This morning is gonna be the great! Finally, I have coffee! It has been almost month since we have had a chance to buy groceries. And for some reason, I just had to have the fancy schmancy single cup coffee maker that you can hardly find coffee pods for… Anyway, we bought groceries and things are getting better I can tell. I can tell by the smell of coffee and burning blueberry eggo waffles. It smells allot like a routine. Hmmmm a routine. That sounds (and smells) nice and normal.
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Read Deuteronomy 1:20-31 …A few days ago a friend sent me the Early Light devotional. It is funny how God prepares you for receiving His word. This was one in a string of about 5 related referrals. All of which were addressing an issue that I have been dealing with for a while now… Yup, you’ve guessed it… fear. Has God ever brought you to the threshold of an open door and said, “have at it, this is yours?” But then you look through the doorway and are terrified by the things you see on the other side? In Deuteronomy 1:20-31 God led Moses and Israelites to the edge of the promised land and basically said, “have at it… its yours.” Instead of charging into the Hill Country of the Amorites, they sent spies to go ahead and assess the situation. They were scared and held up in the doorway, disobeying God. Charles Stanley called it “dithering in the doorway.”
I have been praying pretty solidly for opened and closed doors. One door that is obviously opened has me “dithering in the doorway” because of the fear I have about what may or may not be on the other side. Have you been here? Are you on the edge of the “Hill Country of the Amorites?” Remember, God brought us here, to this point in our lives. He knows what he is doing. And no, he does not hate us or intend for us to be destroyed (Deut. 1:27).
It is hard to know in any present moment whether or not we are doing exactly God’s will. We can always look in hind sight and see his hand at work. But it is hard sometimes to know what He wills… especially if several doors are opened before us. So when trying to make big decisions and follow his will, all we need to do is walk through the open doors in faith, knowing the He is sovereign. And if we have by some chance chosen the wrong door, he will fix it… He always does. God is good!
Deuteronomy 1:30-31:
“The Lord your God who goes before you will Himself fight on your behalf, just as He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, just as a man carries his son, in all the way which you have walked until you came to this place.”
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I am sorry for all the posts with our wonder dog, Piper. I promise I am not obsessed with her. Part of the problem is that I have this new camera and have been able to capture her really strange and wonderful personality in photo. She is so funny! She never pays any attention to the TV unless there is some animal on and she happens to see it. However, for Christmas I received my very own copy of Planet Earth (BBC Version) on Blue Ray. By the way, it is absolutely FANTASTIC if you have not seen it. Anyway, Piper for some reason loves it too. She sat and watched two whole episodes with me, frequently getting up to go sniff the screen, look behind the TV and then check the window to see if we had moved. It is one of the funniest things I have ever seen! I have heard that dogs can’t see TV… hmmm. I don’t think little Baylee can, he could care less!
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I wonder how many blog titles there are out there right now with that headline? I also wonder how many blog posts there are out there in the blogosphere addressing new year’s resolutions and all that jazz. I guess it is just like how busy health clubs are this time of year… Oh well. I am feeling it though. Since Ironman, I have put on the weight and struggled for motivation to continue training, especially through my ankle injury. So far I have been in the gym once and been on two bike rides this year. I would love to run but staying up late and hanging out with old friends around the chiminea has kept me from it as of late. Having the New Year fall in the middle of the week was nice. It really feels like it has been a long vacation. Aside from taking down all of the Christmas decorations, I got the chance to do allot of things I have been wanting to do but lacked the time… namely work on the suspension and brakes on the Suzuki.
It is raining and 32 degrees this morning. What a way to start the work year. I am nervous and excited to see what happens with the Wells Fargo Wachovia merger. I am sure things will be fine, but change is always difficult and the uncertainty unbearable.
By the way, I gave Rebecca her own website for Christmas, so don’t forget to check her out at rebeccadurrett.com
Have a great day!
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Don’t let the sign fool you… it looks nice, which is how I chose the location from the other three options, but this place was a dump. But I guess at 2:30 in the morning, anything will do!
Like always, we were late leaving town. I am not sure why, but we can never seem to get things together to leave on time. You would think that at some point we would build in some sort of buffer. Oh well, we made Memphis by midnight and tried to push on to Nashville. However, somewhere around Brownsville, TN we decided to stop. When two Monster Energy drinks and a Full Throttle begins to make you sleepy, it is time to stop. That, and me singing old and Texas country songs at the top of my lungs was beginning to take a toll on my traveling companions.
It’s a good thing we pushed on through Memphis… this morning we turned on the news and heard the reports of sleet and freezing rain in Memphis. Thankfully, we were just North East of the mess (thank you Lord!) Nonetheless, we quickly packed the car and headed on to Nashville. It is good to be here and not driving or working! We lounged around most of the day and I even had some time to walk around in the woods a little. I took these photos:
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