Blah, Blah, Blah!!!: The Snuggie

Sunday, January 10, 2010

The Snuggie

The Snuggie. Who hasn't heard of it? This blanket with sleeves has caused an overnight sensation in our country. And I must confess, at 2:30 a.m. on the mornings I can't sleep, that Snuggie commercial has tried to lured me in on more than one occasion!

Yesterday I needed a Snuggie...at least, that's what I thought I needed. I woke up nice and early, hoping against hope that I would finally be feeling better and could go with my husband and son to pick up our daughter in Mobile. I wanted that trip. I longed for that trip. But, alas, it was not meant to be. If anything, I woke up feeling even worse. Ears still congested, but now with a touch of dizziness and upset stomach. I pulled the covers over my head and cried. Oh, well. I said my good-byes to the men in my life and returned to my new BFF - the recliner.

But all day, I drifted in and out of it, feeling worse by the hour. By suppertime I was beside myself. Not only was I sick, I started to unravel emotionally as well. I can't explain it, but for awhile there I really lost it. And what did I do first? I wrapped myself up in a comforter and curled back into the recliner.

Today I'm feeling better emotionally - not so much physically. And it has given me time to think about comforters, and Snuggies, and things that we use to try to get us to that "snuggly" place.
Today, I still have the comforter around me, but I have THE Comforter, as well. Yes, I know He was with me yesterday too, but yesterday I took my eyes off of Him and He let me just wallow around for a while. But today, I just went to climb in His lap and let Him love on me for a while.

He brought back scripture to me about the many ways He wants to comfort me. In fact, I even did a word search on the ways the word "comfort" is used in throughout the Bible...I feel another topic for women's retreat coming on!

Corrie Ten Boom used to say, "Don't wrestle! Just nestle!" So that's what I'm doing today...nestling in the arms of my Saviour. And you know what? It's soooo much better than any blanket with sleeves!

"May your unfailing love be my comfort..." Psalm 119

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One thing we may be sure of, however: For the believer all pain has meaning; all adversity is profitable. There is no question that adversity is difficult. It usually takes us by surprise and seems to strike where we are most vulnerable. To us it often appears completely senseless and irrational, but to God none of it is either senseless or irrational. He has a purpose in every pain He brings or allows in our lives. We can be sure that in some way He intends it for our profit and His glory.
--Jerry Bridges

God is doing a greater work in us, and that can only come as we learn to trust Him no matter how dark the days and sleepless the nights. And it is only as we have been through the darkness with Him that what we know with our heads slides down into our hearts, and our hearts no longer demand answers. The “Why?” becomes unimportant when we believe that God can and will redeem the pain for our good and his glory. . . . When I put the sovereignty of God beside His unfailing love, my heart can rest.
--Verdell Davis

Our circumstances are not an accurate reflection of God's goodness. Whether life is good or bad, God's goodness, rooted in His character, is the same.
--Helen Grace Lescheid

All of us have wondered at times why God doesn't do more to fix our problems. But our human eyes often fail to see that God isn't rushing to change our circumstances because he is concerned with a much more serious problem -- our character. While you struggle with the woes of this world, God's main occupation is preparing you for the world to come. The focus of what God is doing in your life takes place in you, not around you.
--Andy Stanley, in "Like A Rock"

There is no circumstance, no trouble, no testing, that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ, right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart.
--Alan Redpath

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this: irritations get into his shell . . . . and when he cannot get rid of them, he uses the irritations to do the loveliest thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only prescription: make a pearl . . . . And it takes faith and love to do it.
--Harry Emerson Fosdick

What a difference it makes when a trial comes, to see in it not the hand of an avenger, but the loving discipline of a father and the gentle admonition of a mother! God would not have us feel even the shadow of His anger. Judgment hardens the spirit and God never wants to break the spirit of His obedient child, but to win us by His love and transform us by the gentleness. Beloved, let us ever look upon our trials in the tender light of the Father’s love. It is not the token of His displeasure, but the very pledge of His jealous love, a love so inexorable that it will not let us miss His holiest and best.
--A. B. Simpson

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