Turning Over Tables

Several have asked if I could change the colors of this blog to make it easier to read. So, I will try and play with that later on to see what I can come up with. I was going to blog yesterday, but was glad I waited.

I received a phone call on Friday afternoon while tring to have a Mom & Adam day in Sioux Falls. He was off school, I was needing a day away from the computer so off we went. The phone call had me so angry that I was "turning over tables kind of mad".

I have to be careful on how I blog this, but the issue at hand had to deal with a long history of lies in a Pharisiaic sort of nature. One thing that can make me very angry, very fast is being lied to (over & over) by someone who claims to be as John Wesley put it, "Striving on to perfection". And so .... I felt a bit like Jesus tossing over few tables and pointing fingers at the Pharisees . Jesus was a bit miffed .... see Matthew 21:12-17.

I have calmed down some, am still miffed, but at least the smoke has diminished. Sometimes, I just want to take off the gloves and fight you know? and then again sometimes it just makes me tired. I want to be gracefilled, I want to forgive and forget ...... and on the other hand ... I want to stand up and say "This kind of behavior is wrong, don't you see, why can't you see?"

I am prayerful today, prayerful for this situation, prayerful for the person ......... but will keep moving forward believing with all my heart that God intends for shepherds hearts and gracefilled lives rather than Pharisiac jargon.

With many thoughts today ........ I'm pressing on.

Lori