I often hear people say......"I can't wait until life gets back to normal". People often long to go back to....before the health diagnosis, before the affair, before the loss of the job, before the death of a loved one, before the marriage, before the job transfer, before the rape, before the accident, before the children, before the children left the home, and whatever your personal "before_____ is"
The Webster's definition of the word normal is....not unusual, expected, standard.
I am a planner by nature, so I prefer routines that are normal.
My 12 year old son, Alex, also loves routine. He has his morning routine down to a tee. He has to feed the animals so he has his chore routine, his breakfast routine,and shower routine. Every day he crosses off the day on his calendar with a black magic marker, he goes to bed without being told, sets his own alarm and is extremely responsible. Today we are doing something brand new and different for Alex.
Last week, he got his eyes checked and his eyesight was no longer "normal". So has spent the past week learning how to wear contacts and today we are going to pick up his first pair of glasses. He couldn't believe how he was able to see, a leaf , on a tree because before the contacts he was only seeing the leaves all blurred together. I wonder how long he has needed these glasses.
In 10 days HGTV is giving away an Apt. in NYC. Their ads keep saying....Millions entered but only 1 wins.
I would love if my normal life would get interrupted by HGTV ringing my doorbell to tell me that I won. I have never been to NYC but Wayne's nephew Eric is living and going to school there.
This was Eric's face book post from 2 days ago....."I was riding the A train @ 6am this morning to school and a homeless guy fell on me and apparently died. They stopped the train and everyone had to get off while the conductor waited with the guy for an ambulance.The surprising thing is that no one seemed like it was unusual.Welcome to NYC"
Can you believe that?? It is a true story. Unbelievable but true.
Just a normal day....wow!!
David, from the Bible had a lot of unusual things happen to him. My favorite story about David is found in 1 Samuel 29 & 30. David was a warrior and had gone to help fight a battle that he was actually asked to leave. David and his men had to travel home for 3 days and when they returned to their town, Ziklag, they discovered that it had been burned to the ground and all their wives and children had been taken captive. David and the men cried until they were exhausted and then they wanted to kill David.
David was having a bad week. But he found strength and direction from God. The men went after the enemy and found them drinking and partying. The part that I love is that after they fought the enemy from dusk to the next evening they recovered everything & everyone that had been taken. They even had a bunch of plunder from the enemy that they took back to bless other people with.
That is what God is still doing today. He is a God that will actively help us understand what the good things are about the hurtful, negative things that have happened to us in our lives and he can actually turn it around and bring back so much good out of what the enemy tried to destroy....that we can bless others with it.
I have a friend that gave me permission to share a bit of her story. She was born into a family that has generations of alcohol addiction. Her dad admitted to giving her alcohol in her baby bottle,when she was a baby, to get her to shut up and pass out. In only 3 days, my friend will be alcohol free and sober for 1 whole year. She doesn't ever want to go back to the "old normal" and how things used to be. She is choosing to break free of a generational curse that she says she couldn't have done without Gods help.
You go girl !!! :) God will use her to help other people get free of addictions.
So maybe today, instead of wishing to be back before__________, ask God to heal that wound & then bring back the plunder to bless other people with.
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