Praise

I felt convicted as I had my quiet time this morning to publish the deeds of my heavenly Father. You might remember awhile back I posted Psalm 96. Well, God brought it to my attention again and I will not hesitate to "tell everyone about the amazing things he does". But first:

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Sing a new song to the Lord! Let the whole earth sing to the Lord! Sing to the Lord; praise his name. Each day proclaim the good news that he saves. Publish his glorious deeds among the nations. Tell everyone about the amazing things he does. Great is the Lord! He is most worthy of our praise!

I was praying on Monday morning that God would help me find some friends. I took it a step further (spawned by the Utmost for His Highest devotional that morning) and asked that He really show me His power through this. I wanted to see Him working and know that He heard me and would answer my prayer.

Well, we headed to the library around 4 that afternoon and we were sitting next to two women about my age with little ones. I eavesdropped overheard them talking and they both had just moved here! They were talking all about the things they had done so far. Well, I am not one to just go busting in on strangers' conversation but I really felt like it would be stupid for me not to. So I casually walked by and said something like, "Hey, we just moved here and it sounds like you guys did too!" Well, we ended up having a short but sweet conversation and they referred me to a website called Meetup.com. Go check it out yourself but it is a wonderful resource. So I went on the next day and found this group of Bloomington moms and they basically just get together and hang out, talk, and play with their kids. Playgroup in other words. I ended up finding the women I talked with in the group and sent them messages. They were very nice and welcoming and were glad I was going to start going to their meetup events. Waalaa! God at work ladies and gentlemen. I would never normally go searching around the internet for some source of community but it turns out this is a very up and coming site that is so cool. It took observing two women my age AND the fact that I had just prayed about it that morning to take the plunge and do something I had never done before. (Random footnote: you can find any kind of group in any city across the U.S. It's really handy--go check it out!)

And ever since I prayed that prayer, God has brought to my attention how many people I actually do know already. I seem to bump into my neighbors all over town.....or people I've met at the YMCA. I'm beginning to feel.....well, not so new anymore which is a very good feeling.

God has been so gracious to us and I want everyone to know that.

I guess that's it!