What is so ironic...Everyone in that class had the same kind of day as I did!! This can not be pretty...at one point we revolted against our teacher...what a lively class and a lively discussion it led to. If you missed class tonight...you missed it!!
The first God moment came when: we all picked up our questions for class and the heading was "Seeing God"....as we sat prior to the video Craig, (our poor unfortunate teacher tonight) said "I messed up, that should say Seeing the Good not Seeing God". So for us that needed an attitude adjustment tonight that is just what we got when we put the two together realizing we see God when seeing the good in all situations. Talk about God shoving it in our face...we all know nothing is a mistake...God knew we needed that point driven home!
Our lesson tonight was all about seeing the best and the good in any situation we are in...and as I said...what a discussion we had! It led off in so many directions you had to be a racer to keep up with us. I am sure minds were spinning as we jumped from topic to topic.
Every week we have "Our Human Condition" that we start every day reading....this week it said:
"We have difficulty seeing good in all situations. We feel no honor in suffering. And as for putting others ahead of ourselves, let them go first. When something good happens, then we'll say thanks. Until then, we prefer reality."
That's how we see it...we only say "yeehaw" when things are good but we have all been in awful situations where looking back on it we see how something really good came from this dreadful situation. From this divorce and betrayal came a closeness to my boys and their families I never would have experienced. The boys have both drawn closer to their faith. There was good that came from this horrible situation...but it took years for me to appreciate that.
As we finished with prayer tonight we asked for an attitude adjustment...to help us listen to God and know the good in our situations...no matter what they are....because good will come from it if we are open to God.
The lesson ends with our marks of an obedient community which tonight said "Obedient community sees all experiences and situations as occasions for God's transforming power to work." Notice there is no distinction between good or bad experiences...God's power works in both.
There was much discussion about Paul tonight...but that will wait until tomorrow...
So give it to me God I am in dire need of an attitude adjustment!
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