Love seeing God's love - Mobile Phone

Ok, 7:20am and I should NOT be here right now. I have 4 kids to get ready for school and Jeremy has already left for work, so it's just 'me' being the grown up, and this normally doesn't go well. Tee he he!

BUT, you know that full, overflowing, bubbling feeling when you see God working in your life and you just HAVE to share it with someone RIGHT NOW - yeah... I got that :-)

Will try to keep it brief,

The other morning, Jeremy asked how he could pray for me that day. We started this 'habit' after watching the 'From this Day Forward' series from Lifechurch.tv. (I really recommend it for ALL married couples!) and I casually said pray for me and my mobile phone habit.

In the peak of the hot day, when Erika sleeps and Daniel (if he is home) is busy playing the Wii - I often sit in my aircon room playing some sort of mobile phone game. I know, not a 'sin' - but still, not the most productive thing I could be doing with my time either. So, I wanted to kick it.

Didn't think much more of it, until that afternoon when Jeremy was home for lunch. We sat in the aircon (it's been HOT here these days!!) and chatted.

While we chatted, I multi-tasked playing my phone. He comments that his 'prayers didn't work' jokingly and we had a giggle. I said I can talk and play at the same time as I'm a good multi-tasker like that. It's a girl thing :-)

That night he wanted to 'fix' my phone, as it's screen is cracked. Has been for a while. Don't ask who cracked it. It's a sore point ;-)

I do believe that he tried really hard to do so, but he woke me later that night saying he had really really broken it. At that point, I didn't care. (He WOKE me remember!!!) But I could tell how genuinely upset and angry at himself he was. Poor boy. I thought my not caring would help. (I also think the whole thing has brought up his deeper feelings... hmm... but more on that another day)

So, yesterday, first day without my phone. WOW! If you want to know if you are addicted to something, take it away!! Eeek! I wonder if they have nicotine patches for mobile phone addicts?

I wondered how my usual texting buddies were, wondered how the school would contact me if there was an emergency, wondered what my bank balance was, wondered how my monsters in the game Leanna and I play together were being fed, wondered how I was going to not Google the ever important question I had.....  How much I rely on that silly thing was CRAZY!

This morning, in quiet time, I decided to get back into "Jesus Calling" again. I had not done this as a morning devotional for about a month now - as someone challenged me that maybe I was listening to too many 'other' voices instead of just Gods word. They thought this was the reason for my inability to enjoy quiet times with God recently, so I had put "Jesus Calling" aside.

CRAZY part, is that I asked Jeremy to get my book for me before he left for his meeting - re-affirming how much he loves me and I love him. Then, next CRAZY is I opened it on where my bookmark was - Jan 11, and read the first line "Trust me by relinquishing control into My hands" ha ha.

The next CRAZY is the note to myself from 2012 which says 'My mobile phone won't charge! Thankyou for taking control Lord :-)" Wow - this jolly phone was an issue for me a year ago too!!!

...and finally, last CRAZY, today's dates reading has lines such as 'Come to me and Rest' / 'When your focus turns away from Me, you grasp for other things' / 'return to Me; regain My presence'

So then, as I step back and see what God has done, once again, by taking my phone, I see how much He also wants me to focus on Him. I see how much He loves me. And by asking Jeremy to pray - I also see Him kinda laughing and saying, "Well, you asked for it!!!" :-D Yes, I did :-D

I have a feeling today's quiet time is going to be awesome....

Thanks for listening xKelly