Day 104
Clinician: “When you write all messy, what’s that called?”
Little Client: “You . . . you . . . (pause before lightbulb goes on) you ribble.”
So I guess I’m ribbling. Right now my life feels very ribbly. I’m grouchy. I’m irritated by my co-workers, my clinic responsibilities, and the fact that the group study rooms are locked when they should be open.
Maybe I didn’t get enough sleep last night. Maybe I got up on the wrong side of the bed.Maybe I’m just giving my sin nature the rein it shouldn’t have. I have a feeling that the last option is the correct option. Actually, I know it is. I have a choice – to react in my flesh to what’s going on, or respond in a manner that will be pleasing to the Lord.
Life in this world will never run out of irritations or messy situations. These trials, whatever their size, are opportunities for growth, for relying on the Lord’s strength and not my own. The “ribblings” of life can be a source of true joy as I reflect on the One who solved my biggest problem when he died on the cross and rose again.
James 1:2-4 Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. (NAS)
Made for Eternity 