Unconditional Love!

So, it’s 8pm on one of the longest days I’ve had in a long time. I’m starving, no time for lunch today and I finally pull in to my drive. 

All I can think about is my rumbling tummy and what a blessing it will be to fill it with some sort of frozen – microwaveable meal I have stored away in the freezer.

After a quick search I found the perfect meal on this beautiful but crisp cool autumn day.  The Marie Calendar’s Chicken Pot Pie!  In six minutes life will be complete.

It seemed like an hour watching it turn endlessly on the microwave carousel.  Finally after it’s cooling period it was ready to be devoured. 

It was ready!  I shook a little salt and began my journey in to what at the time seemed like a culinary delicacy. 

Within two minutes and only two bites, I had a surprise visitor in my presence.  My cat Bear!  He also seemed to have the desire to have Marie Calendar’s Chicken Pot Pie tonight.

He jumped from the carpet to the table and knocking my hard earned dinner all over the floor.

While for a brief moment I was furious, within a few seconds I was laughing and thinking, “If I didn’t love you… I would put you out of your misery.”

Unconditional Love!

Isn’t it funny how special that is.  I only know of a few times in my life that I felt unconditional love to or from someone else.  But it’s easy for us to have an unconditional love for our pets.  Bizarre! 

I guess the most important lesson I took from this is that no matter how sad, lonely, hungry, tired we get.  We who believe are so blessed to have that unconditional love Christ had for us.

While still hungry and searching for something to eat, I feel blessed today in knowing that He loved us so much that he gave his life so we could be forgiven for all of our sins.    How Cool.

Letting Go.

I spend a lot of my day driving around town and to be honest, it gives me way to much time to think.  Think about People, Places, Things and sometimes something as silly as why I like the smell of Cherry flavored Chapstick, but I don't like using it?

With that being said, my time in the car often leads to mass confusion as well.  Again, about people, places, things and will God really never give me more than I can handle.  So far, he's proven that to me, but it's been close at times.

I have a friend right now who recently went through a divorce and his having trouble with her two daughters.  They don't understand why their Dad won't spend time with them.

I have another friend who is dealing with the loss of a loved one, by choice, not death.

Over the weekend my Dad had what equated to a heart attack.

Suddenly, all of my little problems seem so insignificant.  I find I deal with things best when I use these simple little words in my life.

"LET GO...AND LET GOD"

It's when I truly hand things over to him that he eventually shows me the path he has intended for me.  

While it's not always the easiest thing to do.  For today, it's all I can do.

God Bless each of you.

Ken

Today's Deep Thoughts

Have you ever wandered.  Why God me?  Interesting question when you really think about it.  Why God did you put me in this situation.  Why God did you introduce me to this person or that one.  Why God am I feeling pain.  Why God do you want me to feel this way.

The Answer?  I really don't know, but what I do know from my personal experience is after studying these issues the majority of the day it really comes down to me and my FAITH.    I truly have to believe that for whatever reason, God has planted a seed in me and I don't have to know exactly what his plan is for me.  Knowing that he loves me and sent his son to die on the cross for me has to be enough.  That's not always easy when I get wrapped up in ME, ME, ME. or I, I, I..  It is so easy for me to get caught up on myself when I feel wronged, or when I feel heartache or pain.  But that's when I need to step back out of myself and look at all the things God has blessed me with, move past it and hand it back over to him.  If it's so SIMPLE, why is it so HARD.