Kristina is about to run herself into a frenzy. She is running track and has practice three days a week. She is an assistant stage manager for her theatre department for the play Grease which is set to go on stage in May. She is in an Easter drama at our church and then she has her normal classes, homework, weekly Bible study and church. She runs, runs, runs. Every day all day. And, since she doesn't have a license I run, run, run with her.
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She is having to divide her time up each afternoon in between track and theatre rehearsal. For the most part her theatre teacher has been very understanding and has worked really hard with her on missing rehearsal. Her track coach is not as understanding and can sometimes cause a kink in her plan to do everything at one time.
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Monday afternoon she had just finished track practice when she walked over to a little convenience store that is right across the street from her school waiting on me to come pick her up. She had no more sat down with a cold drink and her friends when two girls from the theatre department came in. They questioned her about missing rehearsal and she simply replied "I will be there on Wednesday" and left it at that. Knowing that she didn't have to explain anything to them. After all, she had talked with the theatre teacher and everything was worked out.
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When she went into her theatre class yesterday her teacher called her into his office and gave her what for. He had been told by these girls that Kristina had skipped rehearsal to hang out at this convenience store with her friends. She tried to explain to him exactly what had happened and what she had done but he didn't want to hear any of it. Kristina said she simply shook her head, said "Yes sir" and went on about her business.
You know, sometimes you walk up on a situation and only hear or see the end and automatically think you know exactly what has happened and you form your own opinion and that is the story that you tell. Sometimes others tell that same twisted story about us. I am notorious for basing an opinion on something I know nothing about and many, many times I have been in hot water because someone else formed an opinion based on what they didn't know.
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I once heard Beth Moore talk about tattling to Jesus. How ridiculous I thought. But, you know, he tells us to do that in 1 Peter 5:7. "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you." You know so many times I want to go to Shane or someone else and just fuss about what this person or that person said or did to me which gives me no result in the end except bitterness. But, when I have dropped to my knees and just tattled to the Lord and told him how my feelings were hurt (he already knows) and how I feel (he already knows) and then all of a sudden he takes my heart and turns it upside down and empties out all that bitterness and I move on. The next time I see that person I don't think twice about how they hurt my feelings. That pain is gone....Jesus took it! We need to run to him with not only the big, heavy burdens but also the small, tiny flecks that cloud our vision and our heart. Those big, heavy burdens aren't what makes us bitter. Trust me! Those go away in time but those small, tiny flecks tend to stack up on our shoulders and before long we have the infamous "chip on our shoulder." They will fill our hearts, cloud our eyes and before you know it we become bitter, resentful and miserable. Cast all your cares upon the Lord....he cares for you!
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She is having to divide her time up each afternoon in between track and theatre rehearsal. For the most part her theatre teacher has been very understanding and has worked really hard with her on missing rehearsal. Her track coach is not as understanding and can sometimes cause a kink in her plan to do everything at one time.
.
Monday afternoon she had just finished track practice when she walked over to a little convenience store that is right across the street from her school waiting on me to come pick her up. She had no more sat down with a cold drink and her friends when two girls from the theatre department came in. They questioned her about missing rehearsal and she simply replied "I will be there on Wednesday" and left it at that. Knowing that she didn't have to explain anything to them. After all, she had talked with the theatre teacher and everything was worked out.
.
When she went into her theatre class yesterday her teacher called her into his office and gave her what for. He had been told by these girls that Kristina had skipped rehearsal to hang out at this convenience store with her friends. She tried to explain to him exactly what had happened and what she had done but he didn't want to hear any of it. Kristina said she simply shook her head, said "Yes sir" and went on about her business.
You know, sometimes you walk up on a situation and only hear or see the end and automatically think you know exactly what has happened and you form your own opinion and that is the story that you tell. Sometimes others tell that same twisted story about us. I am notorious for basing an opinion on something I know nothing about and many, many times I have been in hot water because someone else formed an opinion based on what they didn't know.
.
I once heard Beth Moore talk about tattling to Jesus. How ridiculous I thought. But, you know, he tells us to do that in 1 Peter 5:7. "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you." You know so many times I want to go to Shane or someone else and just fuss about what this person or that person said or did to me which gives me no result in the end except bitterness. But, when I have dropped to my knees and just tattled to the Lord and told him how my feelings were hurt (he already knows) and how I feel (he already knows) and then all of a sudden he takes my heart and turns it upside down and empties out all that bitterness and I move on. The next time I see that person I don't think twice about how they hurt my feelings. That pain is gone....Jesus took it! We need to run to him with not only the big, heavy burdens but also the small, tiny flecks that cloud our vision and our heart. Those big, heavy burdens aren't what makes us bitter. Trust me! Those go away in time but those small, tiny flecks tend to stack up on our shoulders and before long we have the infamous "chip on our shoulder." They will fill our hearts, cloud our eyes and before you know it we become bitter, resentful and miserable. Cast all your cares upon the Lord....he cares for you!
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