Been Thinking!

Yes, I do think once in a while!

Ted, (my husband) used to say: "We make a perfect couple, I am the thinker and you are the talker. Problem is, you talk faster then I can think."

I thought of the perfect solution, I began to think for my self! Ha, ha, ha.

But read the following which I picked up.

A runner at a school track meet crossed the finish line just ahead of his nearest rival. A bystander, noticing that the winner's lips were moving during the last couple of laps, wondered what he was saying. So he asked him about it. "I was praying," the runner answered. Pointing to his feet, he said, "I was saying, 'You pick 'em up, Lord, and I'll put 'em down.'"

That athlete prayed for God's help, but he also did what he could to answer his own prayer.
When we ask God for help, we must be willing to do whatever we can, using whatever means He gives.

Years ago, I heard a sweet young girl saying: "I became a Christian and that makes me happy. But..... she continued, I am afraid to give my life completely over to Him, because I am afraid He is going to send me away to a far away country as a missionary."

Most people think that God is somewhere up there giving orders to His angels, "Hey, you there, go to Trudy and make her quit her job and tell her to become a cleaning lady. Hit her over the head if you have to, now, run along and don't waste any time!"

I'd be an very unhappy person, first of all, I LOVE what I am doing, (now as I get older, I do enjoy working less). I have nothing against cleaning ladies, but that's NOT my thing. I do what I have to do to keep my home presentable, but to start cleaning some where else, forget that!!!!

This is just a silly example. But how does God get through to us?

When I was barely 20 years old, would I have come to Canada on my own? What for?
But.....then I met Theo, (who'd come to Holland for a vacation to see his family). We fell in love, no 10 horses would have kept me from coming. My heart was sooooooo ready, I dreamed about him and Canada, every minute of the day. We met just after Christmas 1959, he went back to Canada 10 days later. We got engaged by mail Feb 5, 1960. I came over April 20, and we got married May 20 1960.

Yes people, this Friday the 20th, we have been married for 45 years.

Going back to how God "makes" us do things. Circumstances, opportunities, our own desires, all play a roll. If God has created us in His image. Genesis 1:26, then we are able to think and act like Him, we have great possibilities. We can actually do and are allowed to do what ever we want. It is so simple.

Now there have been times when God might speak very plain to us, to our hearts and minds that is, there is absolutely no getting away from that. I mean He spoke to Paul on the road to Damascus, Acts 9:4. He might speak to us in dreams, (which has happened to me several times), but to wait for it, does not always work.

Simply, lift up your feet and ask God to put them down and go for it.

Love Trudy