🙌It's the Friday Call to Worship!🙌

Last week, I marched into my kitchen and announced, "I will not utter a SINGLE grumble or complaint for an entire month. I won't think one. I won't say one. There's no venting. There's only gratitude." My husband hadn't had his first sip of coffee yet. His eyebrows rose to his hairline as he wondered what had his wife riled up so early in the morning.

It didn't feel early in the morning for me. I'd been up for a long time with a sick child. Beyond that, seismic concern for my son with special needs was rising. Life felt too shaky. I was losing my footing. But life isn't meant to be measured by a Richter scale. My Heavenly Father didn't say He would take me from "crisis to crisis" or "shake to quake". He said "strength to strength", "glory to glory". (Psalm 84:7; 2 Corinthians 3:18)

My kitchen proclamation was my way of claiming some ground back. It was time to take my emotion out of the driver seat and put God back in it. That same day, I did a LOT of laundry. I washed a child's vomit out of my hair more than once. But I had pre-decided to cancel my complaints. I can't say I scrubbed linens with joyful songs on my lips, but I found out how much I could do with a quiet head and heart. When I finally fell into bed that night, I was surprised by the joy inside my weary body. Not joy because of my circumstances, but joy because God is above them. I met Him there that day. I've held fast to Him and His joy each day since.

Let's see how many times we can say, "I'm thankful," as we enter into a sacred season.

Listen to "You Bless Me" by "We the Kingdom".