It’s a dreary, rainy last day of the first month of the year.
While it’s icky outside, I have been working on cultivating gratitude so I am deciding to be grateful…
- That the icky weather waited until the weekend was done.
- That this is typical Texas winter weather and we don’t get much worse (usually).
- We don’t have to fill up the pool for a while.
I’m dusting off my new job and enjoying a lot of newfound time to myself during the workday. I’ve been using the time to read books, meditate, work on some of my own flaws, etc. And I’m so glad because while life is usually good, sometimes it’s hard.
This last go-round of hard, I noticed something had changed in me. My heart did not feel… anger at the blow. Instead, when faced with adversity, my heart grew in love. Love for what was causing the pain and genuine love and sorrow that this thing was happening and should be over but here it was again.
I am so grateful to know in my heart that ultimate Love is Ultimate Strength, Ultimate Power. To the world, love can be viewed as weakness. I had every “right” to be angry. But I wasn’t. And I’m working through it, but damn it feels good to finally feel this verse I’ve heard time and time again.
Love … is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things.
Corinthians 13: 5-7
I’m not ending with a prayer today, I’m ending with an image that I believe the Holy Spirit left for me to find on social media 😹
