Prayer Warriors Unite!

VBS started today!!! My internship for the past month has been prepping for this week! I will tell you all about it at the end of the week, but I want to enlist you all to pray for everything involving VBS. We've been praying for 100 kids, and that didn't happen today, at least. We had about 30. And honestly, numbers don't matter. But what I ask that you pray for is for more of the neighborhood kids to come - most, if not all of the 30 we had today were church kids...which is awesome! But the point is to reach our community- and our community is pretty ghetto, and needs Jesus bad. 

So please pray!! And of course, I will go into full detail about the week later, and maybe even have some pictures. (: 

Picture Perfect

"We are not meant to be seen as God's perfect, bright-shining examples, but to be seen as the everyday essence of ordinary life exhibiting the miracle of His grace."  - Oswald Chambers

That may seem obvious to some people, but it definitely wasn't to me. As soon as I read that in My Utmost For His Highest, I felt like a burden was lifted off my shoulders. I've always struggled with trying to be perfect for people, because I felt like if ever I messed up, that would be a mark against God. And whenever I did mess up, that just got to me like no other. I hate when people are mad at me, or when people think badly of me, or are disappointed in me. And obviously, no one likes that, but that was my worst fear- ever. I know that I am representing Christ to all who are around me, and so I had to be a "perfect, bright-shining example." I don't like to show my weaknesses to anyone. Always be strong, Meaghan. 

People have told me before, 'you're only human, you can't be perfect all the time'. And I know that, but that didn't stop me from trying. Until now. I've never heard the flip side of it - the benefit of NOT being perfect. But oh, how obvious it is! Of course...we are to live as humans, always striving to be Christ-like, but showing how we can't do anything apart from God's grace. I think that is beautiful. We are weak! But praise Him for His grace - "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." -2Cor 12: 8. 

"For when I am weak, then I am strong." v.10

Amen!

All I Need

The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not be in want. 

He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters, He restores my soul.

He guides me in paths of righteousness for His name's sake. 

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me. 

You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. 

You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. 

Surely goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. 

Psalm 23

Water, please.

A customer at work taught me something about God the other day. He is a regular, this customer, and he is not very thankful for what he gets. He always says, "hot water", and hands us either his tin mug or some top ramen for lunch. He's a friendly guy, but he never says thank you. I had started noticing this lack of thankfulness after a while, and just the other day it really bothered me for some reason! I almost didn't want to give him the hot water (which is free, by the way) because I knew he wouldn't say thank you. I mean, come on buddy, it's not like I don't have things to do for the thankful people. But then it hit me. Oh my goodness Meaghan. You do that to God every day. He has blessed you with so many things at no cost to you, and you don't say thank you every time! Geez. God has to put up with people like that every minute of every day. And here I am complaining about one guy for one shift at work.

So after that realization, I have been trying a lot harder to thank God every minute for everything I have. Because it all comes from him. Even the hot water.