Have you ever had one of those days when you have so much on your plate to do, but no energy to do it. Call it what you will, maybe it's because I ran this morning on an empty stomach or I haven't been eating enough, but I am beat!
I layed Samantha, my daughter, down for a nap this morning and came in the living room to get things done. I layed my head down on a pillow on the couch, and next thing I knew an hour and a half had flown by and Samantha was screaming in her bed (for who knows how long).
I read the scripture in Jeremiah 31 today that says, "I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with loving-kindness I have drawn you. Again I will build you, and you shall be rebuilt,".
The scripture goes on to say, "You shall again be adorned with your tambourines, And shall go forth in the dances of those who rejoice."
God, why do you love your people so much. Why are you so gracious to us. What is it about us humans, who you have created in your image, but we forget you but you still love and care so deeply about us.
I have known Jesus since I was seventeen years old. I had been kicked out of school and was being home-schooled, when one of my old boyfriends told me that Jesus was real and had changed his life. This was peculiar to me since I had grown up in church and had heard of this sort of thing happening, but it had never happened to anyone my age that I could relate to. Even so, the person who was telling me this had tatoos all over his body, had been raised by a lesbian mother, had been my first sexual experience and had broken my heart many times in the past. Why should I trust him, why would he care to even tell me this, risking total embarrassment. One reason, Jesus is real and he is alive. My life changed that night, January 17, 1995.
I will get up off this couch and go forward in the strength and joy of my God, rejoicing today because God loves me and has drawn me to him with his loving kindness.
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