This is Good!

This post goes for yesterday, Wednesday November 18th.

Even though I may be a youth leader on Wednesday nights at the church we attend, I myself can still learn from the lessons we teach the kids. And that I did.

I'll be honest in this, I really didn't want to be at youth last night. I had just gone home for about 45 min before I had to be back for youth and I just didn't want to drive back. Ben had gotten home and I just felt like having dinner with him and going to sleep. Really exciting, right? I felt blah yesterday, the whole day actually, and I know it was because of a few frustrations Ben and I have been facing in the last 4 months probably. So my blah day, just wanted to stay blah at home with Ben, who was also feeling blah.

But I trucked off to Youth...little did I know God would speak to me about the very blah feeling I was having.

This is Good!

Our lesson for the evening was "Knowing Jesus is like Thanksgiving". Lisa talked about the things we take for granted (like toilet paper, or your eye lashes), History of teenaged Pilgrims provides perspective, Positive attitude, and God promises to work things out for our good.

This is Good!

At the end of the lesson, Lisa gave a time when the kids could write down on a sheet of paper a situation or something in their life that seems hopeless or impossible or a struggle. Then the kids took them forward and placed them in a jar, to represent they were giving them completely over to God to carry the burden with us.

This is Good!

Wow, how many times in my life do I just think I can do it on my own!? Um...a million every day! This was an incredible reminder to me that I need to be constantly giving all my situations over to God and having Him help me through it instead of me trying to figure out how this is going to work out!

Give these things to God and TO BE THANKFUL for these cirucumstances at the same time! Can I really do that? Wow, that takes some serious trust in God to know that I can be thankful even when this could be rough. But like Lisa said, be thankful in the little things, and also in the big things. Ben and I struggle with finances because of some car issues we had this summer, but I can now be thankful we do have money and we do have cars to get us places. And even though Ben may not have a job that gets paid well or is what he wants to do and it's not permanent just yet, at least he does have a job at this time in life and I'm VERY greatful to God for that! And in His time, God will provide us with just those things we need...but in the meantime, God is growing us and stretching us...and I am thankful for that!

This is Good!