Letter to God #2

Dear God,
I've been thinking about when you led the Israelites around in the desert.
Remember that?
Do you also remember giving them an obvious sign of when to move?
I believe you used a pillar of fire and a cloud. 
(Was it a gray storm cloud or a fluffy white cottonball one?)
Anyway,
I've been thinking that perhaps you could do that for me?
Although I would much prefer something more modern.
A facebook shoutout on my homepage, an email, shoot - I'd
even settle for an old-fashioned billboard ad.
Mabe I could throw my old wool sweater out back tonight and see how "dewy" it is tomorrow morning?
...
...
What's that?
...
...
I should "be still" and I'll hear your voice? 
Trust in Your Word?
Be patient and trust in Your timing?
Gaw-od. 
When I asked for a sign, I did not mean
a yield or stop sign!
Well, I better go.
I've gotta figure out a plan here....
Talk to you later,
Britt

Would I Recognize God?

This morning I read Matthew 9:1-9.
(Remember there is a Bible app on the sidebar if your Bible isn't handy)

Jesus goes into his own town and heals a paralytic man - after proclaiming to the paralytic,
"Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven."
Verse 8 says that when the crowd saw this miracle, "they were filled
with awe and praised God, who had given such authority to men."

I'm not a Greek scholar and haven't attended seminary, so I might be wrong;
but it appears to me that the crowd did not recognize
Jesus for Jesus-the-Son-of-God.
The crowd praised GOD for giving their neighbor man Jesus
the power to heal the paralytic.

Hmm - I think I do that.
I tend to think of Jesus as more of a tool than part of the Trinity. 
Someone I use when I am paralyzed by fear and need healing.

Yesterday's Sunday School lesson spoke to my heart concerning this.
Psalms chapter 8:
"O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your name in all the earth!.....
what is man that You are mindful of him?...."

I forget the Lordship and awesomeness of Jesus Christ.
I forget to praise Him ........ just for being GOD,
and not only when He answers "yes" to a cry for help.

Interestingly, in Matthew 9:9, right after Jesus healed the paralytic,
Jesus walks past Matthew the tax collector's booth and says, "Follow Me." 
Matthew gets up, leaves his booth, and follows Jesus. 
I think Matthew recognized Jesus to be more than a man.

I'm not sure I would have.

Two Words

Two Words

A poem...  by Britt...  from God

God says:
     Be Still
     Let Go
     Trust Me

I cry:
    Help Me

God says:
    I AM

Happy New Year...1 week Late

Wow.
I'm amazed I remembered my password to get in here!
Time flies when you're having fun.... and that is what I've been doing the past THREE weeks.
Our family went back "home" to Iowa for Christmas. 
While I missed regular doses of Hotmail, Blogger, and Facebook,
it was wonderful having real face time with loved ones - some whom I hadn't seen in over 2 years.


Last January I stated my goal for the year was to have more "Joy of the Lord".  (Nehemiah 8:10)
Happy to say I'm improved .... although still working on that one.

This year, I want to focus on discovering God's omniscient plan for my life and then resting in His timing.

Psalm 1: 3 should be a nice theme verse.
(v. 1,2) "Blessed is the man whose... delight is in the law of the Lord, and on His law he meditates day and night. (v.3) He is like a tree planted be streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither.  Whatever he does prospers."

Catch that?   "...yields its fruit in season"

I wish I could do it all now. 
Gonna need some prayer for meeting this year's resolution.