Then he began to curse and swear, saying, “I do not know the Man!” Immediately a rooster crowed. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus who had said to him, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” So he went out and wept bitterly.
As I sat at my radio console at work, in walked one of our community service officers. Working for the police department has its perks, joking and laughing with one another is one of them. The woman began to peruse the discarded newspaper until she found what she was looking for, the horoscope section.
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It’s no secret that us gals are relational. Get a group of women together and we will talk and talk and talk and talk. We can’t help it, it is how God has wired us. When I have something big happen in my life, after talking to my husband, my next impulse is to call my girlfriend Celia, my Elizabeth.
When Jesus’ mother Mary, was given the biggest news of her life, she had no husband to confide in. Her first instinct after her visit from the angel of the Lord, was to immediately go out and seek Godly counsel from her cousin Elizabeth.
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The righteous will flourish like a palm tree,
they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon. (Psalm 92:12 [emphasis mine])
Anything that grows, changes.
Change requires faith. Faith to believe that God is in control and that His plans may not make sense to us, but make perfect sense to Him. I hate change. Admittedly, my faith can be quite weak at times. I am perfectly happy living day in and day out in the comfort of monotony. Red lights flash and sirens scream their shrill warnings if I wander outside of familiarity.
My husband Paul is an attorney.
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God will certainly hear me…Micah 7:7 NLT
Last night I took my Grandma to watch her oldest great-grandchild, my daughter Meghan, sing at her high school’s choir performance. Meg was up on stage with over a hundred other young men and women. Thankfully, Grandma’s poor hearing didn’t stop her from going to Meghan’s special event. At eighty-six years old, Grandma is extremely hard of hearing. She worked in a factory on an assembly line when she was young, long before there were rules about wearing earplugs around loud machinery. Her hearing has suffered greatly because of those working years.
We sat in the audience facing the stage that was filled with a bevy of distinct sounds, these young adults joyfully singing for us.
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Ask the Lord for rain in the springtime; it is the Lord who makes the storm clouds. He gives showers of rain to men, and plants of the field to everyone. Zechariah 10:1
“Sometimes God calms the storm, sometimes He calms the sailor.” Anon
Living in California, we don’t get hurricane warnings, mainly because we don’t get hurricanes. If we did, I would have had a doozy of a storm warning come in last week. My life is just like the fast and furious winds of a quick moving storm lately. Not to mention that trials were pelting me like a torrential downpour.
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The Lord will be the hope of his people. Joel 3:16
Three days last week I was in a training class. I am a part-time 911/Police dispatcher. This class was mandatory to keep my POST (Police Officer Standards Training) certificate current. Two days specifically focused on critical incidents and debriefing after a critical incident occurs. We were shown quite a few videos. Some were so very sad. In one we witnessed the debriefing of the EMT’s from the 1995 Oklahoma City bombings, in another we saw the aftermath of an officer involved shooting and later watched the unthinkable…a dispatcher who takes a 911 call from her own husband who is trying to get an ambulance for their dying seven year old son.
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Don’t be selfish; don’t live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. Don’t think only about your own affairs, but be interested in others, too, and what they are doing. Phil. 2:3-4 NLT
Country singer Toby Keith sings a song that we jokingly sang to our oldest daughter when she was too demanding of our time. Meghan, our sixteen year old, will always remember her father and I singing I Wanna Talk About Me off tune and much too loudly, while we were driving on a family vacation. After what felt like hours of our oldest child talking on and on about herself, her life, her thoughts, her, her, her, we just couldn’t take it anymore.
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Behold, how good and how pleasant it is For brothers to dwell together in unity!
Psalm 133:1
Our youngest son Samuel was thrilled when we signed him up for soccer. At seven years old, nothing screamed “cool” like a reversible soccer jersey. He wore that jersey the whole next week to school. As my youngest of four children, that wasn’t a hill that I was willing to die on. My oldest child Meghan would have never experienced a week-long fashion statement when she was seven. Mainly because I would never have let her. That was a hill I would have died on as a new mom.
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