4-01pm
It’s been coming on slowly…little complaints, moans and groans. They have to go! This is life and complaining about it certainly is not going to add value or positive flavour to it. In fact, if anything, complaining does nothing but make it toxic. Sometimes the very things that bring the complaints are also actually the things that bring the greatest sense of satisfaction….like work! Mike is so good at getting on with the jobs that you generally don’t like. After 26 years of marriage we have accumulated way, way, way too much paper … there’s paper for everything, old bank statements, records of ”who knows what” from way back when. There is confidential stuff that needs to be shredded, but it’s just too much work! The other day Mike got on with it and slowly but surely I joined in and finally we had moved a whole chunk of it. It felt so good. It’s like exercise. Hard to start but once you get going, it’s not that bad and when you’re finished, you feel great! I don’t think we will actually get to this stage though…
We can’t control our home circumstances at the moment, but we can control our environment, so that’s what we are aiming for!
It’s been a quiet day. I got up, did my Bible reading, went to church… Pastor John preached on the Holy Spirit…right on track. What would I do without the Holy Spirit in my life? I don’t want to go back there! The ongoing, daily, Holy Spirit refreshing is what drives me. His prompting, His strengthening, His convicting, His reassurance, His empowering, His fruit. One day at a time in the power of the Holy Spirit. 🙂
I stopped by the shop for rolls and pineapple for Hawaiian chicken burgers for lunch. Came home, made lunch, did show prep, had a sleep and now am about to post my blog.
Words to memorize:
Philippians 2:1-4 Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, 2 then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. 3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.
God bless you!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂