Attitude of Gratitude - Part 1

Why is it always such a long time in between posts? It's getting ridiculous. You would think I have nothing going on, and haven't been creative at all, when truth is I have been so busy I have been forgetting to take pictures and blog about it. So here we go. I think it's a great time to start something we will call "An Attitude of Gratitude". 

Do you ever have those Sunday mornings where you feel like you are so compelled to get up and go to church? And not just go, but rip your husband out of bed from his peaceful slumber to make the early service? I had a calling on Sunday morning. I couldn't sleep past 6:30, clearly a sign of getting older, and just felt like I was being called to go to church. Now, I wasn't planning on ripping poor Jay out of bed at 7:45 am on a Sunday morning, but apparently I am lacking on my quiet getting ready skills. He reluctantly got out of bed to join me, as long as we could stop by Starbucks on the way there. Who am I to deny a man his grande white mocha with an extra shot?

Since we just moved to Roswell we haven't really found a church that feels like home yet. Or so I had thought. We had gone over to North Point Community Church just once before. Now, when I say this is a huge church, I really had no idea how big until the end of service. They are trying to add one more service to the four they already have in place. In order to do that, they need an additional 1500 volunteers on Sundays. And no I didn't accidentally type an extra zero. This will allow an additional 4000 people to attend a church that currently has about 22000 regular attenders. The numbers are truly staggering. Now I am sitting there listening to the sermon about volunteering. We are studying how God provided bread and fish to the masses during his healing. The basic message was, God doesn't care about your abilities, He cares about your availability. He wants your time and focus so He can help you become the person you were meant to be. It really got me thinking. 

I think I try to go into most new situations with a sense of "this is what I have to offer". I think when you're in business and you're interviewing for a new company that's your biggest selling point. What can I do for you? I think this is the opposite of what we need to do for God. God knows what we are capable of, He just wants your time.I feel like I am constantly pleading with Him, asking Him to make something happen because I have put all the work in and feel like I deserve it. I think Sunday's service was a humbling experience. How I plan on going about work, life, marriage, volunteering has completely changed. I think I need to go and see what it is that my marriage, my job, and my life needs, and ask God to mold me into making that happen. This has got to make my life more significant than only doing the things in which I believe I am capable of. A great man once told me that being significant is what you should strive for in life. Being significant in someone's or a group of people's life is much more rewarding than anything else. 

So, today, I am grateful for the fact that I couldn't sleep in on Sunday morning. I am grateful for a life lesson I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. I am also going to be grateful if I can start working with the kids services at North Point and find a connection among a very large group of people.

What are you grateful for today?