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Attention: Please keep in mind this writing was written this past Tuesday. Before I begin my writing I have to give some shoutouts! Thank you to Alex for picking up my makeup that fell on the floor. Thank you to the new
Starbucks worker Jessica for bringing me hot water. Thank you, Michael, for opening my treat. Oh, and get this! So, I was sitting at Starbucks this afternoon when this man Bennet, comes out of nowhere and tells me I dropped something on the floor, did I know? I actually didn't know. So, thanks again! He picked it up and of course, I gave him a card.
Thank you, Kisha, another Starbucks worker, that I actually met before but I haven't seen in a long time. Thank you for getting me hot water. Thank you also for getting one of my cards to give to your friend,
Alexis, so she can have one too! Thank you to this nice man sitting next to me, Joe, for getting me more napkins when I spilled my water!
Thank you to everyone who helped me out with something! Thank you so much for accepting my card! I pray you all will be encouraged by my readings!
Have a fantastic day! Let's dive in!
Let me use for an example mine and Joe's typical Saturday morning. I wake up my normal early time and get ready for the day! Very early mornings are the times I have the most energy. Not saying I'm going to pull out a miracle and walk. No, I wish.
However, I do have the kind of energy where I won't need much or sometimes even ever need assistance. Well, unless I need to do something that had walking involved in it. Maybe if you're lucky, in future reading I sure am not a bit more in detail the actual work I do I have to end up putting in to get myself safely in the couch. Who knows? I'm thinking it would be very encouraging to guys!
When I finally get situated on the couch and probably beginning my reading or something do I get hungry for breakfast? I mean remember it's Saturday morning. I've been up some time now. Think as if the time is probably like four or five something now. Joe was still sleeping. And, I did not want to wake him up if I didn't have a bathroom emergency or anything.
So, I needed to find something more to keep myself busy. I knew that Joe usually wakes up around 7 on Saturdays. A little time after he woke up he would already start to get hungry. So, it would make sense that he would want to prepare food and eat in a shorter time span than my 4 hours of not eating yet.
Pause break, it's actually Friday now and I'm editing this before I publish it. And, a deep thought just came to mind. I would say probably in my early mid-thirties, about 5 years or so after marriage, I remember this.
Ever since I could remember I loved to cook. Before my MS started progressing I would really spend a lot of time in the kitchen. I would have daily menus of what I would be making for breakfast lunch and dinner each day. I was even beginning to write my own recipe book. Before the craze of taking food pictures became the "it" thing, I would occasionally take pictures of the food I made, man, that he was cuz I wanted to show other people who had Multiple Sclerosis, they could do it too!
Unfortunately, I'm not really able to do that anymore. Well, amongst many other things as well. I wonder why? Anyway, it was just the deep thought.
Pause break again!
This is going back to my writing. I do remember one time this happened. Now, this doesn't happen all the time. I was even surprised it happened. I guess it was a good thing it happened on a weekend.
What happened was this. It was early Saturday morning. I was on the couch and right next to me on my table was a plastic Ziploc bag of donuts. I was thinking I really wanted some coffee with those donuts! So, what did I do?
Well, first my mind was thinking of a way I can maybe make coffee by myself in the morning, if ever I wanted you to do it again, come the future.
I was thinking that we should have a microwave on the table by me and put a cup of water already for me to heat up. And, then...
Then, the Holy Spirit woke me up. And, I felt like calling out for Joe and asking him to make me coffee in the K Cup. At first, oh I didn't want to do it. Because, well duh...
First, it was the weekend and I was sure he was going to get mad at me if I were to wake him up! Second, well maybe that was really the only reason. LOL.
Eventually, what I did was this. I put all of my eggs in one basket, so to speak. I had listened to what the Holy Spirit was telling my hear. And, I ended up calling out for Joe and asked if he can please make me coffee.( You know, I did think that maybe if I added the please, that would have helped the situation.) lol
He woke up went straight to the kitchen and made me coffee. I was half surprised that Joe was not mad at all. I mean
I'm sure he wasn't overly happy either. But, the main point was that he wasn't mad! Okay then, well wow I guess seeing the word please didn't help more than I thought LOL!
Seriously, Joe surprises me some mornings with how he acts. Surprising ways like what I mentioned. I am really encouraged and thankful that God allowed what he allowed. Thankful that Joe made me " early " k cup coffee.
My hunger times are pretty sporadic and all over the place. Ask Joe. I will say this. Usually, when it comes to my first meal of the day, I don't really enjoy it. Why is that you ask? The truth is I'm really only eating so I can get my medicine down with it. Seriously, I don't even drink with my medicine. I eat with them. When I swallow my food, it's usually covering up my medicine and taking it down with it as it travels to my stomach. Hehe.
Usually 5 minutes to 1 hour or so later, oh I would like to treat myself to a nice pastry! That would be the time I can actually taste my food and enjoy it!
Told you, Sam's hunger times? Sporadic!
....In The Sermon on the Mount, Jesus spoke of another type of hunger, a spiritual hunger. He said, " Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be filled." Matthew 5:6.
I once heard from the words of Pastor Greg Laurie this. “ If you say, I don’t really feel like I need to read the Bible that much. And I don’t really desire to be in Church that much, either. If that is the case, then I’m sorry for them, because they’re missing out. “Blessed [happy] are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,” Jesus said, “for they shall be filled.”
Ephesians 3:19
And to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 5:18
And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit,
Acts 2:4
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance
Matthew 25:35
For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
Dear God. Thank you because once we choose to accept you as Lord and savior, we begin to be filling up with your glory and your goodness! Over and over in your word it says and if we drink from your water we will never thirst again. Thank you for being a God that quenches our hunger.
TBC.......
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