Maybe it is because I have spent the week cleaning up after sick people. Any fluid that a sick person produces is gross. I'm sorry but it is true. And we've had just about every possible scenario of gross. It conjures up an 80's saying within me, "Gag me with a spoon."
At one point yesterday I wished I had an apron like Susanna Wesley did. I've heard it told that in the midst of household madness she would sit in her kitchen, throw her apron over her head, and meet with God.
I imagine that her kitchen was a little more worthy of having an apron handy. Mine has been strewn with take out containers this week.
But back to the apron over her head thing- I think I need me an apron meeting.
Moses needed him an apron meeting a few times as well. Only he called them tent meetings. He would take a tent and pitch it a good distance from camp. Anyone who wanted to seriously seek the Lord, would leave the familiarity of camp and go out to the tent meeting.
God would meet him there. Exodus 33:11 says, "The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend."
In verse 12 we find Moses telling the Lord that he is trying to lead these people but he needs a little help.
Oh yes ma'am, now there is a Scripture that every woman can identify with! "I love these people you have entrusted to me but there are days where they quite simply drive me crazy. Help me Lord! Help me Lord!"
Then the Lord replies in verse 14, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."
His Presence and our rest are the gifts one gets when seeking the Lord.
The Dictionary defines 'presence' as: the fact of being present. I love this because no matter how I feel, it is a fact that God is with me.
And 'rest' is defined as: relief from anything that worries, troubles or disturbs.
Bad attitudes, throw up, caughing/ hacking sounds, more laundry than what one human should ever have to face, guilt over my lack of homemade nutrition, and feeling slightly annoyed that one can be too sick to do their chores but not too sick to have spats with their siblings--- well, I'd like some relief from all that.
So, I think I'll slip one of those take out paper sacks over my head, close my eyes, and have me a little meeting with the Lord.
And in the stillness of my soul, He whispers into me life, strength, perspective, courage...
"For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to stregthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him." (2 Chronicles 16:9)
At one point yesterday I wished I had an apron like Susanna Wesley did. I've heard it told that in the midst of household madness she would sit in her kitchen, throw her apron over her head, and meet with God.
I imagine that her kitchen was a little more worthy of having an apron handy. Mine has been strewn with take out containers this week.
But back to the apron over her head thing- I think I need me an apron meeting.
Moses needed him an apron meeting a few times as well. Only he called them tent meetings. He would take a tent and pitch it a good distance from camp. Anyone who wanted to seriously seek the Lord, would leave the familiarity of camp and go out to the tent meeting.
God would meet him there. Exodus 33:11 says, "The Lord would speak to Moses face to face, as a man speaks with his friend."
In verse 12 we find Moses telling the Lord that he is trying to lead these people but he needs a little help.
Oh yes ma'am, now there is a Scripture that every woman can identify with! "I love these people you have entrusted to me but there are days where they quite simply drive me crazy. Help me Lord! Help me Lord!"
Then the Lord replies in verse 14, "My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest."
His Presence and our rest are the gifts one gets when seeking the Lord.
The Dictionary defines 'presence' as: the fact of being present. I love this because no matter how I feel, it is a fact that God is with me.
And 'rest' is defined as: relief from anything that worries, troubles or disturbs.
Bad attitudes, throw up, caughing/ hacking sounds, more laundry than what one human should ever have to face, guilt over my lack of homemade nutrition, and feeling slightly annoyed that one can be too sick to do their chores but not too sick to have spats with their siblings--- well, I'd like some relief from all that.
So, I think I'll slip one of those take out paper sacks over my head, close my eyes, and have me a little meeting with the Lord.
And in the stillness of my soul, He whispers into me life, strength, perspective, courage...
"For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to stregthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him." (2 Chronicles 16:9)
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