Fleas & Revelations
How's that for a title? :)
Well, I bought a "Capstar" pill for the dog on Monday. The vet said it would start working in a 1/2 hour, so I picked it up at lunchtime & brought it straight to my pup. By the time I got home after work, he was feeling so much better! I combed him, pet him & came up with nothing! DH called it the "miracle drug". Now hopefully with the Frontline I gave him on Friday, the little buggers will stay off him. And just to be sure (and to protect the rest of us), I sprayed the furniture with home spray. So far, so good. It's so nice to be able to pat the dog without fear & to see his happy wagging tail again!
Now on to the revelations...Last night I started going to my friend's women's bible study. They are studying "One in a Million" by Priscilla Shirer (a video/book study), which is about the Jews traveling from Egypt, through the wilderness, and to the Promised Land. Throughout, it draws parallels about our "Egypt" and our "wilderness" in our lives.
Last night's session was all about going through the wilderness. It talked about being at a cross-roads of deciding to walk with God or not, and what it was like to go through our own "wilderness"/difficulties. A couple of things struck me:
1 - Priscilla talked about "what about all our emotions?" She never said how we "should" feel; she just talked about how we do feel & that God is there through all our emotions. This was quite validating for me, because I think that I'm often told (or implied) how I ought to be feeling, or that I shouldn't pay any attention to feelings at all. Awesome.
2 - Now here's the big one & I don't know if I can make this clear. So often, in our Christian lives, we are told basically, "If you do X, God will do Y." And so you do X, hoping that God will do Y, and when Z (our wilderness) happens, you wonder if you did anything wrong.
Now the purpose of the Israelites going through the wilderness was: to spiritually prepare them for the Promised Land. God was influencing/shaping them to become the people they needed to be once they reached their destination.
So I realized that it's not all about me doing X & God doing Y; it's about God allowing A to allow me to become B (which I assume is someone who is close to his heart).
This shifts the entire paradigm. A lot to swallow, but good stuff.
Well, I bought a "Capstar" pill for the dog on Monday. The vet said it would start working in a 1/2 hour, so I picked it up at lunchtime & brought it straight to my pup. By the time I got home after work, he was feeling so much better! I combed him, pet him & came up with nothing! DH called it the "miracle drug". Now hopefully with the Frontline I gave him on Friday, the little buggers will stay off him. And just to be sure (and to protect the rest of us), I sprayed the furniture with home spray. So far, so good. It's so nice to be able to pat the dog without fear & to see his happy wagging tail again!
Now on to the revelations...Last night I started going to my friend's women's bible study. They are studying "One in a Million" by Priscilla Shirer (a video/book study), which is about the Jews traveling from Egypt, through the wilderness, and to the Promised Land. Throughout, it draws parallels about our "Egypt" and our "wilderness" in our lives.
Last night's session was all about going through the wilderness. It talked about being at a cross-roads of deciding to walk with God or not, and what it was like to go through our own "wilderness"/difficulties. A couple of things struck me:
1 - Priscilla talked about "what about all our emotions?" She never said how we "should" feel; she just talked about how we do feel & that God is there through all our emotions. This was quite validating for me, because I think that I'm often told (or implied) how I ought to be feeling, or that I shouldn't pay any attention to feelings at all. Awesome.
2 - Now here's the big one & I don't know if I can make this clear. So often, in our Christian lives, we are told basically, "If you do X, God will do Y." And so you do X, hoping that God will do Y, and when Z (our wilderness) happens, you wonder if you did anything wrong.
Now the purpose of the Israelites going through the wilderness was: to spiritually prepare them for the Promised Land. God was influencing/shaping them to become the people they needed to be once they reached their destination.
So I realized that it's not all about me doing X & God doing Y; it's about God allowing A to allow me to become B (which I assume is someone who is close to his heart).
This shifts the entire paradigm. A lot to swallow, but good stuff.
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