Thankful Tuesday

This is a daily devotion from a few days ago that just really hit home, now that momma and I have a bit of a longer drive to work, and to many of the things that we used to just jump in the car and go to are a bit further we tend to just drive to get there and don't always pay attention to what is around us. Yet when we drive around the new neighborhood, we drive like an old couple, slow with our blinker on (sorry, couldn't resist). But what I am trying to say, is that we notice everything.

Now this devotion reminded me that I need to slow down my life, each day and enjoy the millions of blessings that I / we have. Each second there is something that we take for granted. It might just be there was no traffic today, or our new roses have a new bloom. Or it could be something major like we got to work safe today, or the doctor found the disease before it spread. I am guilty at times before of being thankful for a miracle and not giving God credit, saying it was luck or a coincidence....this is God and his work, there is no such thing as luck.....only God.

May your day be blessed, as you each are a blessing to me.


What's Really Important
This devotional was written by Robin Dugall

For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.—Romans 1:20 (NASB)

There is a freeway that I drive every single day on my way to work. The thirty-mile trip to my place of employment is filled with the same twists and turns on the road to which I have grown apathetically accustomed. If something new or exciting was within view, I don’t know if I would see it. I have the feeling that day by day the same old grind, the routine of my life would never hold a surprise. In fact, even if there were something new or extraordinary, I probably wouldn’t see it because my eyes are fixed on the road and I’m concentrating on getting to my destination as quickly as possible. I’m so focused on my commute that I’ve often thought when I arrive at work, "I wonder what I just missed in the past 45 minutes?" Think about your own life…do you miss a lot? So much of the time, we blow by all sorts of things like relationships, the beauty of creation, signs of the loving and wonderful God we serve because we have more important things to do.
Not too long ago, I heard a pastor give a sermon where he used some unique words to describe the presence of God in our world. He said that our world was "drenched" with God. In other words, there isn’t a place you can go, a molecule of air you can breathe, a sight you can see, where you can sense that God is missing. All it takes, as Jesus said, is "eyes to see and ears to hear" the wonder and magnificence of God. Maybe instead of driving so hard in our lives, we should be opening our eyes and ears to seeing and experiencing the presence of God in new ways. Maybe instead of wondering how we are going to see God at work in our lives, we should simply be on our knees thanking Him for the many ways He has already worked and we were too busy to see.