Last Monday morning, after the kids had been dropped off at school, I turned the radio off and enjoyed a quiet “conversation” with my Savior. We do that a lot – “talk” in the car. After praises and prayers, I turned the radio back on and cranked it up loud, enjoying “The Voice of Truth”, by Casting Crowns. During an instrumental part, a thought came to me as quick as lightening.
I’m going to start keeping a prayer journal.
As quickly as I thought that, I was interrupted by a negative.
That’s dumb, I can’t possibly write down everything I need to pray about – there’s so much I pray about throughout a day! I might forget to write down something important!
If there’s one big thing that I have to work on, it’s definitely the self-doubt. I doubt everything, at some point, and I do not like that. Not. One. Bit.
The welcomed distraction of the lyrics came flowing back to focus and I didn’t think about the journal idea again…until…
At home that evening, as I was working in the kitchen and our youngest son was at the table studying for his spelling test, he said to me out of the blue, “Mom, you know that new Moleskine dad gave me this week? I made it into a prayer journal.”
———— Wait for it.
——————-Wait for it.
————————–Wait for it.
In an instant, I knew that my Savior was confirming His presence with me earlier that morning and showing me that I don’t have to think twice about that silly self-doubt. He liked my idea!
So I did the same thing – I told my son what a neat idea that was and how happy I know God is over his choosing to use his new Star Wars Moleskine that way.
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