in our lives that do not bear fruit must be cut back so that new things can grow.
I have done like the internet article said and removed all the dead roots from my plant (thankfully, not all of the roots were damaged and there is one leaf hanging on for now). And I pray that not only will this removal give my plant new life, I pray that this experience will always remind me to let God remove the "rotten roots" from around my own heart.
John 5: 21 "For as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them, even so the Son gives life to whom He will"
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