To learn

I wanted to share with you what A and I read last night in our devotional.
It smacked me across the head, which is a very good thing!

"Godliness with contentment is great gain"
-1Timothy 6:6 NIV

Why did this strike me? Well contentment is my word.
I felt God calling me to really dig deep and study just what it is to be content.
To understand it, to live it, to apply it, to spit it back out in my life.

It goes on to say that God values contentment because he is never discontent.
He has everything he needs because he is everything he needs.
And he wants us to be content with him and all that he gives us.

This spoke volumes to me last night. I had just been talking to Lori I was feeling kind of down, she was uplifting me and sharing with me
that God had my back.
I tend to lay things down at God's feet. Some things I am good at laying down, others..
Not so much.
Like the whole house thing.
We want that house so very badly.
But I have to find my content in God.
I have to know that he has my back.
I have to lay it all down at Jesus' feet.

I thought last night's devotional spoke volumes to me. Maybe it will to you as well...

May you truly find contentment by being godly so that we can gain God's grace!


365 #21 thingy
Today's photo is courtesy of Alyssa. You think her hair looks cute? So do I. But she hates it.
She asked me this morning to use the flat iron on her hair. Our flat iron does both. It flattens and it curls.
So I had it on the curling iron part. I asked her if she wanted it flipped up or down. She said up.
So I do that. It's darling. And honestly looks so much better than it does when it scraggly.
However Alyssa hates it. She walked out of the bathroom laughing.
When I asked her why, she said nothing.
I hate that.
Even though she's smiling and looks adorable it wasn't a very good time for us both.
But.. That is what life is all about. Not always those peaches and cream times.
So I tell her I will fix it. She doesn't want me too.
She gets into a tizzy {after the photo of course}
and I want her to talk about it with me.
She doesn't want to.
I want to fix it for her...
To help her.
But I realize that nothing I do or say is going to fix it.
So I tell her I'm done.
But I am frustrated.
I get the whole I don't like my hair thing. Truly I do.
But I was trying to help and she just wasn't budging.
*Sigh*
So before I say I'm done, I inform her that either we are cutting her hair
or I need for her to try to use the iron daily because it looks horrible.
Like she doesn't brush it at all.
She says yes ma'am.
I come down here to vent...
LOL.
*Sigh*