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S L O W transformations

Well...what a glorious life this is :)

I had written a post a few months ago about a miracle that took place on a 10 minute drive...well, here's a post about another one. That happened not so quickly. I'd guess over the course of a couple of years, but it happened so gradually that I got a snippet of it a few months ago and really grasped it only last week.

Confession: I was a pessimist. It was much easier to expect the bad and be pleasantly surprised when it didn't happen than to expect the good and be disappointed and sad. However. I realized that anytime anyone says something now that is negative, my brain ALWAYS flips it to the positive. I think my baby pointed it out a while back, telling me I was one of the most positive people he knew...(WHA??!) and then it hit me hard last week. I'm an optimist. Holy schnikes. With other people and even with myself and my future. That is bananas! Or perhaps not so bananas, because God is good and does indeed grant us the desire of our hearts when it lines up with his will!

Maybe this is an example of living out some Scripture: Finally brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable - if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things (Ephesians 4:8)

I tried that years ago. I have those words on cd, spoken by the lovely and British Sally Lloyd-Jones and I would listen to them whenever I was having a hard time finding something GOOD to occupy my brain. And by gosh - it worked. Later. Much later :)

I didn't even notice it had until the transformation took place.

Friends I write this because I don't want you to give up if there's something in you that you would like God to work on. He doesn't always make a change right away. Sometimes he lets the Holy Spirit work slowly. So slowly in fact that you may miss that the change happened at all until someone points it out :).

If there is something in your life that needs work - find Scripture that speaks to your issue. Let it soak in. Give it time to work. Pray it into your life. You never know what kind of person God is slowly shaping you to be! But whoever that person is...they're going to be glorious!

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