shirley’s alberta adventures

for the busy-bodies

is anyone else busy? i bet.

things have definately been picking up here in the land of the west! i’m theorizing that the masters program was created in such a way that you can never be on top of things. how cruel. haha. i don’t think i’ve ever been SO swamped with things to do - one after the other…and having no way to really be on top of it no matter how great your time management skills are. but that’s okay!

God has been so faithful and so close. Reading some old testament, it’s been so refreshing to see how God is so constant. The pastor had some really good things to say last week (like every week). He referenced the Lord’s prayer, the part about “give us this day our daily bread…”. He noted that Jesus taught us to ask just for each day. Like in exodus, when the Israelites were in the desert, God told them to only pick up enough food for each day. it RAINED bread, but God just said…take for yourself what you only need for that day, because He wanted them to trust Him that He’ll provide for the next day as well.

Everyday this week has been packed with one thing to do after the other. if it’s not one thing, it’s another. there just seems like there’s an endless list of things to do. And I’ve realized that no matter how hard i try to juggle my schedule, and plan, i have no control over it. there’s just no way. but God has really showed me this week that He gives each day the things that we need. Even the simplest things of having a huge pot of soup that lasted the whole week so i didn’t have to cook. God will give us our daily needs. we just need to trust Him for it. crazy cool, huh?

Another thing I’ve learned is that our God is an extreme God. Reading the OT, I’m just blown away from all these “crazy” stories. God goes to extreme measures in all that He does. why? i believe that He simply wants to show that He is God. Look at the Israelites…they saw ALL the crazy things God did for them to get them out of Egypt, but they seem to forget it all when they were in the desert. it wasn’t even because it was generations and generations past! they were the same people who witnessed what God did in Egypt, but they STILL didn’t give God any credit! so think about how much worse it would be if God wasn’t extreme!

even for me…i can say that God has shown me some amazing things..He’s touched so many people and done so many things in my eyes. but there are so many times i still get distracted with doing everyday things, that i seem to “forget” God in my day-to-day doings. God wants to show us what He’s capable of because He knows we are pretty forgettable and “stiff-necked” people. haha…i think i just realized why they’re called stiff necked. when you have a stiff neck, you have a limited range of motion to see past a certain point. sort of like short sighted. HAHA. i am smart.

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