No Cell Phone

Now let me just say this entire post is not going to be about how I forgot my cell phone at home and couldn't live without today...it is actually more than that.

Today was a rest day from training, but that meant everything else was off center. Woke up late, Kei was in a mood, Rico missed the bus, and of course, I left my cell phone at home.

It meant that at moments in my day when I would have normally texted someone or posted a status on Facebook; I had to just meditate and talk to God. Not a bad lesson :0)

Today was the beginning of finalizing a chapter in my life and as much as I would love to say that I was in control...I wasn't. I held it together until I was out sight and just let the flood gates open. I thought I was past it all. You know stronger, more resilient, at peace, ya da ya da ya da...
So in the hour that I had to wait for revisions and re-calculations, it was just me, my Journey devotional, my Bible, and God.

I read Psalms 119 - the entire chapter - and it kept repeating how I will keep His commandments, and know His percepts, and said I will fear Him, but how He will be there for me, and shower His grace upon Me, and He loves me.
I needed that reassurance to know that I was doing the right thing even from the beginning, my heart was in the right place and even when I get weary of doing what is right because my enemy continues to wrong me; He knows.

And as with anything I happened to open the devotional to Tuesday date, in my haze thinking it said Thursday, but there was a word for me...Philippians 4:8...dwell on these things.

When we're overwhelmed with our circumstances, it's hard to focus

on the pure and lovely things in our lives. The Lord wants us to face our

concerns and give them to Him.

Because of Jesus, we no longer have to let our burdens consume us.

And so after reading that I went back to Monday ~A New Year's Revolution. It talked about all the resolutions we make and how sometimes even before the end of the month we give up in exhaustion and frustration. Yet our Heavenly Father is always ready to give us a do-over...starting each day anew.

So, the author's prayer is to my prayer, "I'm going to ask God to make me what He wants me to be. Instead of resolutions, I'm going to ask Him to start a revolution in me." I think I have one up on the author in that department....I prayed this long ago and the Lord has answered my prayer...I fail sometimes and let worries overcome me, but He is right there to remind me that He is the bearer of my burdens.

In all things I am glorifying Him...