Blessings

What did the Lord talk with me about today? Blessings. How I am so blessed. I am blessed to have parents who spoke to me with such a rich vocabulary that I can pass that on to my kids. Parents who gave me a strong Christian foundation. Parents who still help me out today.

I am also blessed to have a very loving husband. He loves me "as Christ loved the church." How do I know this? He fills my love tank with my love language. (Don't know about love languages? Read the book, The Five Love Languages. Sorry, I'm bad about remembering author's names. {o;)

I am blessed to live in the USA, especially Texas, where I can homeschool more freely than most states. Even though we are at a critical time (Biblically-speaking), I am blessed to live right now.

Am I doing this to brag? No! I believe the Lord wants everyone to count their blessings and to "be content with what you have, because God has said, 'Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.'" Heb. 13:5b

Now that I just looked up that verse, I see there is a first part: "Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have..." That just opens up a whole new can of worms. Could I learn another lesson in one day? Yup. I need to quit worrying about the smell of my carpet in the living room and be thankful I have a living room. I need to quit thinking about the bunk bed I want Andrew to have. When the time comes for us to need it, it will be provided. Now my question is this: does that mean we shouldn't dream, plan, or save to buy things? When I finally am fully content with what I have, then will the stuff I've longed for fall in my lap? Ha-ha! Of course not, but some things will change or the things I've longed for won't be so important and something better will come about. In the meantime, I guess praying that the smell will leave the carpet isn't bad because it doesn't take any money for the smell to miraculously disappear (and everyone says they can't smell anything anyway). And I guess I should quit worrying if the bills will be paid or not because He's always provided before, and He does say, "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 important than food, and the body more important 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? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?" Matt. 6:25-27

O.K., so three lessons in one blog. Whew! I'm done learning for the day. Oops! Guess not. I just impatiently yelled at kid #3. Now for the lesson in patience and (yes, there's always an and) that children are more important than blogs. Better go serve the cookies.