Paper Angels and the Message of Job

I rewatched the movie Paper Angels, 

I really like it. Encouraging.

So I had another good talk today.

Here was the advice, 

from someone who lives it and has suffered...

We have to remember Job and how he lost everything

and still praised God, still rejoiced...

we need to be still with God and wait for His timing,

for His miracle,

which may come when we feel like we can't go on any longer.

And I was reminded of how God has helped me in the past

when I was in real trouble and that in our time of

trouble now, He promises to never leave us.

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In other news, 

the dishes I ordered did not come yet and may be lost.

I will know more hopefully within a few days.

I was reminded that during the holiday time, 

things may be a bit backed up.

So I am thinking I may need to do my blue and white dishes

and alternate them instead of my Grandma's set for this Thursday lunch.

We will see.  

I am trying to learn the art of taking it as it comes

and that it can be good as long as I keep it 

simple and enjoy it.

I was challenged to remember that sometimes I make

things too big a project for me to do without stress.

So, trying to have this meal on Thursday be a thing of joy

and simple.  This is hard for me to do and something I need to 

recapture, as I had it in Ottawa and was very happy in it.

So it goes.

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No matter what, I see that I am called to be thankful,

to rejoice, even when things only seem to go wrong.

And I realize that a lot is still going right for me

and that I am very blessed.

Somehow to be like Job is to 

do what Jan Karon writes of, and fly lightly,

light a butterfly...