I figured I could kill two birds with one stone with this post, instead of having to blog twice on different topics. Hopefully I can tie them together *fingers crossed*
The little things have always been extremely important to me. Hugs, winks, smiles, popcorn, sleep, letting someone know you're thinking of them, little notes, yada yada, you get the picture. But this post isn't about the good, little things...instead, it's about the irritating, annoying, push you over the edge, make you crack, get red in the face, hot temper, boiling, little things. If you don't understand what I'm trying to show here, I'll give an example. Your roommate being extremely loud very early in the morning, your roommate playing extremely strange and annoying, out of key music, or your roommate putting "pro-choice" signs on OUR door, or your roommate leaving her books, food, shoes, towels, etc. in the middle of our room, (if you can't tell - these are some things that are bothering me, sorry). Or, how about "larger" little things, such as the skim milk being out in the cafeteria, or all the dorms being on lockdown, or a fire alarm going off at 1:30 in the morning when it is 15 degrees outside. Now, it may sound as if I am complaining, but hold on, I'm not. I'm merely giving you some examples of little struggles I am approached with sometimes daily.
Now, I'm going to interject another point. I love mornings and sunrises. A renewed day, fresh air, the brisk breeze - everything about it. I've become somewhat of a morning person this semester. While I struggle the first few moments after my alarm goes off, once I get past those precious moments of mine, all is better. I've found that as I soon as I rise I prefer quiet - no talking, for just about 5 minutes or so. After that, I'm generally singing or humming. During my "quiet time" I don't like interruptions or loud noises, for I am often I am praying, and love my quiet. Also, this semester in Chapel and my own Scripture readings I have been told to begin my days, early in the mornings, coming to God. Asking Him and thanking Him at the beginning of the day, each and every day. In the song "God of Wonders", I'm sure most of you know it, the second verse goes - "Early in the morning I will celebrate the Light. And as I stumble into darkness, I will call Your name by night." Now, I just love those lines, and I agree with them. By beginning your day right with God it just makes your entire day better. There's a commercial for either Orange Juice or cereal of some sort that's slogan is "Start your day right." It should be the main slogan for God!
So, here goes the connection between the two.
Lately, I have been starting my days off by praying, and so far it has been so great. I love praying when I'm outside, especially walking to early morning classes. I've become quieter and more reserved this semster (shocking isn't it? : 0) I find so much peace and stillness, both in me and around me, when and after I pray. It's wonderful. I used to not want to pray to God asking me for help with the little things. I thought that was being slefish and petty. But now, I realize that those are things I need the most help with, and I must ask for His Help with these things. I must pray for patience and an even temper with things such as situation with my roommate, and the skim milk being all gone, and the locked doors, or a late night fire drill. I can't flip out and complain about all the little things...for if I do, then how will I ever accomplish anything big? I was just wondering what the rest of the lovely blog world thought of this "morning and little things" topic, and how you, wonderful people, handled it all?
I hope that you all had a very lovely Happy Heart Day!
xoxo
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No pebble to small, nor mountain to large, can the God of the Angel Armies handle. Asking for help with the small things in your life brings you closer to God because you want him to be woven into everything you do. This is part of how to live the light-life.
Paige I love that you're so open to learning new things and changing old habits! Letting God into your life personally is such a humongous thing! It's about relationship. I like your observations, lady. I like you too... :)
wait, so you're asking god for skim milk in the morning? I wonder how god feels about that. "alright, let's see, just flooded the nile again so egypt can have lots of crops this yeeearr...what's next? ah yes, world hunge...crap, another friggin skim milk prayer. Sorry world hunger, I'll be with you in a second." Personally, if there is a god, I don't think we should treat it like this cure all being. I think it would be something like pure knowledge or love. It's with us at all times. It doesn't help us or hinder us. It's just there and we can either latch on to it or we can ignore it.
Kyle, now, that's not what I meant. I meant that I get upset at little things, we all do. I'm not asking God to give me skim milk in the morning, I'm asking Him to help me to not overract about the little things such as there being no skim milk for days in a row and such as your comment. I do, however, appreciate you commenting.
Also, God is the ultimate multitasker - for crying out loud, He came up with it : ) And, besides, we must ask and pray for God to help us with things. He doesn't always give us things that we think we want - He gives us what He knows we need. It's up to us with what we do with it.
I was wondering, Kyle, if you considered yourself still a Catholic, or an aetheist or just agnostic? Just curious, you don't have to answer. Thanks
-Laura- I like you too!!
-traveler- Thank you again for commenting...I appreciate it
Yeah, I'm definitely agnostic these days. I read your post again and realized you didn't actually mean you wanted god to give you skim milk. But still, a lot of people do that kind of stuff. "Oh god, help me with this. help me with that." It makes it seem like they don't have to take any responsibility for their own lives. And although you didn't say you want god to do all that stuff for you, I still feel the point I made is still valid with a lot of christians. Do you believe God can cure things?
here's some more questions that's i've always wanted to ask a good christian. Do you believe in free will? If so, how do you take full responsibility for your own life if you believe you have a destiny? I guess that's it.
Destiny, is in essence pre-destination...and if you believe in God, the Christian God we are talking about, then you don't believe in "destiny" and "per-destination"...what you believe in is that God is omniscient and knows everything that happens...just because of that fact, it doesn't mean that God doesn't allow for us to "choose" based upon experience and what we are taught...
God curing things - well, the way I see it is that He could cure everything, but He doesn't because He wants us to first ask and also He helps us to figure out how to cure things. He doesn't hand things to us on a silver platter, by no means. Do you specifically mean curing things such as cancer and AIDS, or little flaws in people and society?
As for free will, I feel it can be a very powerful good thing, as well as sometimes detrimental. Free will allows us to choose whether to drink or smoke, what classes to take, who are friends are, etc., as well choosing God. Of course, He wants us to choose Him, but life is a struggle, and definitely would not be worth the amazing prize (Heaven) if it weren't one. I'm glad that you considered me a "good Christian", but I'm still learning...we all are, and I hope we all are until the day we die. I love to learn. It's also nice to know that many other "good Christians" read, and occasionaly comment on this blog, so maybe they can be of more help to you than I can.
I also strongly agree with Edison's point on destiny. It can be a very difficult thing to understand with words such as "fate" and "predestination" thrown in there. I sort of blame that on movies a bit, but who knows. I believe God has a plan for us, all of us. And though we may stray and make decisions because of free will, I believe that God's plan and goal for us is then altered a bit to help lead us back to where He wants us. Whether we listen and follow His lead is a matter up to us and our free will. He wants all of us to come back to the Kingdom of Heaven to be with Him, and hopefully our lifes will be lead in a Christ-like manner, so that we can someday attain that precious gift.
I would indeed believe in free will. God has a plan mapped out for our lives. It is our free will to choose to follow God and that plan, or choose ourselves and make our own plan. What we choose determines our fate, fate does not determine what we choose.
thank you traveler, your ever ambiguous comments are getting to be really inspirational. Keep giving us those paraphrases and summaries of what has already been said.
Kyle, have you started Mere Christianity yet? It has a good explanation of what most Christians would probably think of as free will in relation to God.
Tar Pit! Jen, you rule...
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