Our Musicalhouse: I almost missed it.

Sunday, January 30, 2011

I almost missed it.

This morning I was actually running early for church! I pulled into the parking lot a full 35 minutes before I needed to be there & saw that Jack was asleep in his carseat. I wanted to give him a few more minutes of sleep, so I decided to take advantage of the moment & finish off the Starbucks giftcard John gave me for Christmas. I went through the drive thru & when I got my drink, I saw this:

At first I thought, "That's weird. Usually they try to at least make it look pretty", but a second later as I turned it around, I saw what I was meant to see: a smile. It's a small thing, but it made my morning. Plus it makes a great point for what God's been teaching me lately.

At the first of the year I decided to be more intentional about looking for/recognizing God's work in my life. Specifically the gifts He gives daily (from the simplest, to the most extravagant). His gifts are so easy to miss sometimes & I think by missing them I am really missing out on so many blessings He is pouring out on me each day. God has used this to change my focus & my attitude, & that is yet another thing I am thankful for!

On a related note, church was awesome this morning. First, I learned about an amazing ministry I didn't even know we had: The Methodist Mission Home. Then we were blessed with an awesome sermon on 1 Corinthians 13. You'll have to check it out on the church website once John gets it posted!

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Verses from Philippians

1:21: For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
2:1-11: If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
2:14-15: Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe.
3:7-8: But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ.
3:12-14:Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already been made perfect, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.