Genesis 3

I'm freezing! I came home from work today and the house was a little stuffy. So, I turned on the air conditioner just to get some circulation going. Well, I left the house without turning off the air. I returned to a really cold house. So, now I'm bundled under layers of cover longing for the stuffy conditions of this afternoon.

Earlier, I had a lunch date with my "Aunt" Jackie (my mentor); and we had a really good talk about life and the intricacies of female relationships. To write about that would take up all the space on my hard drive. I'll say it was a productive talk and I came away feeling like I had grown closer to the woman that I want to be.

Tonight we had prayer at church. I thoroughly enjoyed it, because after talking to God I feel like I'm going to be okay. Like I'm doing okay in this Christian walk. Too often, we can feel like we don't measure up. Or when we mess up that God is going to banish us to hell rather than forgiving us.  It's strange how we believe some of what the bible says and not all of it. The entire word of God is TRUE. Believe it!

Usually when I pray, I worship first. Then I ask for forgiveness. Then I pray for myself and others (sometimes asking for intangibles: peace, joy; and sometimes for the tangibles: a husband...LOL). Finally, I just listen. Tonight when I listened, I heard God say "why are you hiding?" "where are you?" I sat and I listened to him say he wanted more time with me. Unfortunately, because I'm always on the go, so are my prayers. It's easy to get caught up in getting things done, that we forget to take time out of our day to have a conversation with him. As he did with Adam in Genesis 3, God is looking for me and asking me what is keeping us apart. That's the thing about stillness, you can hear God so clearly. Be still. Maybe he's asking you the same thing. Pow3rful in Him, Chris