I'm kind of excited about today! I'm getting a new chair! I guess as I have gotten older it doesn't take as much to excite me as it once did. I have been thinking over the past few days, when I bought my "old" chair just a few years ago, I really wasn't expecting to spend as much time in it as I do now. As a result, it's like me, kind of showing it's age and quite rapidly at that. Honestly, I really didn't need a new chair but I wanted one!
And of course as we so often do at my house and have done over the years, we had a discussion about needs and wants. We so often get those things mixed up. I often think we all do from time to time. God has blessed us in so many ways, we often find us seeing new pretty things that we decide we need. I mean we think we just can't live without it. While in reality, these things are just things we wanted to make our lives easier, fun, happier or whatever emotion we feel to make the purchase.
I often think about my grandparents and the modest life they lived. My Granddaddy would almost be amused at all the "stuff" we need today. Now Granddaddy had a recliner and enjoyed sitting in it just as I enjoy mine. But I also seem to remember a piece of duct tape or two on the arm rests to seal the cracks as it started to wear. There's not a day goes by that I do not think about Granddaddy and the many things that has had such an impact on me. It wasn't necessarily the specific conversations we had, the time we spent together in his shop or being in church with him. But it was his life. A modest, humble, Godly man who was in my opinion rooted and grounded in the things that was truly important.
I think about my Dad, who was very much like his Dad. I wish I was more like both of them. My Dad had it right also when it comes to what was really needed. Not too long before he passed, he made a list of things that were important to him. The first thing on the list, the most important thing in his life, was when he accepted Christ as his personal Savior. Well, that is one thing I got from them and that is at the top of my list also.
During this time of the year, the TV is full of commercials for new, shiny things. I have ads pop up on the computer all the time and I think, I need one of those. We drive down the street and see billboards and store windows with all kinds of alluring things. Have you checked your mailbox lately? Mine is full of flyers and catalogs all with nice, neat, fun things that sure make me think, I need that. And I'm blessed, every once in a while when I decide I want one of those things, I'm often able to buy one. No duct tape on my chair. LOL
I think it was yesterday, I shared a song written by Dianne Wilkinson. "What We Needed" is another one of the songs she was inspired to write. In 2008 it was nominated as the #1 gospel song of the year as sung by the Kingdom Heirs. It serves as a reminder, that "God looked down in grace and love and saw our greatest need". "What we needed was a Savior, pure and sinless to die for the wrong we've done." There's not a lot of commercials, billboards, mail box flyers (thank God, there are some) that keeps in front of us what we truly need. I pray you will be blessed hearing the Kingdom Heirs sing this great song today.
I hope you will have a great Wednesday!
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