3-27pm
One Slight Error …
Today I beetled off to work, all happy. All went well. Except, I learnt a piece of information. There was a 12 noon staff meeting! I couldn’t believe that I had overlooked it. One little issue – I didn’t bring in extra food! That meant that for the best part of 8 hours I hadn’t eaten! I felt really bad…I was light headed and CRABBY!!! Usually when I stay beyond 11am, I have extra food. Today I was intending to leave at 11am, so was entirely thrown.
Anyway, pleased to say, I’ve now had a piece of liquorice (on the way home), a dozen almonds, a (home-made) cappuccino and a small lemon cream! A bit of an odd ‘lunch’ but it worked! I think the cappuccino is absolutely doing the trick!
I don’t know what has happened with my cell phone connection early in the morning. I take the sunrise photo and try and upload it and it doesn’t go. I was not successful yesterday morning and this morning was the same…anyway, here it is….
I was very glad last night, to catch this freaky (but harmless, I think) little fellow, who was about a metre away from my bed, very close to my bathroom light switch…
Shiver! A harmless rain spider! (Still …shiver!)
What to when peppered with negativity. Sometimes, I feel that I have to be ‘deactivated’. It feels I’ve got so much going on in my brain, I need to be rebooted, or as Mike wants to do to the netbook on which I am typing, ‘flattened’, or sometimes ‘defragged.’ On the way home, I pondered how to ‘wipe out’ all the negative thoughts in my brain… and I reverted back to 2 Corinthians 10:5 “We take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” It is amazing how fear often rules our minds, negativity plagues our thoughts and worry seeps into the fibre of our being. Here’s my solution…when you find yourself fretting, worried, negative, grab the thoughts, toss ’em out and replace them with the Word of God. Think about what you are thinking about – if it’s negative, take that thought and respond to it. This morning when I woke up, I said to myself, ‘today is going to be a good day.’ The thought popped into my mind, ‘Why? How do you do know?’ Responding to that doubt, I pulled out Kay Warren’s definition of joy – ‘I know today is going to be a good day because God is in control of every detail of my life and I know everything is going to be okay and for this reason I can praise the Lord in all circumstances.’ God’s got me in His grip. He goes before me. With Him there are no surprises. ‘I know the plans I have for you,’ says the Lord, ‘plans for a hope and a future, plans to prosper you and not to harm you.‘ Yes! Today is going to be a good day!’I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.‘ Yes! Today is going to be a good day! ‘I lift up my eyes to the hills, where does your help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth!’ Yes! Today is going to be a good day! Those negative thoughts MELT away…scuttling out of sight, wimpering in the corner, conquered by the Word of God – it is powerful, sharper than a two-edged sword.
All I have to do, is work on the habit…feel crabby? ‘The joy of the Lord is my strength.‘ Feel light-headed? ‘They that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength…’
Such a good lesson for me! I believe the Bible has an answer for everything…even the things we don’t understand.
Learning the Word of God is never wasted.
God bless you loads!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂