Somewhere along the way, my life fell out of order. My to-do-list sprawled with things I couldn’t get done, my rooms filled up with clutter I didn’t have time or energy to deal with, my days became frantic jumps from aimless activity to aimless activity.
Yet, by the grace of God, things seem to be coming back into order.
This week I’m thankful for…
…new clothes hangers so that all my clothes can now be hung properly instead of piled about my bedroom.
…newly-designed planner pages which help bring some long-lost order to my daily routines (and enable me to eat breakfast again!)
…a long screw holding my towel rack up so I can again have some order in my bathroom
…starting to catch up at work, which makes my days oh-so-less-stressful
…scheduled evenings which counter-intuitively make my life more peaceful (that is, scheduled evenings that are consistent)
…a God of order as opposed to a god of chaos
“Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?
Tell Me, if you have understanding.
Who determined its measurements?
Surely you know!
Or who stretched the line upon it?
To what were its foundations fastened?
Or who laid its cornerstone,
When the morning stars sang together,
And all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Or who shut in the sea with doors,
When it burst forth and issued from the womb;
When I made the clouds its garment,
And thick darkness its swaddling band;
When I fixed My limit for it,
And set bars and doors;”~Job 38:4-10
The God who made the universe, who set its boundaries and ordered every star, this is the God I serve, the Lord of heaven and earth. Praise be to the King of Kings and the God of gods.
Amen! A God of Order is something to be thankful for indeed…although I don’t think I would have ever necessarily thought to state the obvious like that.
And clothes hangers. I’m always running out of them which is odd because I don’t own THAT many clothes. I think I only have major shortage issues when I get through the entire pile of laundry in one day. ;)