Category: God

At church yesterday we had a reading from 2 Samuel, chapter 9.  It wasn’t a story I knew well, but in essence it told of David looking for a way to show God’s kindness to the descendants of his friend.  I happened to go to the morning and evening services yesterday, and having listened to 2 sermons on the topic, I’m finding that it keeps resurfacing in my brain.  And since I have some child-free time today, I thought I might take a bit of time to process what I was learning yesterday by getting some writing done for once (it’s been a long time since I even turned my computer on, let alone actually wrote something). 

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Do you like to be in control?  I do.  Don’t get me wrong, I love surprises (as long as I don’t know they’re coming) but I also like to know what to expect from my day and I like to have plenty of say in what happens during it.  I like to be able to do something about the things that worry me.  I’m definitely not the sort of person who can put worries to one side just because there’s absolutely nothing I can do at that point in time to influence them.  My husband finds that bizarre.  He’s the opposite – if he can’t change something at a given moment, then he simply puts it out of his mind until he can change it. 

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Happy Ash Wednesday to you all!  I hope all my readers ate too many pancakes and enjoyed celebrating Shrove Tuesday yesterday.  We had a very pancake-y dinner at home with crispy duck pancakes for our main course followed by more pancakes for pud.  And after the fun of Shrove Tuesday, here we are, in Lent.  Ash Wednesday always seems like a bit of a solemn day to me.  So many good intentions to be better, healthier, godlier…

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