sunday afternoon
17.6.14
some days don't go as planned, they get turned around and shaken up just because that's the way life is. and you have two options, you can:
1// mourn the could have beens and live life in what could have happened
or
2// you can buck up, and look for the joy in the things that come through the interruptions, and look for the things that God can teach you through them
you can laugh and smile at the abounding joy on kids' faces at playing duck-duck-goose for the first time, even with the sun beating down on your back in the mid-day heat
running around on a dusty field with kids yelling in different languages, playing ultimate frisbee with a wiffle ball, becomes your sunday afternoon instead of trying to rest up for the week ahead
the two girls that follow you around, always two steps behind, try to hold back a grin, but it quickly bursts forth when you turn and meet their shining eyes
…and while you are "sacrificing" your day someone is 20 feet in the air in a palm tree, cutting down
frons. and all around you men and boys are plowing the hard, dry earth with a plow that makes something from little house on the prairie look high tech and a team of stubborn oxen.
top that off with a baobab that could house the coolest treehouse in all history...
and a little girl in a little yellow dress and the sound of 40 children dancing and singing pouring out from a mud-brick church, and i would say that, even though unplanned and not quite what you had in mind for the day, it was a pretty great way to spend a sunday afternoon. as for me, i've learned to stop looking at the interruptions as interruptions and start looking for what the Lord wants to teach me through them, it's amazing to see how the Lord can change our hearts about anything, if we are willing to let him…
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Smiles. Awesome,day!
ReplyDeleteI just saw this quote today: "My whole life I have been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted," Henri Nouwen said near the end of his life, "until I discovered the interruptions were my work."
ReplyDeleteSounds like the two of you are thinking alike! How cool is that?
Choosing joy!!!
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