Truth and Q-tips

Each morning, I read a snippet of the Bible to the kids if they are in the room with me getting ready for school.

This morning's verse was from Ephesians 4:1-5.  Alyssa truthfully said that she did not like it.

Why? Because it's difficult to do what this passage says...

To completely humble....

Patient....

Gentle....

To make every effort for unity....

To love those that are not easy to love (Romans 5:8).

Dang, God, why do you have to tell us to do the impossible?!?!

Yet...

He does thus with us EVERY.  SINGLE. DAY.

Each day is a new chance, a new to try again.  Our circumstances may sick royaly, but He has given us an opportunity to look at it differently.

Case in point.

Two nights ago Christian called me to tell me something disgustingly grosse that Alyssa has been doing to his bedroom door for a while now. In true mom fashion, I sternly yelled at her to stop doing this thing.

So yesterday, I had to tell my manager, Ruth,  about it because I tell her all sorts of stories about the kids and because I knew that she could use a good laugh.

You see, Ruth's husband, Wayne, is in the hospital right now with an awful infection in his lungs. He is slowly getting g better, but the road is going to be long, and Ruth is a saint of a wife and is doing everything she can to take care of him and still work (sometime you need normalcy).

God totally knew that I would tell Ruth what Alyssa was doing...

I yelled sternly at my daughter, with a straight face, and some mom annoyance to....

Not put used q-tips in her brother's door.

There are hundreds of them in there.

Used.

If any witches out there are looking for an abundance of ear wax, they are more than welcome to take the entire door with them free of charge.

Needless to say, Ruth laughed. And it was a great sound to hear.

My hope and prayer for you today is to look at whatever is going on in your life right now and just imagine how God is going to use it for His glory.  I can pretty much guarantee that you won't even get close to what he has in the works, but maybe just thinking about it will help you to make today a little bit greater than yesterday.