Reality!? and Disciplines? and things that I love to love

What really is meant, when someone says "thats reality".  what is reality?  This is the question that is currently bouncing around in my head.  Along with what kind of disciplines do I have?  I have been asked to think about what is my interpretation or take on reality, and in a way i have writers block or thinking block whatever you want to call it block.  I am thinking to my self... "self, how can you prepare for what your journey ahead is going to bring?" I would try to answer, but i got nothing.  There are the obvious that you normally go to; prayer, time in the word, talking about it with others who have been where you are going spiritually and physically.  But ultimately I believe that it has to be something you learn for yourself. I know that God will not put us in a situation that we can't handle, it will be hard but we can handle it.  It should make us fully reliant on God, knowing that we can not do it alone and we need his guidance to set us on the path he has for us... I know this questions might not be answered yet but I can be patient and wait.  

My dad gave me this really cool book called; Disciplines for the inner life,  it is crazy how Gods timing brings you something you need to hear or read, this is a little blurb from that exact thing i needed to hear: 

" God guides us, despite our uncertainties and our vagueness, even through our failings and mistakes.  He often starts us off to the left, only to bring us up in the end to the right; or else he brings us back to the right, after a long detour, because we started off by mistake to the left in the belief that we were obeying him.  He leads us step by step, from event to event.  Only afterwards, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in out lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us.

It was he who made us meet this man, made us hear that remark, read that book, with all the decisive consequences they have bad on our lives.  We did not perhaps know it at the time. Time has had to elapse to enable us to see it.  Thus, the disciples on the Emmaus road talked with Jesus without recognizing him (luke 24:13-35).  It was he who brought us up short be means of a dream which at first we did not understand, a serious illness, a strange hesitation, or a painful failure.  It was he also who guided us by means of a success, and so opened up a new and unexpected horizon to us.  Ah, that is the true answer to our perplexing problem of success and failure!

~From Reflections by Paul Tournier

God does things to help us and guide us, I believe that we will never fully understand everything immediately that happens but we will see the fruit appear and know that why we had that suffering period and even that joyful period.  

The goal, in prayer, is to give oneself away.  The Lord loves us- perhaps most of all, when we fail and try again.~Emily Griffin.  keep praying hard, and be consistent in doing that.  

Things that i love:

• Jesus
• Family
• my dog mocha
• a freshly opened jar of peanut butter
  
• snow, it makes me very happy
• a movie that makes me feel good
• quality hang out time with friends
• aspen trees
• the sound of leafs being stepped on
• making peoples day/laugh /smile
• making cookies from scratch 
• a big bone fire 

The list can go on and on.  I even love to love.  

until next time 

PEACE from the M O O S E