A Thankful Thursday Post

 

How is your June going? Ours is going very nicely and quickly.  The weather is almost perfect. The last few years we have had such hot weather, I have forgot what June used to be like. Like when the kids were small and they wanted to swim but it was too cold. I am very thankful today, for nice memories like that. The smell of chlorine, and songs on the radio, with all of them singing in the back. The lazy days of summer.

 

Yesterday, the boys who live here, and Makenzie went to the beach for a day.  I was home all day by myself. I thought it would be day that I would enjoy doing what I like to do every minute of the day. I didn't.
I was lonesome, Sasha doesn't talk much. Nor do the chickens. I did things like I hooked and dyed wool. I went for a walk and cooked. Still it wasn't what I thought. I decided that I am not really Queen material. I am more of the peasant kind. I think being a servant is better. I find more fulfillment in that.

 To me, I think I am happiest when I remember, I am a servant willing to serve the the people
God brings into my life. 
Serving mean people
Nice ones
Funny ones
Sad and lonely people
Angry ones. Even those people who
post things on the internet that are hurtful and full of malice.
People who need love.
Jesus says it best.
" But I say to those who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you. Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who mistreat you...But love your enemies and do good and lend expecting nothing in return." ( Luke 6 :27-31)

 

   As  I go about my mornings, I think about the fact that a servant is one who can be counted on to do the work no one sees. To finally arrive at what I wish I were, and sadly, am not, I am still to full of self.
My ideal is this." A servant...will let himself be" lost." It is a great principle of the cross that He takes up---out of his own loss comes another's gain, out of his discomfort another's comfort.
My marching orders are as follows:
1.Leave myself behind.
2.Take up my cross.
3. Come away with Jesus. ( Because I can't do this without Him.)
     (Whoever cares for his own safety is lost.)
 4. But if a man or a woman will let himself be lost for My own sake he will find his true self.

 

I thought this summer, I would be doing lots of me things. Then I had one whole day. What-a-boring-long-day. I guess if dogs reflect our real selves, I am a Border Collie kind of person. I like jobs. I like routine. I like order because in order I find tranquility. Just don't keep to Sasha's routine and she goes bonkers. I realize I am just like my dog.

So today I am thankful, for a houseful of people, for laundry and for cooking and for cleaning house. I am thankful that I am surrounded by people. I am thankful today for this life I have been given. One in which to serve, and not be served. I am just not cut out to be a queen.
Have a lovely June day.
~Kim~

 

“Dear old world', she murmured, 'you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
---L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables