Draining week
The week was only 4 days, but it seems like it was a long week. I was a bit disquiet in my spirit Tuesday morning. I tried to figure out what it was, but I have not. I was happy that in the Wed ev. prayer we prayed a lot for peace. We ended by all praying for Al. That was really beautiful.
I wrote about a
puzzling scripture on my Bible blog, if y'all have any ideas.
Walls
When I see people with walls at my workplace, I try to break them down. It seems something like a challenge to me and I like it, but I try to check my motivation. WHY am I doing this?
For example there was one janitor that worked on our floor. He was quiet and a bit surly, but everytime I saw him I would smile and say hello like I did with the old janitor. Except that this guy NEVER responded. He did not reply, he did not smile. I am not sure my existence was even noticed. After a year of this, he disappeared. I don't know what happened- maybe he was transferred to another building. Maybe he was fired. I don't know. But I went through the exercise with no results. I don't regret it though because I feel like I was sowing kindness in his life while everyone else ignored him. Well, maybe he wanted to be ignored and I wasn't really showing kindness, oh well.
joseph
I wrote a bit about Joseph on my
bible reading blog. Today I was reading about Joseph in R.T. Kendall's
'God meant it for Good' and there was this quote, that I'm not sure I agree with but it was interesting:
"Many people have never fallen into sin because they have not yet met Potiphar's wife! That ought to stop many of us from being critical of others."
I think of Spitzer (sorry Barbara!) who met his Potiphar's wife and had his major downfall. But I don't think that many people have not fallen into sin. Maybe our sins are smaller. Maybe he's talking about large tests in the quote? Is it guaranteed that we will all face a 'potiphar's wife' moment that our future will depend on? How we will we know at that moment. I wonder if Joseph knew at the moment what an important decision he was making.
Thin spaces
As I was walking home from work today I was thinking about the many people who feel they are supposed to be doing one thing in life but are not in the space they feel they need to be in. Why it seems the people we want to hear us aren't listening. Why sometimes we go through things so that we are able to feel God's heart. To see things His way. I'm not sure this post will make any sense. It has taken me 1/2 hour to get to this point and I've only done a few sentences!
