Today during church, God flipped around how I was looking at it - because as usual, I was looking at it wrong. :)
Nothing I have is mine.
Not my clothes, not my dishes, not my food, not my friends or family, not even my own talents or body. Girl say whaaaat? I worked hard to earn my money and spend it on MY THINGS.But everything I "have," isn't mine. It's God. He's given me things to manage - that's where stewardship (something I've been thinking about all semester) comes in. All of the things I have been blessed with are for me to invest in others with for God's kingdom - my time, my talents, everything I have.
My future falls in there, too.
I want to be a therapeutic mom someday (I'll explain that in detail to y'all...someday). Sometimes kids with RAD (the kids I want to live with me) do things like...burn down buildings, hurt animals and other people, and it is a plausible possibility that the children I take into my home could sexually or physically abuse my own children (unfortunately and heartbreakingly, these things happen).
Everything I have is not mine - not even my own children (someday) or husband or home.
So I've been thinking - let's say someday one of my crazy children burns down the house.
What would I do if my house burned down and I lost all of "my things?" Would that be the end of my life?
No. I'm merely managing what God gives me, when He gives it. There is so much peace in that - knowing I don't have to create things for me to manage or worry about a job or a future because none of it is mine. I'm just a steward and manager of what God's given me.
That seemed a lot more mind blowing in my...mind, BUT I wanted to share it! Because it was pretty neat for me to think about that and it's restructured basically everything for me in 24 hours.
Also I hope you thought from the title that I actually burned my house down because I like giving people baby heart attacks. Okay byeeeeee!
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