TGIF

Oh my goodness gracious alive. Or, as Jeffrey would say, "Holy Christian Santa Claus!" (don't ask...)

I can't tell you how thankful I am it's Friday. I absolutely love my job and how I spend Monday - Friday, and most of the time I enjoy the work week just as much as the weekend because I've been learning how to engage God during work and have fun while doing it, but today I'm just so happy to have a weekend coming up.

Last night I got home from work, mentally exhausted, and plopped down on the couch, hoping to rest for 10 minutes before getting up and going for a run. After 5 minutes, at about 9 pm, I pulled myself up off the couch, made a smoothie, drank it, and went to bed. I woke up, still sleepy, at 6:20. This has happened about 4 times in the last 3 weeks (sleeping 12+ hours consecutively). Two weeks ago I blamed it on being sick, which definitely was a factor, now I'm realizing I just need to get more of God because life in general is weighing a little too heavily these days!

There are quite a few impossible situations at work that just need to become possible. That's really the truth in it all...

This morning I read a scripture that was very comforting:
Heb. 2:10 : For it was an act worthy of God that He, for Whose sake and by Whom all things have their existence, in bringing many sons into glory, should make the Pioneer of their salvation perfect - should bring to maturity the human experience necessary to be perfectly equipped for His office as High Priest - through suffering.
Heb. 2:18 : For because He Himself in his humanity has suffered in being tempted, He is able immediately to run to the cry of those who are being tempted and who are therefore being exposed to suffering.

I thought it was very interesting that the suffering Jesus went through was temptation. Of course, the death on the cross seems like enough suffering, but it is always confounding to my pea brain to imagine that Jesus was tempted in every way that I am solely for the purpose of being able to sympathize with me and become a perfect sacrifice. There's so much humility in what he has done, lowering himself just so he can become like us, so that he can die in our place. And even though in every way he is absolutely God, in many ways it is right for us to think of him as being like us so that we will cry out to him in our time of need!! And that's just where I am.. needing help!

So, let that be a comfort to you too! No matter where you are, you're not alone. There is at least 1 person who has felt exactly what you are feeling now.