I had a good Sabbath last week. I chose to stay home and not take part in activities that did not glorify God and I don't regret it. To go would not have been worth it.
I want to do better.
Sunday, I headed to work still with a mouth fresh with stitches from Thursday's surgery. I ate solids that morning, but was still hungry and nauseous from the meds. When I went to sit down, I saw a familiar book set before me. It was one of the prime Adventist literature I would pass out some years back (I used to also be the ABC bookstore girl at one point for my church).
It was the Great Controversy.
I've never known the church to mail out copies to random addresses and I learned that this happened after inspecting it and asking my client about it. I asked him if I could have it, but he said he wanted to read it since I told him it talked about Jesus, an accurate history of what happened over the centuries, and what to expect in the future (highlighting what God says in the Holy Bible).
I read the first chapter of it, still desiring to have it.
I had in my mind to go out to the movie theater on Thursday that week to see a Christian movie called War Room. The previous Sabbath, while looking at acceptable content, I saw a commercial for it. I have not been to a theater in years and thought it would be a great thing to do the day after I quit my job for good.
I also wanted to have a smoothie. I was sick that morning from the doxycycline the dentist prescribed me to keep infection away from the surgery site. I thought this only AFTER my mouth started bleeding profusely for over 30 minutes. It didn't bleed Friday or Saturday but decided to do this on Sunday. I called the answering service for my dentist and they told me to use tea bags. The tannin in the bags stops bleeding so I did that and it finally stopped.
My client later said he wanted to go to his church because they were showing a movie. He isn't a Christian and only goes to scope out the ladies, but I still took him with hope that perhaps he would accept this church's message. It really is a nice Methodist church and even though some people are standoffish, they are friendly. So I took him and enjoyed a movie called, Ring the Bell. Before the movie started, the pastor mentioned something that sounded like the word "smoothie", but I thought I misheard.
After the movie, he reminded the congregation that they were in fact serving SMOOTHIES in the gym. I was excited about this and headed there to find they had several smoothie bars set up all around the gym. I had a delicious fruit based smoothie and my client had milk based ones (cookies and cream, and fruit).
God knew I wanted a smoothie because of my mouth surgery and provided it. He also knew something else I didn't know.
I expected my son to not be with me that week and I learned last minute that my childcare arrangements fell through. That would mean no time for a Thursday movie for War Room. So the Lord blessed me with a wonderful film that Sunday and fed me too!
On September 1st, I came to work and looked again at the book that my client had thinking he's not going to read it. I decided to buy the book for myself. I placed an order on Amazon that morning.
September 1st was the day I was baptized into the Adventist church back in 2007. I felt it was important for me to recommit myself to God and get back to what I used to do, even though I do not currently attend church or have a church home. I'm praying about that too. I prayed that day for the Lord to help me not keep quiet about His goodness.
September 2nd came, my last day at my job. A young lady came to shadow me and near the end of the shift, she revealed some stuff about her mental health to me and her spiritual struggle. I used the opportunity to share with her what I knew about her diagnosis from a budding psychotherapists standpoint. I also was able to talk about God to her too and she was receptive.
I will continue to talk to God about any future I think I might have doing clinical level work. I don't know what the future will bring, but I'm glad Jesus will be apart of it. Today is Sabbath. I checked Amazon to see when my Great Controversy book copy would arrive and it gave me some ridiculous out of the time period. I put my phone aside to check my mail.
The book arrived today well ahead of time. Right on time for me to read today.
So if we cast our care upon Him, He will care for us. I've gone periods where I didn't think God cared for me. In all this, even as little as it may seem to other people, I know He cares.
I just have to put in extra effort on my part to show Him my care for Him.
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