New Year, new week, new word....living day by day. I started a new devotional which is based off a best seller. I have wanted to read this book for some time, and came across her devotional. Day to day suits me right now.
I have a birdhouse right out my bedroom window and as I am having my devotions each morning, I see the tiny sparrows alighting and eating. Yes, this is for me right now :) It's all about grace and thankfulness in each day. In every moment. Day by day.
Just a few thoughts...and I am quoting Ann Voskamp :
"Eve's thanklessness for all God does give and her resentfulness of the one fruit He doesn't give, this is the catalyst of the fall." In typing this, I realized I read it wrong the first time; I read her 'restlessness of the one fruit'. Still rather fits, I think.
"Our fall is always a failure to give thanks."
"All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting." (Mark Buchanan)
In the proverbial nutshell - When we FORGET, we don't THANK GOD. Paul begins his letter to the Romans with "First, I thank my God..." Romans 1:8
Thankfulness.
Day by Day.
Not forgetting. God tells the Israelites OFTEN to write it down, write it down, write it down, lest they FORGET. This is why.
I love journaling. Going to do it even more this year. Day by day. Lest I forget. Not a difficult thing. I can do this. Not just in November. Day by day.
In the mess of the day....in the busyness of getting ready for a month of intense ministry....in the joys and in the struggles.
"First, I thank my God...."
Just a few thoughts...and I am quoting Ann Voskamp :
"Eve's thanklessness for all God does give and her resentfulness of the one fruit He doesn't give, this is the catalyst of the fall." In typing this, I realized I read it wrong the first time; I read her 'restlessness of the one fruit'. Still rather fits, I think.
"Our fall is always a failure to give thanks."
"All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting." (Mark Buchanan)
In the proverbial nutshell - When we FORGET, we don't THANK GOD. Paul begins his letter to the Romans with "First, I thank my God..." Romans 1:8
Thankfulness.
Day by Day.
Not forgetting. God tells the Israelites OFTEN to write it down, write it down, write it down, lest they FORGET. This is why.
I love journaling. Going to do it even more this year. Day by day. Lest I forget. Not a difficult thing. I can do this. Not just in November. Day by day.
In the mess of the day....in the busyness of getting ready for a month of intense ministry....in the joys and in the struggles.
"First, I thank my God...."
