While my youngest was off galavanting to Belleville for a Bible Quizzing Tournament and to Mont Cascades skiing this weekend, I had the opportunity to spend some one-on-one time with my eldest.
We had great fun playing some games of Quirkle, watching a couple of movies ("Time Changer" and "The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe"), and researching some new healthy recipes.
So nice to have time to do some things that have nothing to do with disability. All in all a great weekend.
Sunday 15 January 2017
Friday 13 January 2017
A New Perspective on Prayer
I had an interesting experience the other day.
I was faced with a great opportunity in which I saw no way to make a reality.
Instead of working my brain to a frazzle, I prayed with my prayer partner. When we finished praying, I got off the phone and still felt like trying to figure it all out myself. I still felt my brain was on the hamster wheel.
I could have kept praying. I could have kept it front and centre in my thoughts. I could have worried it to death.
Instead, I proclaimed who God is.
Lord, You are all wise. You are creative. You are God over all logistics. I TRUST You to figure this out. I TRUST Your wisdom. I TRUST whatever answer You give.
And guess what. I had an incredible and sudden inspiration. It was out of the box thinking. It was a God thoguht. And it worked! Opportunity is now reality!
I was faced with a great opportunity in which I saw no way to make a reality.
Instead of working my brain to a frazzle, I prayed with my prayer partner. When we finished praying, I got off the phone and still felt like trying to figure it all out myself. I still felt my brain was on the hamster wheel.
I could have kept praying. I could have kept it front and centre in my thoughts. I could have worried it to death.
Instead, I proclaimed who God is.
Lord, You are all wise. You are creative. You are God over all logistics. I TRUST You to figure this out. I TRUST Your wisdom. I TRUST whatever answer You give.
And guess what. I had an incredible and sudden inspiration. It was out of the box thinking. It was a God thoguht. And it worked! Opportunity is now reality!
Sunday 8 January 2017
The Inconvenient Prayer
We know it's a good thing to do. A priority even.
And yet aside from breath prayers throughout the day, grace at meals and good morning and good night prayers with the kids, dedicated prayer time is hard to do.
A friend and I started praying on an almost daily basis a few months ago, and yet once the immediate prayer need was no longer an issue, life once again got in the way and our daily phone calls started to taper off.
Yes, phone calls. That in itself was a revolution! it just doesn't work to alwasy be in physical proximity, so we began the phone prayer. And it worked - for a time.
Since Christmas, we have attempted to get back up and runring with our phone prayers. But it's hard!
We have come to the conclusion that prayer is often inconvenient.
So, we call it our "inconvenient prayer time," and we do it anyway.We phone even if it means we have 2 mintues. Even if it means we have other things to do. Even if we don't know if the other person is free. And if we receive the call and it is inconvenient, we pray anyway, because it is our "inconvenient prayer time."
It is a statement to all the powers and principalities that God is first. Prayer is important. Inconvenience is a given and God is worth the inconvenience!
And yet aside from breath prayers throughout the day, grace at meals and good morning and good night prayers with the kids, dedicated prayer time is hard to do.
A friend and I started praying on an almost daily basis a few months ago, and yet once the immediate prayer need was no longer an issue, life once again got in the way and our daily phone calls started to taper off.
Yes, phone calls. That in itself was a revolution! it just doesn't work to alwasy be in physical proximity, so we began the phone prayer. And it worked - for a time.
Since Christmas, we have attempted to get back up and runring with our phone prayers. But it's hard!
We have come to the conclusion that prayer is often inconvenient.
So, we call it our "inconvenient prayer time," and we do it anyway.We phone even if it means we have 2 mintues. Even if it means we have other things to do. Even if we don't know if the other person is free. And if we receive the call and it is inconvenient, we pray anyway, because it is our "inconvenient prayer time."
It is a statement to all the powers and principalities that God is first. Prayer is important. Inconvenience is a given and God is worth the inconvenience!
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