Open Gate

     Good Morning Again! Except this morning it's 4 AM! 
     It makes me smile the way the Holy Spirit works in my life. I've had a couple of days to finish the second thing that could have gone onto either the "Just Thinking" blog or the "Revealed" one, but I didn't get it done so now here I am in the dark of the early morning getting it typed up before I let myself get caught up in the busyness of the day! Thank You Holy  Spirit! Yes, I am thankful for being woke up at 4 AM, because I don't want to be a person that is so caught up with the things of this world that I miss God's calling to do things that He wants in my life. =) and that actually will lead me into a third article that I need to type up. God reveals and I type-- is the pattern! And hopefully I'll get it typed up before I'm awakened by the Holy Spirit in the early morning to do it!
     The wonderful, thoughtful, mighty man of God that I'm allowed to call my husband has created a corner garden for me in our backyard. It's actually "our garden" but it's to meet a need that I have to grow things! One day while I was weeding around the fence of "our garden" one of our dogs was laying peacefully on the inside of the garden until she realized that I had moved to the outside to pull the weeds from the outer side of the fence. She sat up and looked at me puzzled that I wasn't where she had last seen me and then started to whine, I told her she could come out to me, the gate was open for her. She continued to whine and never even looked at the gate, I had to get up from my work area and go to the gate and call her out through the open gate! 
     God showed me that is often how people are. They go about their lives until they realize they aren't happy, then they start looking for Him and whining, oops, I mean praying? Instead of looking around to see where they are and how to get back close to God they just start praying for Him to do something!
     Hopefully we can learn from our mistakes and not sit in our situation and whine, but look for where God is(did He move while we weren't paying attention?) and then move ourselves to Him, not just sit and whine and wait for Him to come show us the open gate!