This past weekend the kids and I ventured to Fayetteville to see the savanna banana baseball team. If you don’t know who that is let me fill you in. To me they are like a Harlem globetrotter for baseball. They are truly baseball players that didn’t make it in the major leagues or just retired. They are talented. They walk on stilts, sing, dance, all while playing baseball.
As I sat Friday before we left, I began adding our tickets into my apple wallet. Now if some of you don’t understand what that is it is a place on your phone where you store your tickets so they can be accessed and scanned for entrance. I like many of you have old, expired tickets in my wallet, tickets that need to be sent to the trash.
I entered the first ticket but then after that my other tickets would not load. I panicked a little when things like that don’t work. I kept trying and trying they just wouldn’t move to my wallet.
This reminded me of just last week when I went down a rabbit hole. I began to worry with all the kids starting school and daycare my mind circles around the what if’s. Then it went from school to church worries, then to other worries and on and on. I had such a hard time pulling myself up out of that hole. I was digging deeper and deeper and when I do that, I have such a difficult time pulling myself out. I was cramming more and more into my wallet, things that didn’t need to be there at all. And usually, all of these worries that I pack into the wallet are for no reason at all.
This week in our bible study the bible recap we have been reading about Jeremiah, poor guy. Jeremiah was known as the weeping prophet because he grieves over Judah ‘s state. He had three assignments pluck up and break down, destroy and overthrow, and build and plant. He knew there would be destruction but there’ll also be restoration. God promises Jeremiah a battle but also a victory. He had so much in his wallet. He couldn’t get it through Israels head what they were doing was only trying to quench their own thirst and not letting God pour living water into them. He couldn’t make Isreal understand what God had placed in his wallet was true and what the people were putting in their wallet was worthless.
In Jeremiah 1:4-5. It says that God created us in the womb, and he knows us and sets us apart. Before Jeremiah was created God already had a plan for his future. This is just like us. God already has placed in our wallet our plan. But what do we do? We try to add things that shouldn’t be there. He knows us He created us He knows what needs to be in our wallet. Don’t try to force what doesn’t need to be there. Only have in your wallet what God places in your wallet. You will be able to know if whatever is in your wallet is there because of God put it there or because you try to keep stuffing it in. If it is God placed you will have a calmness, not saying you won’t have some worry, but you will have a peace about it.
Needless to say, my banana ball tickets finally added to my wallet because I changed my browser. Life is like this sometimes we are browsing in the wrong direction.
Add to your wallet what God wants to be in your wallet don’t try to push or shove. If it is God’s plan it will not have to be forced it will just gently go into your wallet.
So, to have your wallet filled with JOY this week remember-
1.Show up for JESUS – Start your day in the Word.
2. Show up for OTHERS – Serve others, whether they are like you or not, whether they annoy you or are difficult to understand. That is what Jesus did; He showed up for everyone.
3. Show up for YOU – You need to fill your cup before you can help fill others’ cups.
WE WILL FIND JOY WHEN WE SHOW UP FOR JESUS, OTHERS, AND OURSELVES.
As Father Mike says, “You pray for me, and I will pray for you.”
Have a great week, Cupcake loves you.
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