Up and at ‘em again early this morning, I drive to work in the dark. It is Friday and I am looking forward to finishing a few of this week’s projects. Friday’s are difficult for me, such as Monday’s for others. I have a real let down as I walk away from my desk, still piled high with unfinished tasks. I know that I will come back on Monday with it greeting me.
As I drive, trying to not focus on it being Friday, I change my thoughts. I thought to myself, “OK Rich, it is time when you get to that pile on your desk, the God’s Little Devotional Book needs to be uncovered and opened up. It surely will set my Friday in the right direction”.
As I complete my commute, my mind is focused now on finances. Still recovering from events of last September and other inherent woes in the state, salary increases are practically nil. My net paycheck will increase this next year by a whopping $7.03 per month. I received a notice that the taxes went up and my home in the amount of $8.18 per month. Now, go figure!
Like usual, the pile is high on my desk and I start up my computer as I pour my second cup of coffee. I focus on the task that I had been working on as I left last night. Just a few minutes will finish it up. One thing at a time is my direction for the day! With one task completed, the next one follows……. I am beginning to feel good about my progress today.
Oh, what happened to the thought of dusting of my daily devotional assistant. I put it off again.
What’s this, a blinking envelope on my computer monitor…….. a new incoming message. It is from my newly found resource, Kevin Corbin with his daily Gleanings from the Word. I so look forward to that message each day. It is about 80% in tune with the problems I am dealing with at the time….. uncanny.
Kevin’s sharing today is about being so easy in life to think of the negative things that challenge us, forgetting about the positive….. and about the little triggers that help remind us of the need to give thanks for what we receive.
I do have a job, a good one. I have not missed a meal for lack of money…. ever. God gives us a full plate but more than that, just like in a box of cracker jacks, he hides the treasure on the bottom. We clean off the plate of the challenges he gives to us and we find our treasure, that simple. My desktop is full because I have been trusted to perform various tasks responsibly and accurately. My treasure, salvation.
Kevin refers to this passage for today:
“Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.”
Habakkuk 3:17-18 NIV
Right on! Today is another Friday, it is 30 degrees cooler that it has been recently, the wonderful light rain received during the night does not break the drought, but offers promise that it will.
It’s going to be another great day for me! Thank you Dear God!
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