Ultimately, to prepare for his return.
I can get so hurried and anxious and out of time that I lose it.
I lose vision, I lose stamina, I lose love for myself and others, and I lose sight of my purpose. I overcommit. I forget to be thankful. I live for myself and for my glory.
...And here come the holidays.
THANKSGIVING: A holiday set aside to remember what we are thankful for. I read a blog the other day that said November is the most likely month that one will be diagnosed with depression. And that doesn't surprise me.
And I am no exception.
The time change affects me greatly, finances are more stretched during the holidays, and as a single person, honestly, holidays can be a dread.
But, do you hear a pattern? All of those factors are external.
(By the way, I love the "I am thankful for..." posts on Facebook.
What a perspective and how encouraging!
A refreshing change of pace from the "norm" on Facebook!)
This Thanksgiving, as I think about joining with my Heavenly Father in "Taking Back Eden", I choose to look to him and I choose gratitude.
I choose joy.
I choose to live in his grace.
I choose to extend grace.
And I choose to share grace.
I choose to look to his promises that fill me with hope.
I choose to look upon the face of my Savior.
I choose to thank him:
for who he is, for who he is making me, for the gifts AND trials he gives me, and for who you are.
I choose to walk hand in hand with him, to love, and to anxiously await the coming of my Savior.
"...But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ..."
Philippians 3:20
THANKSGIVING: A holiday set aside to remember what we are thankful for. I read a blog the other day that said November is the most likely month that one will be diagnosed with depression. And that doesn't surprise me.
And I am no exception.
The time change affects me greatly, finances are more stretched during the holidays, and as a single person, honestly, holidays can be a dread.
But, do you hear a pattern? All of those factors are external.
(By the way, I love the "I am thankful for..." posts on Facebook.
What a perspective and how encouraging!
A refreshing change of pace from the "norm" on Facebook!)
This Thanksgiving, as I think about joining with my Heavenly Father in "Taking Back Eden", I choose to look to him and I choose gratitude.
I choose joy.
I choose to live in his grace.
I choose to extend grace.
And I choose to share grace.
I choose to look to his promises that fill me with hope.
I choose to look upon the face of my Savior.
I choose to thank him:
for who he is, for who he is making me, for the gifts AND trials he gives me, and for who you are.
I choose to walk hand in hand with him, to love, and to anxiously await the coming of my Savior.
"...But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ..."
Philippians 3:20
I love this.... I can relate to that longing for Eden. Our hearts were made to long for God and for a relationship with him. It's easy for me to look back now and see how I mistaked that longing that God had created in me for so many other things.
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