Small things.
What are small things?
What are somethings, that in your daily life, you call small things you enjoy?
Or maybe they are something else?
I have come to see that the small things in my life are things that God blesses me with and they lead to other things. Sometimes we become so caught up with growing in everything we can, that we forget or simply overlook the daily blessing God gives us. I have come to realize that our father gives us so much everyday and that a simple mind change would cause us to see it in it’s true light.
The other day I awoke in a great mood and was great until about lunch. For some reason I just got pissy. For no reason at all. An attack from the enemy to take away from what my day should be and from what God gives me to bring to others. I put my headphones on and go do the dishes to get away from people so I don’t react in a bad way. I go to my room and read something that someone had written me about nothing is too small to pray for. So I was like ok God, cheer me up. So I grab my computer to go lay in a hammock and do my C and Cs. I am there for about 20 minutes and he comes our squad leader Joshua Maisner and he has a look in his face that I only knew was going to be good. HE had asked our contact the day before that if we have chicken for dinner, he wanted to kill it. So I knew this was a time to be cheered up.
Now before I go on, let me mention that at that very second, not just in my life but in every ones, you have to DECIDE to get up. To get up off your bucket and be cheered up. Sometimes we get caught up in the things that are putting us in the bad mood, that we miss the things God gives us to help us. So remember that people. You can’t be cheered up, unless YOU choose. God provides, but he won’t change your attitude for you.
Back to the story….I get up and head around to back to capture this all on camera. Yes….I got it and no it won’t be put on the internet…..lol. Put needless to say it was JUST what I was needing. No I am not saying I enjoy death or things like that, but unless you know Josh, then you would not know that he is an absolute hilarious person. Especially when put into situations like that. He is a true joy and someone I intend to stay in contact with for the remainder of my life. So that gets me out of my funk so I decide to continue to stay that way. We head to the corner store down the road for some cold refreshments. I go with a Cocapina, which is a delicious blend of coconut and pineapple. And if my memory serves me correctly, I believe Josh enjoys the same treat as me. We head back and some of the girls are about to watch Mighty Ducks, which is an all time classic in my book, but Josh and I opt out and go to find something else to watch. I mention Furious Love since I hadn’t seen it and I knew he hadn’t. We choose on that and sit down outside to watch it. Our other squad leader, Lia Frederick, is in a hammock next to where we sit down so she hears what is going on and decides to join us. We start it up and dive into what we have all heard as an amazing documentary. We are in the middle of it and Tara Reed, who is the team leader I am paired with this month, comes in and is intrigued by our faces. She asks what we are watching and we tell her and I don’t think she had ever heard of it. She asks a few later if it is a Christian movie and you can tell that her curiosity in now peaked. A few minutes later she is sitting behind us watching the movie. If you haven’t seen it back home, I highly recommend it, but only if you want to be wrecked in how you may think in terms of love. God’s love. (there are also some tough, but good parts in the movie, so be forewarned) Without going into too much detail, for it isn’t my story to tell, Tara begins to break down in tears. She is consumed with something that has been inside her for so long. She ends up on the ground face down crying. She has come to see that what we all thought love was, was in fact nowhere close to where God loves and that we have so much more to learn. With her vulnerability and breaking, she brought a few others into that place where they wanted more including myself. Some were crying. Some were laughing. One person even fell on me as the spirit manifested in her. I on the other hand didn’t have those reactions. Instead, mine came in more detail the next day when I had some more conversations with Tara and the squad leaders. Just seeing that the more I had been asking for, has already been given and that I NEED to choose into it. To take the boldness I had asked for and be BOLD. To take the wisdom he had given me, and USE it. To take the discernment he had given me and USE it. To take all 3 and be who I needed to be. Since then I have stepped more into being more of who I think God wants me to be. I saw that I was asking my team to do things that I wasn’t fully ready to do. But now I am not letting those things hold me back.
So that is something that I have comes across here lately. That everything we are going through is a result of prayers in the past. And it is all on how we perceive our days, that shows where our joy, struggles and everything else comes from. Begin to open your eyes to the small things that God gives us. Then watch, when you choose into those things and let God do his thing, as your perception of life becomes different.
