2 Samuel 21 - 23; 1 Thessalonians 1

The weeks are kind of running together and yet with so much going on and trying to experience each moment I fight that running. Had a Mother's Day for the books, riding bikes with all but Dara and Juno....picnicing and riding bikes, catching tadpoles and crawdads and listening to the Grands laugh. At one point Millie was on my lap playing a game with my phone and her laughter is now a permanent happy place to go....
I wonder that my Abba wants to hear us that much...our laughter, our pain, our frustrations. That as much as I enjoyed Millie HE enjoys us...that thot makes me hurt so good and drives me deeper and deeper into discovering everything I can about Him....and as painful as it is allowing His Spirit to reveal more and more of me to me......

2 Samuel 21, after giving over Sauls family members to the Gibeonites and vs.14 They buried the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the tomb of Saul's father Kish, at Zela in Benjamin, and did everything the king commanded. After that, God answered prayer in behalf of the land.....I am staggered and awed this morning that You are the same God I am seeking, not because I don't understand ( I don't) because thru Christ I am forgiven of more and allowed to seek You, know You, relish in being loved by You.....awed and staggered and totally not understanding but believing......and in that belief moving deeper and deeper into a life I never knew existed....

And then Thessalonians this morning....4 For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you, 5 because our gospel came to you not simply with words, but also with power, with the Holy Spirit and with deep conviction. You know how we lived among you for your sake. 6 You became imitators of us and of the Lord; in spite of severe suffering, you welcomed the message with the joy given by the Holy Spirit. 7 And so you became a model to all the believers in Macedonia and Achaia. 8 The Lord's message rang out from you not only in Macedonia and Achaia—your faith in God has become known everywhere. Therefore we do not need to say anything about it, 9 for they themselves report what kind of reception you gave us. They tell how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God, 10 and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead—Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath....I generally in this pray for others this morning I am feeling it for me....I so want Your message ringing out from me.....I don't know how and yet I want to Abba....I want to be a believer motivated by Your Love......I want to spread this infection as far as I can.....So Abba a day of listening and loving as You lead.