S.U.N.D.A.Y

sunday is always a day that you looking forward to, especially the opportunity to go to church and worship God. sunday is somehow very different from monday to saturday.  you always started your week with monday blue, action packed tuesday to thursday where you are mostly fully focus on your work/traveling, on friday you starting to wind down with some baking and cooking, and a saturday of total relaxation, sometime free and easy, otherwise something for just the two of you, or with the family and occasionally with friends.

this sunday is somewhat different, not because there's some forms of celebration but the sermon is simply simple truth with three key messages, for the secret of breakthrough:

• priorities - you need to follow the example of Jesus, who gave his very first seconds/minutes/hours of the day to God. you know the simple truth, if you start the morning right, your entire day will be amazing and great.  for you it could be a simple greetings that you learned from benny hin, a greeting as "good morning Father, good morning Son, good morning Holy Spirit", it could be a few sentences of prayers and thanksgiving if you are not in the hurry.
• dare to pay a price - when we are willing to pay the price God will compensate us abundantly. the same truth as "no risk, no gain" only in this context your reward is guaranteed because you are paying a price for the things of God
• seize the opportunity - opportunity may not be repeated again and may be just once in the lifetime.

today is also your pastors' wedding anniversary, there's a simple celebration at the church and follow by a meal of which you didn't eat because you have plan with another sister to go to her home for dinner and meet up with her adoption mother for a conversation.  you brought along a home baked crumbly creamy chicken pie (this will be another story).

 

you got to speak to her mother, she's very open with her experience although it has been some forty years and no longer applicable to your situation and the adoption procedure that you are in. he got to ask a lot of questions about adoption, about his uncertainty and his doubts.  it was clear to you what is making him doubting during the interview. at the end of the dinner in this sister's house, you know that there may be unfulfilled prophecies, but the adoption route that you have taken seem to be moving forward. you have come thus far in the adoption procedure, let not the little doubt shakes the whole thing up. after all if it's God's will for you to adopt a child then the door will remain open.  until then you never know, but one thing for sure, you know what your priorities are, you got to be dare to pay the price and seize the opportunity (literally only once).  it's how amazing the simple truth that you have just heard in the afternoon practically being put into the situation.