This is my month of August in a nutshell:
School year starting!
Tired
Discouraged
Excited
Running on adrenaline
Pop tart wrappers crushed in the cupholder
Snooze button smashing
Baby monitor wailing
Family laughing and babies crying
New camera
Runny noses In case you were wondering, yes,
Finding sticky pink medicine droplets this picture is a joke!
Eighth graders singing "Beautiful Things"
Jewelry in the pocket, running out the door
3:00 am feedings (Yes, still)
Dancing to Backyardigans
Clouds of hairspray
Rolling past stop signs
Lunch duty
Playfully hitting husband when kids aren't watching
Sweaty swinging and climbing
Hurricane anticipating
Diaper changing and potty training
Castle building
Fast food eating
Desperate, rushed, and self-centered prayersQuick scriptures (like trying to enjoy lunch while I'm on duty)
But somehow in the midst of it all, God managed to grab me tight and whisper something sweet:
One day is like a thousand years....
2 Peter 3:8-9
But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day.
Usually I hear people referring to this scripture when explaining how God is outside of time or even how the world may have been created. They concentrate on the "a thousand years is like a day" part.
But let me slow down and read the first part. One day is like a thousand years.
One day is like a thousand years to God?
He smiled down on me and let me see. I got a glimpse of how He knows every moment of every person. He cares for every moment. Thousands of moments in my day are seen by God and loved by God. And yours, too.
Ps 56:8
8 You number my wanderings;
Put my tears into Your bottle;
Are they not in Your book?
NKJV (emphasis mine)
Put my tears into Your bottle;
Are they not in Your book?
NKJV (emphasis mine)
Ps 139:13-16
13 Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out;
you formed me in my mother's womb.
14 I thank you, High God — you're breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration — what a creation!
15 You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
16 Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
before I'd even lived one day.
you formed me in my mother's womb.
14 I thank you, High God — you're breathtaking!
Body and soul, I am marvelously made!
I worship in adoration — what a creation!
15 You know me inside and out,
you know every bone in my body;
You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit,
how I was sculpted from nothing into something.
16 Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth;
all the stages of my life were spread out before you,
The days of my life all prepared
before I'd even lived one day.
(from THE MESSAGE: The Bible in Contemporary Language © 2002 by Eugene H. Peterson. All rights reserved.) (Emphasis mine.)
