This will be my final post from our Loren Street address. Future posts will be from our new Delaware address.
I have mixed feelings about the move. We are excited to be back in the old neighborhood, but I will sure miss the ease of living in a 1998 constructed home as opposed to a 1941 home. So many hours of planning, planting and painting went into this home. But as a friend told me, it is only a house.
As I was praying this morning, the James 1:22-24 came to mind. These verses remind me that merely listening to or reading the Word of God is only the first step. Unless what we hear/read creates a positive change in me, it is the same as looking in a mirror and forgetting what I look like. I am afraid I fall into that category in a lot of ways.
This weekend we spent dozens of hours moving. On many occasions, I was short, irritable and just plain disagreeable. Because of this I robbed much of the joy from Kristi during what should have been an exciting, fun time. It got to the point last night I lost any semblance of composure over the dryer vent. (I hate flexible dryer vent tubing and sheet metal extenders!!) All the hours of church, sermons and Bible study went right out the window.
My prayer is to become a joy giver, not a joy taker. Exhort, not criticize. Laugh rather than frown. I need to ask for Kristi's and Seth's forgiveness. But more importantly, I need to get on my knees in an attitude of repentance to my Heavenly Father for I have not been a "well-done-my-good-and-faithful-servant" Christian this weekend.
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