I was zapped after work today so I admit to totally channel surfing and vegging out in front of the TV while I sat on my couch eating crackers and squeezey cheese (which is totally gross) waiting for my son to get home from school. And there it was- a total 'aha' moment from God...in the form of Dr. Phil...proof, yet again, that God can use anyone and anything to speak to our circumstances.
The premise of the conversation Dr. Phil was having was with a woman who had been left by her husband completly out of the blue, and she was devastated. I do not relate to this woman's situation at all, and was about to surf back to Rachel Ray when Dr. Phil said to this woman that she needed to move on, etc, etc...and then he says to her: "If your house was on fire, you wouldn't sit in the middle of it and say 'I wish my house wasn't on fire, this really stinks', but you'd react to the situation going on around you." He went on to talk about dealing with 'it' (in her case her divorce) and not ignorning it or wishing it didn't happen or getting stuck...
No, my house isn't on fire nor has my husband left me... But I think we all at times get stuck in our present situation and choose to ignore certain 'things' going on around us. I know that every single situtaion isn't as pressing as if your house were on fire...but what if it were? What if we (or I) dealt with whatever the 'it' situation for that moment was instead of wishing it wasn't happening or ignoring it and hoping it would go away? What if when God moved or spoke, I listened and acted instead of questioning and whining and making quadrupally sure that it was God or that I heard Him correctly. If my house was on fire, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't stand around questioning which items to grab- I'd grab the kids and whatever else I could see and I'd get out- I'd deal with it!
Thanks, Dr. Phil for a random 'aha' moment today...I'm not gonna sit in 'it' today!
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Aha moment on Dr. Phil???
I was zapped after work today so I admit to totally channel surfing and vegging out in front of the TV while I sat on my couch eating crackers and squeezey cheese (which is totally gross) waiting for my son to get home from school. And there it was- a total 'aha' moment from God...in the form of Dr. Phil...proof, yet again, that God can use anyone and anything to speak to our circumstances.
The premise of the conversation Dr. Phil was having was with a woman who had been left by her husband completly out of the blue, and she was devastated. I do not relate to this woman's situation at all, and was about to surf back to Rachel Ray when Dr. Phil said to this woman that she needed to move on, etc, etc...and then he says to her: "If your house was on fire, you wouldn't sit in the middle of it and say 'I wish my house wasn't on fire, this really stinks', but you'd react to the situation going on around you." He went on to talk about dealing with 'it' (in her case her divorce) and not ignorning it or wishing it didn't happen or getting stuck...
No, my house isn't on fire nor has my husband left me... But I think we all at times get stuck in our present situation and choose to ignore certain 'things' going on around us. I know that every single situtaion isn't as pressing as if your house were on fire...but what if it were? What if we (or I) dealt with whatever the 'it' situation for that moment was instead of wishing it wasn't happening or ignoring it and hoping it would go away? What if when God moved or spoke, I listened and acted instead of questioning and whining and making quadrupally sure that it was God or that I heard Him correctly. If my house was on fire, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't stand around questioning which items to grab- I'd grab the kids and whatever else I could see and I'd get out- I'd deal with it!
Thanks, Dr. Phil for a random 'aha' moment today...I'm not gonna sit in 'it' today!
The premise of the conversation Dr. Phil was having was with a woman who had been left by her husband completly out of the blue, and she was devastated. I do not relate to this woman's situation at all, and was about to surf back to Rachel Ray when Dr. Phil said to this woman that she needed to move on, etc, etc...and then he says to her: "If your house was on fire, you wouldn't sit in the middle of it and say 'I wish my house wasn't on fire, this really stinks', but you'd react to the situation going on around you." He went on to talk about dealing with 'it' (in her case her divorce) and not ignorning it or wishing it didn't happen or getting stuck...
No, my house isn't on fire nor has my husband left me... But I think we all at times get stuck in our present situation and choose to ignore certain 'things' going on around us. I know that every single situtaion isn't as pressing as if your house were on fire...but what if it were? What if we (or I) dealt with whatever the 'it' situation for that moment was instead of wishing it wasn't happening or ignoring it and hoping it would go away? What if when God moved or spoke, I listened and acted instead of questioning and whining and making quadrupally sure that it was God or that I heard Him correctly. If my house was on fire, I'm pretty sure I wouldn't stand around questioning which items to grab- I'd grab the kids and whatever else I could see and I'd get out- I'd deal with it!
Thanks, Dr. Phil for a random 'aha' moment today...I'm not gonna sit in 'it' today!
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