All Good Things
Well, here we go. I am trying something new - New size, color and style of font for the blog. I am somewhat an out of the box type person. This means I don't like being stuck in a rut with things being same ole same ole. I am probably somewhat routine about some things but if opportunity offers something new and different somewhere I am apt to consider trying the new and different as long as it is a safe thing. I like to try new things but I am not a BIG risk taker. I guess trying a new font, color and size is not very risky.
At the Bair Lake Bible Camp Women's Retreat a couple weekends ago we enjoyed Bible teaching from Marcie Rahill on the names of God. Basically Marcie focused on three of those names. The one I have been touched with most was Jehovah Jireh - God will provide.
God has certainly provided for me all my life in wonderful and ample ways. Certainly I do not always realize how fully He provides but once in a while I am absolutely awed by His provision. There are the day to day things that God provides and I am very thankful for those sustaining provisions. There was the eternal salvation God offered through His Son, The Lord Jesus Christ. I am aware of that provision and claim it as personal and constant. But there are many ways that The Father provides for me that I just take for granted and there are wonderful ways that He provides when I am feeling a need and asking for His Help.
Recently I accepted a responsibility that seemed to just pop up in my life. I thought originally - "oh, piece of cake - no problem - I can do that." HA HA - Never say that!
In all honesty every job I have taken on as a service to The Lord has proven me inadequate and God adequate. Nothing I have done was because I have the skill or creativity etc etc. God provided the skill, the creativity, the time and the energy in virtually ALL cases.
After I accepted the job I was informed that NO it was not as easy as described and I would need to do certain things not originally described. Now I have to admit that the person who asked me did not intend to mislead me. I have to also admit that perhaps I would have said NO to the request had I known the requirements in full. But having seen full disclosure I said YES anyway since I truly felt God wanted me to do this task. After all, I had been thinking to myself that perhaps God had something He wanted me to do and this seemed to be it.
THIS is: Being Moppets Co-ordinater for the MOPS group that two of my daughters are active with. (MOPS - Mothers of Pre-Schoolers, Moppets - The pre-schoolers that MOPS are mothers to.) This job entails making sure Shepherds are available for Moppet rooms - calling subs etc. and providing and telling the story for two Moppet age groups and organizing and providing the craft to accompany the story. I thought the stories were all set-up and the craft plans were all in place. NOPE - that's my job. I get to pick the story and figure out a craft.
MOPS International does provide curriculum and ideas but when it was time for me to prepare for my maiden voyage I hadn't figured out how to navigate the site yet. The materials for suggestions from a former Moppets Co-ordinator got to me the weekend before I was supposed to be prepared and that weekend was booked with extra activity and events. The day before my first MOPS to be ready for also had a doctor appointment etc. etc. But the day before I knew I had to figure something out and make a craft up etc. I was praying that day.
Sometime during the day before and maybe even the week before I did recall how that God is the One that supplies me with whatever I need for these tasks and not my own wherewithal that gets the job done. And GOD did supply. He gave me as He gives always - everything I needed. He gave me a story to tell - a craft idea - the supplies I needed AND best of all the energy to stay up until 2AM to prepare. When I got into a pickle figuring out how to do a part of the preparation God reminded me how to solve the problem. It was all very amazing.
Now I do have experience telling stories -with God's help of course - but I have not told a many stories to the very young such as pre-schoolers. My best experiences has been with elementary age and adults. I was not at my highest level of confidence in doing this. The lady I had watched the week I observed was a pro and I wasn't so sure I could do such a good job. But I kept thinking of what we learned at Women's Retreat of how God supplied the Ram in the thicket for Abraham as an offering. I know God can even give courage to the weak hearted - like me.
It is appropriate that the truth I wrote for the children on the top of their craft was: God gives us all good things. The story was of the disciples fishing all night with no success and how in the morning the not yet ascended Lord Jesus Christ appeared on the shore and told them to fish on the other side and they caught an overflowing of fish. Now theologians might tell you that the lesson of that story in John 21 was not to say that God gives all good things. But if you look at the story it does tell that message anyway. Little pre-schoolers just need to learn who God is and what He is all about. They need to learn that in all the situations in life that God will give all things. They need to learn many other truths about God too and we had lots of fun hearing the story of how Jesus helped the disciples fill their nets to overflowing. Most importantly the storyteller (that would be me) learned again very graphically how GOD does provide ALL good things. HE provided and my own net was overflowing with blessings. I thought I was doing something for God but HE did it all and I received. Praise God who gives us ALL GOOD THINGS.
At the Bair Lake Bible Camp Women's Retreat a couple weekends ago we enjoyed Bible teaching from Marcie Rahill on the names of God. Basically Marcie focused on three of those names. The one I have been touched with most was Jehovah Jireh - God will provide.
God has certainly provided for me all my life in wonderful and ample ways. Certainly I do not always realize how fully He provides but once in a while I am absolutely awed by His provision. There are the day to day things that God provides and I am very thankful for those sustaining provisions. There was the eternal salvation God offered through His Son, The Lord Jesus Christ. I am aware of that provision and claim it as personal and constant. But there are many ways that The Father provides for me that I just take for granted and there are wonderful ways that He provides when I am feeling a need and asking for His Help.
Recently I accepted a responsibility that seemed to just pop up in my life. I thought originally - "oh, piece of cake - no problem - I can do that." HA HA - Never say that!
In all honesty every job I have taken on as a service to The Lord has proven me inadequate and God adequate. Nothing I have done was because I have the skill or creativity etc etc. God provided the skill, the creativity, the time and the energy in virtually ALL cases.
After I accepted the job I was informed that NO it was not as easy as described and I would need to do certain things not originally described. Now I have to admit that the person who asked me did not intend to mislead me. I have to also admit that perhaps I would have said NO to the request had I known the requirements in full. But having seen full disclosure I said YES anyway since I truly felt God wanted me to do this task. After all, I had been thinking to myself that perhaps God had something He wanted me to do and this seemed to be it.
THIS is: Being Moppets Co-ordinater for the MOPS group that two of my daughters are active with. (MOPS - Mothers of Pre-Schoolers, Moppets - The pre-schoolers that MOPS are mothers to.) This job entails making sure Shepherds are available for Moppet rooms - calling subs etc. and providing and telling the story for two Moppet age groups and organizing and providing the craft to accompany the story. I thought the stories were all set-up and the craft plans were all in place. NOPE - that's my job. I get to pick the story and figure out a craft.
MOPS International does provide curriculum and ideas but when it was time for me to prepare for my maiden voyage I hadn't figured out how to navigate the site yet. The materials for suggestions from a former Moppets Co-ordinator got to me the weekend before I was supposed to be prepared and that weekend was booked with extra activity and events. The day before my first MOPS to be ready for also had a doctor appointment etc. etc. But the day before I knew I had to figure something out and make a craft up etc. I was praying that day.
Sometime during the day before and maybe even the week before I did recall how that God is the One that supplies me with whatever I need for these tasks and not my own wherewithal that gets the job done. And GOD did supply. He gave me as He gives always - everything I needed. He gave me a story to tell - a craft idea - the supplies I needed AND best of all the energy to stay up until 2AM to prepare. When I got into a pickle figuring out how to do a part of the preparation God reminded me how to solve the problem. It was all very amazing.
Now I do have experience telling stories -with God's help of course - but I have not told a many stories to the very young such as pre-schoolers. My best experiences has been with elementary age and adults. I was not at my highest level of confidence in doing this. The lady I had watched the week I observed was a pro and I wasn't so sure I could do such a good job. But I kept thinking of what we learned at Women's Retreat of how God supplied the Ram in the thicket for Abraham as an offering. I know God can even give courage to the weak hearted - like me.
It is appropriate that the truth I wrote for the children on the top of their craft was: God gives us all good things. The story was of the disciples fishing all night with no success and how in the morning the not yet ascended Lord Jesus Christ appeared on the shore and told them to fish on the other side and they caught an overflowing of fish. Now theologians might tell you that the lesson of that story in John 21 was not to say that God gives all good things. But if you look at the story it does tell that message anyway. Little pre-schoolers just need to learn who God is and what He is all about. They need to learn that in all the situations in life that God will give all things. They need to learn many other truths about God too and we had lots of fun hearing the story of how Jesus helped the disciples fill their nets to overflowing. Most importantly the storyteller (that would be me) learned again very graphically how GOD does provide ALL good things. HE provided and my own net was overflowing with blessings. I thought I was doing something for God but HE did it all and I received. Praise God who gives us ALL GOOD THINGS.
posted by Marjorie Meinzinger @ 10:29 AM
1 Comments:
At 3:40 PM, October 31, 2006,
Heather said…
Mom,
Thanks for knowing that I never ment to mislead you and that in fact I gave as accurate a description of the job as I could based on what I knew it to be! I am glad in hindsight that I didn't know all the details since then you might have said no. ;-)
You are an amazing storyteller! And I am so glad my little ones reap the benefit of that via MOPS and via Grandma time. I believe the other Moms at MOPS are also very grateful to have you to. Thanks for stepping up and taking on the responsiblity.
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