Plodding Along

We all have regrets, even those of us brought into our childrens' lives after the suffering of divorce. I so agree with Jason and Wendy's words but couldn't have expressed it so clearly. I have to say, I'll never forget when Jason made the statement "always reforming" to me. I didn't get it and in fact was worried. I thought "Wait a minute, God is the same yesterday, today and forever. Don't tell me this reformed theology changes with cultures/generations!" Little did I realize...how much I still have to learn...but I am thankful I can always reform.

One of the ways my thinking has been challenged this last year is by asking this question, "How do we teach our bodies gratitude? My first thought I knew was wrong but it was "By denying it things." What I thought of was one important principle I was taught as a child that I have tried to pass on to my family. "Do the hard stuff and leave the easy for last." How I interpreted that saying was "Do the stuff you don't like first, then do the stuff you want." The problem with this statement is when you are given more responsibility and freedom, you don't always have to do the stuff you don't want to do first. You may never do it, i.e. exercise. How should we answer that question? How do we teach our bodies gratitude? By denying it things that will hurt it. In other words, doing what is good for the body or DISCIPLINE. I am glad my mind is reforming.

Now what does this have to do with this book? This is going to S-T-R-E-T-C-H our minds, which is about the last thing I want to do. But I want my thinking to continue to reform and my understanding to be richer so living a life of gratitude will be more evident in all I say and do. Then maybe the Lord will use my life to help break this chain of divorce, in the family in which I married, with the children I am helping raise.

Ginger