The chaotic life

My day has been a little chaotic and I will admit, I ALMOST got out of my peace a time or two!  Thank God for His Word this morning to fill me with His grace before the day got to really rolling!  I have the Blue Letter Bible app on my iPhone.  It is the coolest thing EVER (well, not EVER but it is pretty cool).  It has a Bible dictionary, concordance, version comparison and many other cool features.  If I wake up super early, like I did this morning, I try not to mill around too much to wake my man and kids up so I will reach over and grab my phone and go straight to the Blue Letter Bible app before my feet ever hit the floor (but as soon as my feet DO hit the floor, I imagine the devil is thinking "OH CRAP, SHE'S UP-or at least I WANT him to think that)!  Anyway, my LORD gave me this this morning:

Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth...(Matthew 5:5).  Meek means mildness of disposition and gentleness of spirit.  We like people who tend to be nice, kind, peaceful, gentle, polite and sweet don't we?  People will go out of their way to help those who exhibit those traits.  Those people inherit the love and support of others, even if they don't know them personally!  I want to be meek.  I try to be meek.  I think the only way to be meek is to die to the sinful nature that is within us by asking God to fill us with more of Him.  I desperately need Him. 

Okay, now on with my day.  Two basketball games, one at 8:30 am with Hanna and 9:20 with Anna Kate.  We are up and ready in PLENTY of time to go by Jack's for a little breakfast before game time.  Well, that was the case.  My darling man decided this morning to check the rates of Dish Network against Direct TV, which we have right now.  At 7:45 we are ready to walk out the door and I find my man on the phone with Dish.  After about a 20 minute conversation with Customer Service at Dish, I walk out the door and crank the vehicle thinking he will get the hint.  He comes out the door, still on the phone, and opens the gate which allows our "house dog" to escape.  Shall I fume or shall I chase the dog down?  I decided to chase the dog down EXCEPT, the minute I would get close to him, he would run closer towards the highway...needless to say, this ISN'T helping my mood!  I finally catch him about 10 feet from the busy highway and take him back to the house.  Thankfully by the time I make it back, my man has finished the call.  It is 8:00 and we are cutting it close.  We decide to run through the drive through at McDonald's but when we get there, the drive-thru line is backed up to the road.  Do I fume or do I brush it off?  Welllll, I brush it off.  We went on to the basketball games and that darling man of mine goes back to McDonald's to get food.  Long story short, games went great and we got to eat.

Next, I fly, not literally, home and stick a casserole in the oven and change clothes for a luncheon and funeral at our church.  I dash back by the church to drop the food off and then on to Wal Mart to help my man pick out a new pair of glasses (and boy do they look GOOD on him)!  Before he was finished, I dashed back to the church to attend the funeral of a dear woman at our church.  It was a beautiful service for a beautiful woman.  I was moved to tears when her son sang Surely The Presence of The Lord Is In This Place and her daughter-in-love played the piano for his song.  IT WAS AMAZING!  Anyway, I run back home after the service and picked up my youngest for a play date with a friend for a couple of hours.  I dropped her off, headed back home to meet my man and my oldest daughter so we could go practice basketball.  And it is only 4:00...I still have to finish preparing my Sunday school lesson for tomorrow and get something fixed for supper! 

Needless to say, everything is done, finally, and I am about to turn in for the night.  We have another eventful day on tap tomorrow.  Church, Sunday School, Lunch, Birthday party, and youth!!!  Whew, maybe I should eat Wheaties in the morning for breakfast!  Any who, I hope you all have enjoyed your day today because it was a gift from God.  Have you thanked Him for it?  I have!