dar334

Our daughter mentioned the beautiful sunrise this morning that I saw as I sat at the kitchen table waiting for the coffee to finish dripping that would lift me up and make me capable of tackling whatever is on my path today, which starts with my Instruction Manual being the cream in my cup.  I opened up my iPad and went straight to my email for my daily reading courtesy of BibleGateway.com.  The first thing I saw was a recent WordPress post from the Comeback Pastor.  This young pastor touches my heart with his real life accounts that sometimes hit a little too close to one particular heartbreak we experienced too.  It is my belief that the Holy Spirit was able to pick him up and put him back on the right path.  

Now back to the reading that spurred me to write.  In this pastor’s post he quoted from 1 Corinthians 4 in which Paul wrote about current sufferings.  Considering the road we are walking on now, this type of scripture is what’s keeping me from falling off the cliff beside us.  As usual, I went straight to my Instruction Manual (Kindle version) to read it there and then tap to the study note.  (At this point I filled my coffee cup and headed to my Quiet Room since Hawkeye and Trapper John were distracting me;  goodbye beautiful sunrise, hello freshly combined bean field that triggered the gleaning title.  (#ocdmoment.  My Mom used to glean the white beans after Big Leo finished combining; which when Big Leo saw her doing it he told her all she had to was ask for some and he’d give her some.  But Mom was from the generation where nothing went to waste, so she happily gleaned). Now back to my story.  After reading the verse the young pastor sent me to, I noticed a section just a few verses below it that I had highlighted at one time and quietly read them a few times getting comfort from their message.  I hope you get comfort from them too:

   Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.  So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

In closing so you can ponder that for a minute, remember to thank God for our instructions and his forgiveness when we don’t follow them exactly.

Always pondering,

dar