Gigi's Blog

I didn't like school.  It just didn't interest me, and it didn't come easily to me, so I guess I didn't care.  I didn't fail, and it's not as if I did terrible in school. I just didn't focus on it like I should have.  Even though it's only been twenty years, school didn't go outside of the academic box as much then.  I mean you had your "art" people who all wore black, but that was really about it. I did take chorus, which I loved, but there just wasn't alot offered outside of that.  So my undiagnosed A.D.D. personality said "forget it.", and I did.  I struggle with academics, and it makes me "ill" when people who don't know me think I'm lazy or irresponsible for some of the ways are just, well me.  But, the thing about life is that it won't work for me to always say "It's just how Iam."  Sometimes I have to attempt to step-up.  I might fail, but at least I'll fail trying.  I think that's what God is looking for, a willing heart. But I want to learn, and be the best "Gina" that I can be, whatever that means.  I'm not so sure at this point.  But I'm trying to be teachable.

I thinkGod is trying to teach me something at this moment in my life.  I've shared with some of you that Mark and I are by no means done with our Christmas shopping.  It's stressful.  So much to do, and it literally looks impossilbe, and without God's help, it will be.  As I think about wanting to buy gifts to give, and some things may not happen, this has become for me a teachable moment, that I'm choosing to embrace today.  You know that feeling when you want to give your kids, or spouse, or parents or friends something and realize that you may not be able to?  Or how about you go to a party, but aren't able to bring a gift?  Or, you want to offer help, but you just can't?  That feeling.  That feeling of wanting to have a gift to give.  This is how it will be for many on the day of Christ.  They will want nothing more than to have a beautiful crown given to them, so that they can give it to Him, but they will (as the Bible says) just have made it in with nothing to show. 

Are you living your life in preparation for that moment.  I don't think I'm doing such a great job at it.  I'm thinking about now.  I'm thinking about: I want......., and gimmee,gimmee,gimmee. Not thinking of the gift that I can and should always give, which is just like the example of Christ, myself. I mean why worry about death or the return of Christ, it's not today, right????????????   

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Do you remember "Shorty"?  He came to our church a good bit when my Aunt Pat and I would pick up a group at the Salvation Army and bring them.  If you read the story, he died yesterday.  Wonder if he thought yesterday would be the last day of his life?  Two years ago at our church's Thanksgiving dinner, we brought a very small group from the Shelter to the meal.  They got up and talked as Roger asked what we were Thankful for.  "Shorty" is the third person from that group of I'd say no more than 10-12 people who have died. These were very young people, relatively speaking.  I'd say 30s-40s.  So I hope as Shorty stood before God that he had a gift to give. 

Revelation 4 9-11Every time the Animals gave glory and honor and thanks to the One Seated on the Throne—the age-after-age Living One—the Twenty-four Elders would fall prostrate before the One Seated on the Throne. They worshiped the age-after-age Living One. They threw their crowns at the foot of the Throne, chanting,

   Worthy, O Master! Yes, our God!
   Take the glory! the honor! the power!
   You created it all;
   It was created because you wanted it.

I Corinthians 15:51-57

 51-57But let me tell you something wonderful, a mystery I'll probably never fully understand. We're not all going to die—but we are all going to be changed. You hear a blast to end all blasts from a trumpet, and in the time that you look up and blink your eyes—it's over. On signal from that trumpet from heaven, the dead will be up and out of their graves, beyond the reach of death, never to die again. At the same moment and in the same way, we'll all be changed. In the resurrection scheme of things, this has to happen: everything perishable taken off the shelves and replaced by the imperishable, this mortal replaced by the immortal. Then the saying will come true:

   Death swallowed by triumphant Life!
   Who got the last word, oh, Death?
   Oh, Death, who's afraid of you now?
It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power. But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three—sin, guilt, death—are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God

I don't know what you might be going through today, but God does, and He cares. Romans 8:28 says there is a reason behind it.  Don't be unteachable. Don't make the things that you are going through in your life a vain blur.  Embrace it.  Learn from it.  Grow.    

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