1. How I am spending time with my kids, God has been talking to me about this recently anyway. I feel like I've been more reactive than proactive with them over the last few weeks. Which is just not effective & leads to bad days. So I am trying to refocus & love the time I get with my kids!
2. This totally caught me off guard, the book is about how & why different families have chosen to homeschool. Well the last story I read was about a Navy family, and she ended her story talking about the next time her husband gets PCS (Permanent Change of Station) orders, school will just go with them.
Which got me thinking not about homeschooling but about transitions. It seems that there is no end to them, and I definitely have moments where I would like to know how to make it stop (not possible or good-I know). And in the middle of that thought God reminded me of this:
13 All these people were still living by faith when they died. They did not receive the things promised; they only saw them and welcomed them from a distance. And they admitted that they were aliens and strangers on earth. 14 People who say such things show that they are looking for a country of their own. 15 If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 Instead, they were longing for a better country - a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.
Hebrews 11:13-16
Not that I am there yet, but I feel like God reminds me of this when we are in the midst of transitions. Even if I could have Brian home right now, there would still be much that God wants us to participate in that would likely lead us right out of our comfort zone again. Glad for a God that I cannot out run, and that is not confined by time & space.
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